"Damn it, I'd only just gotten to the happy part—how did you come back already..."
Zarlos was reluctant in a thousand different ways.
But that could not change the fact that Charles had ultimately returned.
Zarlos flashed down from the tower in a single leap and arrived before the wizard tower, where he waited respectfully.
At last, Charles's wizard tower gradually descended and returned to the outer shell used to conceal it.
After returning to Millstone Fortress, Charles's wizard tower reconnected with the various rune arrays originally used to draw mana.
Yet at this point, Charles did not particularly need those rune arrays anymore.
After gaining an elemental plane as its core, his thirst for such power had lessened considerably.
But no matter how small a mosquito was, it was still meat.
Even if it was much less than before, it could still be used to earn resources for his mana pool in the future.
Upon returning to the Abyss World, Charles glanced at Zarlos kneeling outside and casually asked, "Did anything important happen while I was away?"
Zarlos pressed his head to the ground and replied respectfully, "My Lord, while you were gone, Mark came looking for you several times, but I sent him away each time."
Charles nodded slightly. "You did well."
Charles's mental power swept across the entirety of Millstone Fortress. He quickly found Mark and said to him, "Come here."
Mark had been in his own storehouse, enjoying the money he had earned recently. The moment he heard Charles's voice, he did not dare think further and rushed straight out the door to Charles.
He respectfully cried, "My Lord, you finally answered me!"
Mark also knew that Charles had not been in the Abyss World recently, but he had not said anything.
Charles asked, "What did