So, what Sia Tower tested most was how well a person understood themself.
As long as someone knew themself well enough, the first time they encountered that inexplicable desire, they could basically tell whether it came from their true heart or had been misled by outside influences.
But most people in the world probably understood themselves the least.
They would naturally treat those desires as their own thoughts and act on them. Their eventual fate needed no further mention.
Although he had failed to notice the abnormality in his surroundings immediately... Hill had always been a little willful.
When doing things, he did not care much about what outsiders thought.
So, when he had first arrived at Sia Tower, he had done a few things on a whim that he normally would not have done.
Normally, the odds of him helping Aislin would have been three to seven... with three being the higher estimate.
Yet he had acted without hesitation.
That simply did not fit Hill's usually steady style.
Once his Mage Tower had been completed, during his daily self-reflection, Hill discovered what had influenced him and caused him to meddle a little more than usual.
Desire Dust... though it was called dust, was actually more like an intangible presence dissolved into the air. Not everyone could detect it.
It had already become the foundation of Sia Tower. Even those who remained wary could not reject the existence of such a thing.
Even Glasya herself, though she could release it, could only decide the concentration of Desire Dust after releasing it. She could not control what those traces of aura did.
So, even Hill had not noticed that anything was wrong with it at first... because the existence of Desire Dust itself was harmless to him.
Though Hill was a