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“So this is the place,” the Tower Master murmured.
He was flying toward a mountain range at the far edge of the continent. As he drew near, the outline of his destination came into view. A vast and towering line of peaks rose from the land, their full width impossible to grasp at a glance. Every ridge and slope lay buried under snow.
This was the Alphra Range. It was one of the five largest mountain ranges on the continent, a place any geographer would name without hesitation.
Reports of frequent earthquakes in the region had reached the Mage Tower, so he had come to investigate. Under normal circumstances, there would have been no need for him personally to move. If it had been an ordinary tectonic disturbance, his disciples would have managed the investigation and cleanup.
However, this time was different. The Alphra Range lay in one of the most remote corners of the world. No one lived nearby. Even the closest village sat so far away that, by planetary standards, it might as well have been another land.
Yet the quakes from Alphra had reached that distant settlement. Something was happening here on the scale of the entire continent. That was why the Tower Master himself had left his desk and taken to the sky.
“Earthquakes in the Alphra Range…,” he muttered as he flew.
A few years ago, he had examined the ley lines of Alphra himself. At that time, there had been no issues at all. If anything, the foundations had seemed exceptionally stable, the sort of...
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