บท 555:  Heaven's Denial - I

As Ansel stepped through the portal of the Zero Realm Enigma, the members of the Whistling Legion stationed outside the rift were stunned.

"…Is there such a huge difference in the flow of time over there?"

A man with a cigarette in his mouth approached, his uniform and the emblem on his chest indicating his identity—a notary of the Zero Explorers.

The Zero Explorers is not a specific adventurers' guild but, like the Etheric Academy and the Alchemy Association, a unifying organization above all adventurers' guilds.

In form, the Zero Explorers are even more loosely organized than the Etheric Academy, but in terms of actual authority, their control over adventurers surpasses the influence of the Etheric Academy over sorcerers.