After leaving Dark Flame, Saine made another trip to the Holy Tower Academy, bidding farewell to the colleagues and younger students who had come to see him off.
The real reason Saine was leaving the Dark Flame Holy Tower, aside from his desire to continue tempering himself, was naturally the Spider Queen's urging.
Otherwise, with Dark Flame's lavish offer, Saine might really have agreed to remain at the Dark Flame Holy Tower and spend another century or so as dean.
When the old dean of the Azure Source Holy Tower, Archimedes, had left back then, two-thirds of the Holy Tower's magicians had come to see him off.
Today, however, not many people came to see Saine off as he departed from the Dark Flame Holy Tower.
After all, Saine's temperament was the complete opposite of Dean Archimedes's.
Moreover, among the rules Saine had restructured for the Holy Tower Academy several decades ago at the Spider Queen's suggestion, many were far from friendly toward Formal-Ranked Magicians and above.
As a result, Saine's reputation within the academy was far inferior to that of the other dean, Kester.
What Saine had gained instead was no small amount of infamy.
Besides the apprentices and magicians of this Holy Tower, who held considerable resentment toward the academy rules Saine had amended,
many of the Dark Flame Holy Tower's academy rules had, in recent years, been borrowed and adopted by several nearby Holy Towers due to Dark Flame Holy Tower's outstanding achievements.
Originally, Saine's bad reputation had been limited to sparring with Level-3 Magicians from other Holy Towers and injuring quite a few members of neighboring Holy Towers.
But now, good heavens, his infamy was practically spreading throughout the entire region surrounding the Dark Flame Holy Tower.
Even Academy Mages from various Holy Towers who had