As August and Vanne Brander engaged in their serious discussion, the skies above the Western High Tower were alive with the powerful beats of wings. Great Sorcerer Titanium Hammer, a middle-aged man with a weathered face and streaks of silver in his short hair, flew confidently atop a majestic crystalline gryphon. The gryphon's feathers shimmered in the sunlight, a blend of deep blues and purples, while its piercing golden eyes scanned the landscape below. Riding alongside him was Great Sorcerer Hadrumei, perched upon a massive black wyvern, its scaled wings creating gusts of wind that whipped through the air as they tore toward the Phelan Sorcerer Tower.