Hymn of Chains

As countless Shadow Nightmare Realm monsters within this twisted tower were slain, surging power rushed toward Charles.

Back when he was an apprentice, Charles had often killed these Shadow Nightmare monsters to increase his mental strength and restore his magic power.

But now that he had reached the rank of a sixth-circle wizard,

killing so many monsters barely increased his power at all.

By contrast, this twisted tower, originally at least dozens of times larger than the one in Isata in the real world,

had now been completely destroyed, reduced to a heap of rubble.

Smoke and dust billowed freely.

After casually inspecting the ruins, Charles continued onward, exploring this unknown world.

The Shadow Nightmare Realm was immensely vast, far larger than the Wizard World.

At least, that was how it appeared from the void.

Charles did not teleport, but flew through the sky instead.

Before long, a strange sound of wind reached his ears.

It stirred up some unpleasant memories.

When he had been an apprentice, encountering this wind had nearly killed him.

Even his eyelids had borne wounds that looked as though they had been stitched shut.

But when the wind now blew over Charles, it had no effect whatsoever.

Waves of clamor surged toward Charles like a disturbance of the mind.

Charles caught a strand of strange wind and used the power of rules to analyze it.

A flicker of surprise soon appeared in his eyes.

This wind was actually a creature of the Shadow Nightmare Realm as well.

Its energy level was not low, either.

With a casual grasp, he continuously compressed that strand of wind until it finally condensed into a tiny eye of wind.

At that moment, the wind seemed to sense terror and began emitting strange sounds of supplication.

Though he could not