At the foot of the Walso Mountains in western Ereno, north of the Imperial First Military Academy—a fortress of steel—stood Eisenkranz Castle, maintained in the style of a medieval fortress. Deep within the principal's office atop the 124th floor of the Stargazing Spire.
The otherwise unremarkable study had now been replaced by a circular space known to countless people as the Star Domain.
A tall, burly figure stood at the center of the space, draped in a dark gray scholar's robe and wearing an enormous deep-blue wizard's hat that nearly engulfed his entire head.
At his feet sat a miniature astrolabe, slowly rotating amid the flow of tangible mana that drifted like gauze.
At that moment, as though sensing something, the figure paused slightly in his act of drawing upon Astral Power with mana. Then he raised an aged index finger and lightly tapped the space before him.
"Buzz!"
As ripples like water spread from the conversion of mana, the circular space formed from countless magical runes instantly vanished. Like a photograph fading at accelerated speed, the space containing innumerable pieces of forbidden magical knowledge was transferred elsewhere through a method that was nearly miraculous.
What replaced it was the study's original appearance.
The figure then slowly raised a hand and removed the Crown of Omniscience, which had been spewing all manner of incomprehensible words.
Before it could go berserk under the influx of Astral Power and break free of his restraints, he summoned an illusory doorway. Countless chains condensed from mana bound it tightly, and amid its curses, he sealed it away in another dimension once more.
Only then could the sunlight outside penetrate the Crown Tier Domain, which was filled with spatial and Transcendent Tier magical factors, and shine into the room again, revealing his true appearance.
He