Solomon's Caress

Dago entered his room, stood quietly before the window for a while, then drew the curtains, sealing the light tightly outside.

After finishing all that, he walked to the center of the living room, took out the Dream-Reflecting Phantomglass Orb from his storage ring, and gently placed it on the table.

Dago poured a large amount of spiritual power into it. Transparent ripples spread from within the crystal orb, a tranquil purple glow blossomed outward, and countless flickering points of light emerged as everything around him receded.

He now stood beneath a purple expanse as vast and mysterious as a starry sky, recalling what Bernal had told him.

"Melville's legendary deeds predated the Mirror Forest."

Then the owner of the Mysterious Garden probably was not Melville, but merely a powerful Mirror Forest wizard who had obtained Melville's Dream-Reflecting Phantomglass Orb.

Thinking this, Dago reached out and gently touched a flickering point of light beneath the deep purple night. In an instant, the scene before him changed completely.

He found himself in a vast world of ice and snow. Endless snowfields surrounded him, with steep glaciers and majestic ice cliffs in the distance, while gorgeous auroras swayed ceaselessly overhead.

Dago stared at it all in a daze. As he touched more points of light around him, the scene before his eyes changed again.

He suddenly appeared atop a scorching volcano. Before him was a crater spewing thick sulfurous smoke and flames, beneath his feet flowed molten lava, and all around him stood volcanoes on the verge of eruption. As far as the eye could see, it was a completely crimson world of magma.

Dago kept touching the points of light, and the surrounding scenes kept changing.

Sometimes, he appeared in a glowing forest filled with dreamlike colors. Giant luminous plants stood