Chapter 291: Patroller
Inside Benjamin's private mage tower in Golden Garden.
He was fully focused on deciphering the complex stream of data flowing across the light screen before him—research data related to the Divine Power Faith Network of the Eloria Plane.
Just then, the Magic Network Terminal sitting in a corner of the experimental bench emitted a notification tone unlike that of an ordinary communication request.
Benjamin's thoughts were interrupted. His brows creased slightly as his gaze swept toward the terminal screen.
It was not a communication request from anyone, but an automated notification from the official Magic Network system.
The message was concise, cold, and utterly devoid of emotion:
[Notification: Confirmed by the Wizard Camp, name: Anita Chuck, was confirmed dead on the Plane Battlefield at 86547-5568 (Folded), 37 days before the standard calendar. Her direct mentor, Level 2 Wizard Benjamin, shall have all related educational rewards and subsequent associated obligations officially terminated from the date of this notification.]
Benjamin's fingers, holding the data slate, paused slightly, and his gaze lingered on those lines for roughly two seconds.
Then, he gently set the data slate back on the table and shook his head helplessly.
His face ultimately returned to calm, as though he had merely read an insignificant weather report.
He turned his attention back to the intricate Divine Power Faith Network model, as though nothing had happened.
He had long expected Anita's fate.
An apprentice whose will had been weak even during her time at the Academy, who had devoted most of her energy to flashy but impractical spells and lacked both reverence for knowledge itself and a profound understanding of power—once abruptly thrown into the cruel Plane Battlefield, her chances of survival had been pitifully slim to begin with.
Ever since he had untied the