Aistena hurried to his mentor's Mage Tower-a tower the Mage Association provided for Archmages of level six and above to cultivate in.
As he entered, the Tower Spirit spoke:
"Apprentice Aistena, Lady Celesty awaits you beside the Water Elemental Plane fragment on the top floor. Please take one step forward."
Already familiar with his mentor's ways, Aistena hurried to comply, asking along the way, "How is my mentor's mood today?"
The Tower Spirit spoke in a boy's clear, pure voice. "Lady Celesty is in a very good mood today."
"Oh, that's good."
As it spoke, a magic array traced out in magic runes rose beneath Aistena's feet. It was a short-range teleportation array.
Generally, Mage Towers had no visible passageways. Each floor was an independent space, accessible only through magic arrays controlled by the Tower Spirit.
This ensured the greatest possible security and privacy for the Mage Tower.
After the magic array's light flashed, Aistena arrived in a strange world filled with cubes of water floating in the air.
Both the sky and the ground here were clear water, and countless strange, pale-blue narcissus flowers grew in the waters before him.
Slender, emerald leaves framed layers upon layers of pale-blue petals, which clustered around central stamens shaped like beautiful women.
They resembled peerless beauties dressed in lovely yet exceedingly heavy, elaborate princess gowns.
These blue narcissus flowers covered almost the entire world, blooming freely and with exceptional beauty within this little realm.
A gentle breeze brushed past, and the stamens seemed to truly dance.
The place where Aistena stood was probably the only patch in the entire planar fragment where anyone could stand.
He waited silently.
Before long, a stream of water suddenly took human form, becoming an exceptionally tall woman.
Her mage's robe looked like soft gauze woven from