A few days had passed since the last holiday, and things were back on track for Athar. He was once again focused on the path to increasing his strength.
Though everything was progressing smoothly, he had hit a bottleneck with the Phase of Illusion technique. Let alone mastering it, he had not even been able to perform it at a novice level. While he was making some progress, it was painfully slow. Compared to the other techniques he had learned, this one felt like crawling through mud and he had no clue why it was proving so difficult.
At the moment, Athar was sitting in the library, flipping through a thick book. During their last lecture, his master Angelica had tasked him with understanding the administrative and political structure of the Royal Winged Empire.
The Royal Winged Empire, as he had learned, was located in the northwestern part of their world. It shared large borders with two of the three other empires and had a smaller boundary with the third.
