Decaying Tower Hall.
Altonia's hunched figure never truly left. He stood silently, like a withered tree merged with the shadows, behind winding giant roots, his two deep, dark green glows focusing intently on an object floating before him.
It was a crystal ball about the size of a human head.
The crystal ball wasn't pure and transparent; inside, it was filled with swirling, inky-dark gray-green fog. The fog wasn't chaotic; instead, it was clearly divided into eight distinct screen regions!
Each screen region corresponded to a Mystical Wizard laboriously climbing the staircase!
Baggen was engulfed in the red Flame Secret Technique, like an enraged Magma Giant. Every step he took clashed against the Power of Decay, with flame and decay colliding, producing a fierce energy shriek, as energy constantly dissipated at the image's edge, absorbed by the crystal ball.
