When he created the construct butler Sebastian, Punk had not endowed the fellow with the ability to "run at extreme speed," because he believed the environment inside his magic tower ought to remain eternally quiet, preferably without any unnecessary sounds. Something certainly should not be running about everywhere. In any case, truly urgent matters would be handled personally by the caster, and for trivial matters that were not urgent... convenient teleportation gates connected every level of the magic tower, so getting around without running was still very easy.
But now it seemed... although the Legendary Mage had deliberately lowered Sebastian's intelligence by quite a bit, over his tens of thousands of years as a butler, he had still independently mastered the skill of "walking quickly." When something deemed extremely urgent by the system occurred, the old butler, who had finally waited for the Legendary Mage to return to the magic tower, immediately activated his "swift stride" skill.
Thus, Punk now watched this metal-form golem hasten before him in an exceedingly awkward and comical posture.
"Reporting to the great Mr. Whisper of Destruction: thirty-three days, twenty hours, thirteen minutes, and seven seconds after your departure, a clear anomaly appeared outside the magic tower. A total of sixteen enormous packages appeared in the center of the 'courtyard' outside the magic tower. According to the magic tower's autonomous detection system, each package contains concealed energy fluctuations at the Legendary tier. I did not dare inspect those packages without authorization, so..."
"So those packages are all still in the courtyard?"
Without revealing anything, Punk frowned. As he swiftly released his perception to directly connect to the magic tower's recording terminal and inspect the surveillance data, he could not help narrowing his eyes with a subtle expression.
The statistical data showed that those so-called "packages"