Book Eight: Chapter 177

Upon pulling the lever, the star signs actually started rotating on their own, the mechanism resetting itself as the double doors swung open.

“Aha!” Natalie kicked off the floor and floated into the room. Up above, the gears of the colossal telescope had come loose, all of them floating around the room. Books, scrolls, and magical implements bounced around, the room absolutely saturated with mana.

“Finally,” Natalie muttered, her fingers trembling as she pulled out her measuring tape. Over the course of several hours, she meticulously mapped out the size of the room, stopping only once when she realized that she could somehow see stars outside of the observatory’s roof.

“Spatial magic,” she muttered, wondering if she should just crawl out that window and find a way home from there. Wherever that opening went might have a place she could link with her house and allow her to go back and forth.

However, she realized that was mainly hunger talking. Her stomach wa