But when he heard the Old Dean's slightly teasing reminder from who knew where,
Su Wen felt no guilt at all. He merely smiled, pushed open the doors, and nodded to the few students inside the hall who were consulting materials:
"Something else came up on the way."
"So young."
The Old Dean seemed not to care much about what other circumstances he had encountered.
After all,
he had lived for far, far too long.
And now, as the entire Gate-Alijos Great Library entered Su Wen's view, three hundred and twenty-seven books that had yet to be returned to their shelves floated through the air.
The copy of Principles of Elemental Resonance closest to Su Wen suddenly tilted, but he merely raised a hand to catch it. Unhurriedly, he returned it to the shelf before continuing deeper into the room.
Old Constance's temporary residence was an office somewhere within this library.
Perhaps very few people knew that this fifth-rank Star Realm Grand Mage was resting here at the moment.
But for this handsome young instructor, it was not difficult to find,
because the place where that fifth-rank sage was located would inevitably bear traces of old parchment and the starry sky within his azure Appraisal Vision.
Therefore,
when Su Wen pushed open that breathing oak door, he happened to see the old man fitting the final astrolabe gear on the table into a massive device.
Clearly,
that enormous mechanical device was currently reflecting the spiritual energy patterns of the City of Breezes.
Yet compared to the spiritual energy patterns enveloped by the emerald-green Breeze Giant Tree, what concerned Su Wen more was the darkness beyond those green barriers.
There was even that black rift above the main campus of Lorenz Riel's City of Breezes.
But since he could see such