Fire Oil City, the faction's residence.
Monroe once again carefully checked the room to ensure that the Wizards hadn't secretly set up any eavesdropping magic before he placed the Crystal Ball on the desk.
The red light became increasingly intense, and a strange magical power fluctuation quickly spread in all directions.
Monroe, however, wasn't worried that the energy fluctuation would alert the Wizards.
Although the entire Fire Oil City was covered with magic for detecting Divine Arts, the Crystal Ball he held was essentially a wizard's tool, and it was for this reason that it passed the previous inspection.
Wizards carried a variety of alchemical tools on their person, and the council couldn't possibly check each one carefully, nor would they do something so likely to cause discontent.
And a Wizard using magic in his room, causing some magic power fluctuations, was perfectly normal with nothing warranting suspicion.