The Old Tradition of the Ring of Law

In an instant, the pupils in Dago's eyes trembled.

He lowered his head and stared blankly at what he held, countless thoughts rolling wildly through his mind.

Melville! Dago had seen that great name in the Forest Library! Melville, the legendary wizard who had been renowned throughout the Ringworld Exploration Era!

This was something Melville had left behind? The owner of the Mystery Garden was actually him!

Just as Dago was overwhelmed with shock, enormous and sustained fluctuations of energy suddenly came from outside. The fluctuations were so abnormal that they surged past Dago in waves like a tide, pulling him out of the dreamlike scene within the Dream-Reflecting Phantomglass Orb.

Everything that had been distant from reality returned, and he quickly put away the Dream-Reflecting Phantomglass Orb in his hand.

Dago looked toward the room's window, which had already been filled with all kinds of flashing lights. He hurried over and pushed it open, only to be stunned once more by the sight outside.

On the tower belonging to the Silver Tower of the Thorn Ring, one enormous and complex rune pattern after another was lighting up, blooming with dazzling radiance.

The floating islands surrounding the tower had also activated their Rune Magic Arrays almost in unison. As though answering the suddenly blazing silver-white tower, they continued to flash with alternating bright and dim light.

Powerful waves of spiritual force belonging to First Circle and Second-Ring Wizards surged into the sky and were released without restraint. Mixed with the light of countless glowing Rune Magic Arrays, the fluctuations seemed to be forming an ancient and colossal wizard ritual—or welcoming the awakening and descent of some exalted existence.

But that was far from all! Dago also saw the other three towers farther away in the city undergoing similar changes, releasing