After Belode was sent out of the secret realm, only Saine and Green remained within it.
Green did not seem overly concerned with victory or defeat. He showed no obvious reaction when Saine brought out the godhead and the God Blood of a Level-5 Creature.
From beginning to end, he remained neither arrogant nor impatient.
Watching Green busy himself before the laboratory table, Saine suddenly recalled their days as Magic Apprentices, when they had studied together in the Azure Source Holy Tower library and discussed Truth.
In a sense, Green had been the first "friend" Saine met after joining the Azure Source Holy Tower.
Perhaps influenced by Green's temperament, Saine took a deep breath and slowed his experiment once more, striving to make every step of this Alchemy Experiment as perfect as possible.
Belode, a peak demigod magician, believed Saine was the most likely contender to claim first place. He had even overlooked Green, the Level-3 Magician quietly conducting his experiment there.
But Saine had not overlooked him. In Saine's eyes, Green's potential even surpassed his own.
He was a truly ordinary genius who had risen from nothing, one step at a time, to reach where he stood today.
Green was ordinary because he truly looked unremarkable; throw him into a corner, and no one would pay him any notice.
Yet Green was a genius because he had indeed reached heights unattainable to ordinary people. It was simply that few ever discovered this talent of his.
Saine was likely the first magician to resonate with Green, or perhaps to feel that they recognized kindred spirits in each other.
And the one who had truly discovered Green's talent and guided it correctly had been his mentor—Master Archimedes.
Judging by the fact that Green had already advanced to Level 3 and attained