Backlund, Empress Borough, inside House Hall's luxurious villa.
Having just returned home from the New Year banquet, Audrey used fatigue as an excuse and entered her bedroom.
"Thank Her Majesty the Queen for streamlining this year's New Year ball. Otherwise, I would have had to risk sneaking out of Sodela Palace and rushing to Osses Square in Cherwood Borough.
"Although Mr. The Tower was covering for me at the ball, so there probably wouldn't have been much of a problem... I truly didn't want Father and my brother to misunderstand because of this."
After muttering to herself for a few moments, Audrey first took a blue Cloak and draped it over herself. Then, she took a palm-sized notebook from the Backpack on Susie's body. Its cover looked hard, bronze-green, and rather ancient.
It was Leymano's Spellbook, which she had rented from Miss Magician.
Audrey first opened one of its pages and poured Spirituality into it, creating an illusion of herself on the bed as a precaution.
Then, she flipped back several pages and used the Record ability on them to create a Teleportation Gate.
Only then did Audrey take a deep breath and, together with the golden-haired dog carrying a Backpack, pass through the circular gate that seemed to have been outlined in flames.
Osses Square was located in Cherwood Borough. Back when Saint Wind Cathedral had still been the headquarters of the Church of Storms, the then-Hierophant Osses had built this square, capable of holding more than thirty thousand people, for large-scale religious events.
Seen from above, the square resembled a keyhole. Two semicircular colonnades formed by four rows of Doric columns made up a massive oval.
It covered roughly 300 mu. At its center stood a towering obelisk, with a fountain on each side.
—300 mu was