Loneliness

The Icebound Snowfield was bitterly cold. Through the biting wind, a gigantic three-headed monster spread its wings, casting a shadow across the sky.

Whoosh.

The monster suddenly descended. Its three heads lowered, and Merlin slowly stepped down from one of them.

"Wizard Merlin, this is the Wilson Family's home..." Xing Luo began, but Merlin raised a hand.

"No need to explain. I know. This is Wilson Castle..."

Merlin gazed at the familiar castle. He could never forget that he had arrived in this world here, at Wilson Castle. Even after the family moved to the Black Moon Kingdom, they had rebuilt it in the image of the original castle in Blackwater City.

The castle before him looked almost exactly as it had back then.

Now, however, Rune Formations protected it. Xing Luo said, "Wizard Merlin, the Wilson Family is no ordinary family anymore. Wizard Philinda has become a master of Rune Formations, no less skilled than the masters in our Dark Spirit Domain. She's set up formations all around the castle."

The Rune Heart Seal on Merlin's forehead flickered. In an instant, he understood the formations around Wilson Castle, and a memory of Philinda surfaced in his mind.

Back then, Philinda had not even been a Spellcaster. She had been chosen for the Wilson Family's first group of trainees only because she had the aptitude. At the time, she had shown just a little talent for Runology. He had never expected her to become a master of Rune Formations.

The Dark Spirit Domain, after all, specialized in Runology. For Philinda to have become a master of Rune Formations, her command of it could not be slight.

Hum.

The arrival of the Three-Headed Demon Dragon soon drew the castle's attention. A dragon that enormous would shock anyone.

A group of knights