The Hunt Begins (1)

There were three islands on the ocean Kyle and his team had arrived on. Each island was as large as the other and they each bore a large glowing sign that displayed the mages required there.

As expected, they had landed on the island for the Beginner Mages without question, but as they walked through the island, Kyle couldn't help but wonder after noticing the large number of mages present there.

'What's stopping an Advanced Mage from sneaking onto the Beginner Mage island? There's no way that they could track the mana of all these people all at once, right?"

He glanced at Riya, but before he could voice his thoughts, he shook his head and muttered to himself, "That's not my problem. There's probably some kind of safeguard in place. There has to be."

Riya interrupted his musings by pointing toward a large glowing sign near the center of the island. Beneath it, a massive countdown timer displayed the remaining time until the Tower's opening: