Nina led Axel to a certain room, where a complicated formation was drawn across the floor—a magic circle that spanned roughly ten meters across. It was similar to, but quite different from, the one they used before.
"This way."
Nina stood in the middle of it, with Axel curiously tagging along right behind her.
He watched carefully as the runes drawn began to glow a bright red, blinding enough that he had to close his eyes.
When the light faded, he was no longer in the frontline fortress, but rather inside another closed room. A giant dome, with hundreds of other magic circles of similar make scattered around.
The witches who seemed to be keeping watch over all these formations quickly bowed their heads low when Nina appeared. This kind of behavior was excused while on the frontline, but seeing that they were paying extra careful attention to showing respect…
"So we're in the castle already?" Axel muttered.
