On the upper floors of the Mage Tower.
While constructing a directional Magic Array leading to the Floating Island, Aistena told Kroya, "Archmage Eurydice once lived on this Floating Island.
"It covers about thirty thousand hectares and should have a complete set of estate facilities. Most importantly, it has a vein of Void Luminary Crystals."
An intricate Magic Array took shape beneath his brush-he wielded that enormous brush as though painting a picture, tracing out the array's lines.
Kroya glanced at it. With his current mastery of spatial magic, he could naturally tell that this Magic Array seemed to point somewhere outside the Main Plane.
"This looks like an interplanar Magic Array. Is the Floating Island outside this world?" he asked curiously.
"Yes." A light sweat broke out on Aistena's forehead. Drawing an array like this was still rather strenuous for him.
He explained, "The airspace containing the Floating Island is outside the Main Plane, in the Outer Astral Region surrounding it. You can even see the stars beyond it directly."
"That Outer Astral Region is boundless, and countless unusual species from beyond the Main Plane live there. Even great mages can't travel through it freely.
"All we can do is locate the Floating Island's coordinates and construct a teleportation Magic Array to get there."
"I see." Kroya nodded. That matched what he had learned.
After learning that he would be getting a Floating Island, he had specifically asked the angel about it and obtained some information about the Outer Astral Region.
If the Main Plane were an egg suspended in the Astral Plane, the Outer Astral Region would be the membrane around the yolk, while the white would be the Divine Kingdoms inhabited by the gods.
Of course, that did not mean the Outer Astral Region was subject to