— Meanwhile - Astral Corp building —
Aryan Sharma, CEO of Astral Corporation, sat in his office, watching the UN Assembly news. He knew his company's flagship project, the lunar moon base, was being targeted by various countries.
If he were still the same Aryan Sharma who're unaware of the Curtained World, he would have been panicked by the news. Now, however, he sensed it was a game played by the mage families manipulating these country leaders. They sought to gain something substantial from his boss rather than genuinely protect their citizens' interests.
Perhaps they were sincere in their endeavor, but Aryan knew better. If the puppeteers behind these leaders hadn't agreed, they wouldn't dare to make such a fuss.
Now that he had become a mage—even though just an apprentice mage who hadn't graduated from mage school and attained the novice rank—he held more power than the leaders of countries, some of whom might not even be aware of the existence of the Curtained World.
