"I did try to get him to pay off what he owed sooner." Hill shook his head helplessly. "But it didn't work.
The real benefit Russell received was his talent. That wasn't something he could repay in just a few installments.
Still, the entanglement had lessened somewhat.
So, I planned to have them build a Starry Sky Mage Tower and live in the stretch of starry sky between this star and the moon.
That way, they would still be connected to the world, while avoiding a lot of unnecessary trouble."
For example, some newly born child of fortune who liked wandering around might suddenly show up at Russell's doorstep and knock.
Of course, if the World Will truly wanted to drag Russell into things, some child of fortune might suddenly use a major teleportation spell and head straight into the sky.
But that would consume no small amount of energy.
And the greater the expenditure, the more Russell would have to repay.
But there was one prerequisite: he couldn't end up paying with his own life while settling that debt.
This was where Lathander's Chosen came in handy.
The World Will would scheme against anyone but him.
It wasn't necessarily because it truly feared Lathander. Rather, once his Chosen was added in, the amount of information that needed to be calculated might increase tenfold... If it had that much energy, who couldn't it scheme against?
No matter how tenacious a World Will was, it wouldn't do something so unprofitable.
So long as everyone understood that Russell might seek help from this Dawn Chosen if he felt he could no longer endure, they would do everything possible to keep Russell from reaching that point.
Lathander immediately understood what Hill meant... and deeply understood why Hill had placed his student at the