The Magic Library now presented a scene of devastation, like ruins swaying in the wind.
Shattered marble floated through the air like startled birds.
The white stone fragments collided with each other, resembling broken pearls swirling in the sky.
After Henie's disappearance, the magic books seemed to have lost their restraints, once again dancing freely in the air.
Like flocks of birds soaring through the boundless sky, they released the magic recorded within their pages.
The broken marble pieces hung suspended, drifting in the air, with white stone fragments colliding and rebounding endlessly within this space.
Without Henie present, the magic books had devolved into chaos once again. They resumed their free flight through the sky, releasing their recorded spells into the vast space.
Some even formed a circle, revolving around a shattered bookshelf, as if performing an elegant dance.
Half-broken wooden stairs, completely collapsed bookshelves, and the already shattered massive domed ceiling...
Their fragments floated in the air like wandering ghosts, ultimately mixing together to form a meandering river flowing across the sky.
Heim Horn was extremely anxious, pacing back and forth before the library like an ant on a hot pan, his brows deeply furrowed.
Beside him lay the silver-white magic book, quietly.
Magical power flowed like a gentle stream across its cover, with silver patterns slowly wandering across the book's surface.
The anxious Heim Horn's thoughts were in complete disarray as he stared at the silver-white book, constantly contemplating countermeasures.
Originally, he and Cocotte were considering how to rescue Henie, who was trapped within the book.
After all, the Deep Library was unlike other areas of the library.
For mages who entered without having the qualifications to study magic, if they recklessly intruded...
Due to insufficient knowledge reserves and wisdom, only one outcome awaited them.
They would lose all their talent and ultimately become mindless fools.
But now, there was an even more important matter requiring his personal attention.
Due to the Goddess of Justice's appearance, the entire Sky City was in a state of heightened excitement.
This news spread through Endymion like a hurricane.
Even those mages focused on their research were drawn in by this wave of enthusiasm, leaving their spaces to join this grand celebration.
Regarding the descent of the Goddess of Justice, opinions varied widely.
Some believed it was her way of testing humanity's attitude, while others thought the orthodox following of the Goddess of Justice was hidden within Endymion.
Their Mage Council might be the true church of the Goddess of Justice.
Although these theories seemed quite absurd, for these mages, they would rather believe the goddess truly existed.
The more mages learned, the stronger their reverence for mysterious powers became.
Moreover, Endymion had many mages with diverse backgrounds.
Because Endymion gathered mages from various races and nations, this made the Sky City more prosperous and diverse.
Except for mages like Viktor, who came from the Karensia Empire.
The Empire's situation was special, as almost no one worshipped deities there, given the Empire's strict supremacy.
Within the Empire, religious followers of any form were quickly suppressed as cults.
As for science?
Speaking of science to mages might seem rather bizarre.
But these weren't the main points.
Heim Horn understood clearly that this incident had caused unexpectedly large ripples.
As a council member, he knew very well that their council had no connection to the Goddess of Justice.
Their council had nothing to do with the Goddess of Justice.
Although when the council was first established, it did rely on firm justice and noble morals.
But that was the council's justice,
Not the obsessive justice of the Goddess of Justice.
The Goddess of Justice's descent upon Endymion led many mages to mistakenly believe Endymion was the orthodox church.
This needed to be refuted.
Heim Horn's face was as hard as a stone statue, believing it necessary to personally step forward and clarify these misunderstandings.
As for why the Goddess of Justice suddenly descended here, he already had his suspicions.
He had no way of knowing why Viktor stole that counterfeit scale, but undoubtedly, this matter must be related to Viktor.
Heim Horn's face grew solemn as he turned to look at the silver-white magic book in the air, instructing Cocotte:
"I'll leave Henie's matter to you."
Cocotte was stunned for a few seconds when she suddenly heard a task falling on her shoulders.
Her mind raced, and her eyes suddenly widened:
"Eh? You want me to go?"
Heim Horn replied:
"I was planning to have you go to the Deep Library anyway."
He paused briefly: "Henie must be rescued from the book, at any cost."
Not just because Henie was brought by Viktor, but considering Henie's own abilities and knowledge.
She would be very helpful to the council.
Moreover, becoming a third-tier mage in just three months - this fact alone was enough to cause a sensation.
And the council would absolutely not stand by idly while one of their own was in danger.
Cocotte understood this reasoning. Although her face showed some reluctance, regardless of anything else, the trapped person was Henie.
She had to rescue Henie from the book.
Heim Horn's form began rapidly flickering in the air, surrounded by countless illusory copies of himself.
The next second, those phantoms completely shattered and disappeared, taking Heim Horn with them.
Cocotte gritted her teeth and reluctantly walked to the side of the silver-white book.
In truth, she wasn't familiar with the library, as Heim Horn had always been its manager.
Heim Horn was very familiar with everything in the Magic Library, even though he was a fourth-tier mage.
As the library's manager, he still had the qualifications to enter the Deep Library.
She had never entered the Deep Library before, and didn't even know what it looked like inside.
"Ah... I really should have visited at least once before..."
In any case, now that Henie was in crisis, Cocotte regretted being so lazy before.
She reached out her hand, touching the book with its flowing white patterns.
This book was the 'door' to the [Deep Library].
The book seemed to sense the fifth-tier mage aura on Cocotte, and an eye quickly formed on its cover, staring intently at her.
The patterns on the cover flowed like streams, opening a gate to an alternate space.
In an instant, with a flash of white light, two phantom silver arms firmly grabbed Cocotte's shoulders, pulling her into the book.
Only white clouds were left floating in the air.
It swayed left and right, seeming to show some anxiety.
After a long silence, the book opened again.
Silver arms reached out, grabbed that white cloud, and threw it into its own giant mouth, transporting it into the book's alternate space.
Afterward, it slowly closed, once again floating back and forth through the library.
As if continuing to search for prey.
.......
Heim Horn kept teleporting through Endymion, penetrating each layer of space, heading straight for the bottom level of the Mage City.
The scenery around him changed instantly before his eyes, but he had no time to appreciate it.
Several phantoms flickered through various levels of the council, like meteors in the sky, constantly approaching this level's ground.
On the first level of Endymion, there was an extremely dreamlike and strange field.
Various bizarre magical creatures floated in mid-air, with lion-headed monsters with long tongues taking advantage of their small bodies to hide between the oddly colored floating clouds.
Constantly breaking spatial rifts connected to various corners of the world, and rampaging flying pigs plunged into the rifts, disappearing from sight.
This was a ruins-like area that seemed to have grown plants, but the natural energy and magic around were extremely dense.
On the first level, countless mages were waiting for Heim Horn.
The moment they saw Heim Horn, those mages became extremely respectful, all bowing to greet him:
"Councilor Horn."
The council badge on Heim's chest gleamed in the sunlight, demonstrating his authoritative position in this City of Magic.
Heim's brows were deeply furrowed as he anxiously questioned the group of mages:
"What exactly happened?"
A mage briefly pointed to the distance and answered:
"Councilor, look."
They all moved aside, clearing a path.
Heim stood at the edge of the floating island, gazing into the distance.
Countless floating islands, like pearls on a necklace, were strung together by magical ropes, forming a whole under the empty sky.
Daylight penetrated the cloudless azure sky, illuminating the entire world brilliantly.
The sky was divided into two colors, one side shining with bright radiance, while the other was shrouded in night.
Above that half of night hung countless curtains formed by stars.
The huge magical wheel rings in the sky had shattered, their countless fragments colliding with the stars, mixing together.
Starlight and sunlight collided in the air, causing splashing magical currents to ripple across the dim and bright realm.
The originally chaotic land had now become as quiet as a huge white stone, having lost its original color and shape.
Only stone fragments still floated in the sky.
The chaotic magical power had been dispersed, and the entire world seemed to have returned to peaceful order.
Seeing this scene before him, Heim Horn suddenly understood everything, and with sweat on his brow, he felt utterly helpless.
Because he knew that only one person could cause such a tremendous change...
"Viktor!!!"
"Why are you setting off explosions in Endymion again?!"
......
Henie's mind was somewhat foggy, and she felt her body was very light.
She managed to open her eyes and found herself seemingly surrounded by a hazy mist.
Silver fog enveloped her like a gauze veil, making her vision blurry.
The thick silver fog had submerged half of her body.
Looking up, she saw endless white mist rolling and soaring, just like the one beneath her.
A silver moon shot out some faintly yellow light, appearing particularly bright in the pitch-black night sky.
Henie was puzzled,
Where was this place?
But before Henie could think further, a voice gradually rose in the sky, like the calls of egrets rising and falling among the reeds, but with an additional ethereal quality.
That voice was like a gushing spring, its cool sound entering her ears, causing a tingling sensation as if tickling Henie's ears.
Then that cold sensation seemed to sink like ice in her chest, spreading throughout Henie's entire body.
She couldn't help but shudder.
Then warmth rose again from her heart, completely awakening Henie's somewhat hazy consciousness.
"Welcome, child..."
The voice had just begun, barely saying a few words, when it suddenly stopped.
"Hmm? This isn't right."
In the sky, it was as if a huge eye opened, with upper and lower eyelids appearing with yellow outlines in the darkness, and that moon also transformed into the giant eye's pupil, staring intently at Henie:
"You don't have the Eternal Furnace, nor are you a fifth-tier mage."
"Tell me—"
The originally light voice now became unusually deep and heavy, as if coming from a cavern submerged underwater, with coldness enveloping Henie's skin, incredibly oppressive.
"Why did it allow you to enter here?"
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