Watching the two children leave, Gilbert waved a hand and lowered layer upon layer of thick curtains... Well versed in defensive spells, he excelled at using simple, basic arrays to build complex defenses.
He simply seldom used all the curtains.
Although this might cause a little... misunderstanding among those who kept watching him, the most important of them had already given up on obtaining anything special from him. The rest were nothing to fear.
With newcomers entering his household, and with him clearly about to face a life-or-death ordeal, he had to make arrangements for his inheritance. Those people would not read too much into it.
"So, who might you be?" Gilbert looked intently at an invisible figure.
Although Wester fell a little short of him in certain respects, he was not so inept that Gilbert could detect a presence that Wester could not.
And the reason only a few fools unworthy of serious consideration wanted to seize the area where he lived, while the true inner circle of the Black Enigma Tower avoided it like the plague, was naturally that outsiders were monitored very closely here.
Gilbert had not learned nothing over the past few years... Contrary to outside speculation about his situation, his teacher was actually the one with the least desire for power among the three tower masters.
How could anyone who wanted more dare display an interest in abjuration spells in the face of the catastrophe that had wiped out the Defense Tower?
Even knowing that anything their Hainalson Family could bring out must have been vetted by the Sia Tower made no difference. Those other two were still hoping the Black Enigma Tower could become part of the Sia Tower's inner circle!
How could they dare reach for anything they should not?
His teacher Rute,