The Atlantis Empire.
Dunn returned to the imperial palace looking exhausted.
Being subjected to Alice's fury just now had been far more tiring than fighting an Abyss Lord!
Even for the Heaven's Mandate-level Tower of Life, opening a spatial passage from inside the Storm Sea to the Old World...
Was no easy task.
First, it had to expend vast amounts of magic power to stabilize the space in the Storm Sea region.
It was only because Atlantis covered such a vast area that the Storm Sea separating Atlantis from the waters of the Old World was not particularly large.
Otherwise, even someone like Alice could not have done it.
Then it had to open a spatial passage within that barely stabilized space.
The whole process would instantly drain even a Legendary Wizard's magic power dry!
Originally, this had merely been a fallback Dunn had prepared in case something unexpected happened.
As it turned out, something unexpected really had happened, and he had used that fallback!
Alice had nothing to say about that.
But!
After the spatial passage opened, Dunn had kept rambling on with Augustine, then even wasted time extending an invitation to Lamia!
Every second of that could drain an entire Legendary Wizard's magic power!
After everything Dunn had done, the Tower of Life's magic power pool, which had only just begun to recover, had run completely dry!
That had sent the socially anxious, good-tempered Alice into an outright rage, and she had berated Dunn for hours!
Dunn had been forced to humble himself and spend hours soothing Alice with gentle words!
After all, the magic power pool that the Tower of Life had spent over ten thousand years building up had been drained dry since Alice met Dunn!
Thinking back on it, Dunn also felt that he might