Starry Town.
The Titan puppet Aioetes still stood beneath the astral curtain the Titans had once built to replace the true starry sky.
Through the Starry Veil, he could clearly see the radiant Divine Kingdom, as well as the sleeping Light within it, scorched by the flames of faith and growing ever weaker.
On the other side lay an ocher realm filled with all kinds of minerals and magic plants, chaotic yet extraordinarily varied. Another figure slept within it.
He watched those two realms. The magic-powered instrument beside him immediately lit up and began recording his words:
"Record: the Father of Light's power is being affected by the flames of his followers' faith and gradually squeezed out of him. He is unwilling to grant his power to his followers, but their faith is forcing him."
"Record: the prophesied day of destruction draws ever closer."
"Record: the earth will not withstand the tremendous impact of Light's fall, approximately equivalent to casting the legendary spell 'Prominence Arc' upon the human kingdoms of the Semrio Continent."
"Record: Archmage Eurydice of the Astral Council has arrived to assist."
This was a top secret known only to him and his creators. His purpose was to observe and record the changes taking place in this world.
Even as the Astral Council's mages built tower after tower around him, encroaching on his territory until the Starry Veil array gradually became today's Starry Town, not a single mage knew his true mission.
Even the legendary mages of the Astral Council knew nothing of it. They assumed their Titan friends had built him to help maintain the world's stability and serve as a guide.
Watching Light's steadily weakening Divine Kingdom, with its neighbor eyeing it like a hungry hyena, he suddenly recalled something his creator had once said when