Dragon King Calendar year 421, in an upscale restaurant somewhere in the Magic Principality-the Ranoa Kingdom.
The afternoon sunlight streamed through the spotless windows, casting warm patches of light across tables draped in white linen.
Cui Ciyou propped his chin on one hand, his slightly unfocused gaze resting on the pedestrians outside, while his thoughts had long since drifted thousands of miles away.
The hardest part was already behind him.
He recalled those harrowing days on the Begaritt Continent: the anxiety of searching for Roxy, their experiences clearing the Displacement Labyrinth, and North God III.
Roxy's brush with death still left him shaken.
But whatever had happened, the outcome had been good.
Not only had he found Roxy, but he had also obtained the Hydra's scales.
Now that they were back in the Northern Territory, the rest of the journey home was hardly an issue.
In just a few days, they had made it safely back to the familiar Ranoa University of Magic.
Once he could relax, certain thoughts he had temporarily set aside began to surface again.
Paul... Cui Ciyou silently repeated the name.
Earlier, Cui Ciyou had considered using Clairvoyance to search for Paul's location on the Begaritt Continent.
Paul? The man was one of the few people in this world he could call a friend.
Unfortunately, he had soon been forced to abandon the idea because of the magic power it required.
Clairvoyance was one of the twelve demon eyes possessed by the Demon Eye Emperor, Kishirika Kishirisu.
At its core, it was an extremely advanced form of spatial magic that allowed the caster to see distant places.
In theory, with enough magic power and sufficient concentration of mental power, one could take in the entire Six-Faced World.
That was not merely theoretical, either. The Demon Eye