Full Professor

"What major matter?"

"Ron Ralph."

When Wayne said the name, he carefully watched her expression.

"You should still remember him, right? Back then, you valued him highly, and even made him..."

"Of course I remember."

There was no joy or anger in Cassandra's voice.

"He broke through to Archwizard."

Wayne spoke faster.

"It wasn't an ordinary breakthrough... it was the 'makings of a king'!"

"The entire Main World was shaken by the phenomena from his breakthrough! Four Wizard Kings appeared in person to congratulate him!"

"And..."

He lowered his voice, as if sharing some earth-shattering secret.

"He married Her Highness Eve."

The hand Cassandra used to hold her wineglass trembled, nearly spilling the wine.

"When did that happen?"

"Just a few months ago!"

Wayne pulled a crumpled newspaper from his clothes.

"I happen to have a copy here..."

Cassandra took the newspaper and quickly unfolded it.

The front-page headline used the largest font.

[Wedding of the Century! Newly Advanced Archwizard Ron Ralph and Crown Clan Heir Eve Saint-Manzhi Tie the Knot!]

[Four Great Wizard Kings Attend in Person to Offer Congratulations, an Unprecedented Scale!]

There was an illustration below the headline.

It was a captured image from the wedding scene—an endless, dreamlike Star Sea, the four great thrones suspended in midair, an incomparably beautiful woman in a white wedding dress...

And the young man standing beside her, whose appearance had not changed much.

Cassandra's gaze fell on her daughter's face in the image.

Eve was smiling.

It was the kind of smile she had never seen on her daughter's face before.

So radiant, so happy, so... utterly unguarded.

"tower... no, madam, are you all right?"

Wayne asked with some concern.

The expression on the face of this contemporary strongest, who had once awed all sides, was... not quite sorrow, and