Saine failed to contact Lina this time.
Ever since advancing to Rank Four, it had actually become much more convenient for Saine to keep in touch with Lina.
In particular, the Spider Queen in the Black Domain had agreed to look after Lina to some extent for Saine.
From this alone, Saine felt that the Spider Queen was far more reliable than Lina's mentor, the Pale Bone Tower Master.
Failing to reach Lina made Saine frown slightly.
However, he was not overly concerned about Lina's safety, because Lina had not left him any warning of danger.
The reason he could not reach her was likely because Lina was in the middle of some crucial experiment or had entered seclusion.
Among all the women Saine had encountered, Lina possessed the greatest talent.
Back when she had been in the Knight Continent Trial zone, the talent and abilities she displayed had not been much inferior to Green's or Angle's at the time.
Now that Green and Angle had successively advanced to Rank Four and even earned the honor of participating in the Wizard Alliance Assembly, Lina, as Saine's woman, should not have lagged too far behind.
It was simply that the circumstances faced by the Black Magicians of the Black Domain were far more difficult than those of ordinary mages in the Wizard World.
For example, peak Demigod Black Magicians within the Black Domain could not simply break through whenever they wished.
Saine had not considered this before, but after growing quite familiar with Rose, the Spider Queen of the Black Domain, and since the Land of Ashes also dealt with Black Domain powerhouses year-round, Saine discovered an unspoken restriction that could be called a consensus—namely, the number of Rank Four and above powerhouses in the Black Domain had always remained stable