After more than a decade apart, Ye Ting finally saw the little apprentice he had taken in back then.
Compared to the clever, adorable little girl brimming with spiritual energy she had once been, she was now a dazzling beauty impossible to ignore, as well as an accomplished archmage admired and envied by her peers.
The changes of the world truly inspired sighs.
Yet at this very moment, faced with the visit of her master and the mentor who had taught her, the beautiful mage seemed utterly unaware, still wholly absorbed in her magical research.
However, Ye Ting did not believe she truly knew nothing of their arrival.
As the master of the Azure Star, with the tower spirit monitoring her surroundings for her, Ye Ting believed Jaina had received word the moment the two of them arrived at the base of the tower—after all, this mage tower had clearly been built after Ye Ting left, yet the tower spirit had immediately called out his name.
In other words, the girl was giving him the cold shoulder.
That was hardly surprising.
Other than Ye Ting, what master would take on an apprentice and then run off for more than ten years less than a year later?
If he had not arranged for reclusive masters like Medivh and Aegwynn to teach Jaina and Ilucia before leaving, they might even have suspected that his supposed apprenticeship had been nothing but a trick.
Even so, Ye Ting had left an extremely irresponsible impression on them.
Even though he had left them abundant wealth and knowledge, even though the substitute teachers he had hired were luminaries who made even Antonidas, head of the Kirin Tor, pale in comparison, and even though he had granted them the power of "Dragons," allowing them to pull far