Rune Formations

After seeing off the envoys from the two nations, Benjamin forced the queen to write a letter of appointment, temporarily transferring administrative authority over Ikor into the president's hands. With the queen's written order, they could finally restore Ikor's administrative system to normal.

The president busied himself with the matter, while Benjamin could not be bothered to look at the densely packed fine print in those documents. He knew nothing about the details of Ikor's administration, and he also knew that many local officials even regarded him with hostility.

—After making enemies everywhere, it would be difficult for him to take control of this country.

He could only wait for the president to act.

After everything that had happened, Benjamin trusted this old mage quite a bit. Like him, the man was not overly driven by power. What filled his heart more was a sense of responsibility toward the other mages, and the pursuit of a better magical environment.

They would do their utmost to steer Ikor's situation in the direction most beneficial to mages.

Thus, while temporarily staying in a guest room of Regina's royal palace, Benjamin opened a book.

"Interesting. Those mages actually conducted so much research and made so many hypotheses about runes that they even compiled them into a book," the System commented on the book.

Without a doubt, the enormous barrier that had protected the academy back then had been the work of runes, and Benjamin was very interested in them as well. However, time had been short, and Benjamin had had no time to listen to the mages' reports. He could only take this hastily compiled An Introduction to Runes and rush to Ikor with the queen.

Now that Ikor's affairs had been handed over to the president, he could spare some time to