Unfair Competition

If he let him get away, could Benjamin still keep his position as dean?

At that moment, he dispersed the poisonous smoke with water vapor, then chased after him at top speed—after mastering the Water Element Domain, his flying speed was no slower than before.

"You can't escape."

At the whisper, the fleeing mage turned his head, only to see Benjamin's face drawing closer and closer. Fear and despair appeared in his eyes together.

"I..."

He opened his mouth, seemingly wanting to make another excuse, but Benjamin had no intention of listening to his nonsense. The moment the target entered his attack range, he summoned a huge ball of water and swallowed the old mage whole, drowning all of his possible excuses in the water as well.

Then, the water ball began spinning wildly. In less than two seconds, the old mage had already lost consciousness. Seeing this, Benjamin turned the water ball into a bubble and carried him back into the building.

Everything had happened within a few dozen seconds, and they were far from the classroom building. No one should have noticed anything unusual over here.

But the people inside the building must have sensed something.

"What happened?" Several mages ran out of the laboratory. They stared at Benjamin and the old mage in the bubble, shocked and suspicious, and hurriedly asked, "Dean? Mage Landor? You..."

Benjamin sighed and tossed the note taken from the bird's leg to those mages.

In truth, the contents of the note were simple. Although Mage Landor had tried to escape while Benjamin was reading it, Benjamin had already taken in most of it in that instant.

The mages read the words aloud as well. "The dean will be back soon. I'll find another chance to send you more runes."

They froze for