Hill's initial restlessness slowly settled as he taught day after day.
Even when he heard that the Iron Dragon was still flying freely outside, he showed no concern.
Although it was clearly a little unusual for the mage in charge of the apprentices to come tell him this, Hill had no interest whatsoever in finding out who had sent him.
As long as he stayed in his own Side Tower, no one would come looking for trouble anyway... During this time, he had gradually replaced its defensive magic arrays with slightly more effective ones built from standard runes.
Once all the arrays were complete, he had also exerted himself a little to run some offensive experiments, so everyone who needed to know now knew.
The apprentices of Gilbert's senior fellow disciple really did have a good eye for things... They had specifically chosen the day Hill conducted his experiments to come greet him.
Although they had not managed to get inside, Hill had still exchanged a few words with them as they stood outside his door expressing their concern.
With that as a foundation, and with Gilbert's senior fellow disciple having publicly stated before leaving that they should seek out Mage Gilbert if they encountered any major trouble they could not resolve... that he had already asked Gilbert to help, those mages would only target other apprentices unless they wanted to offend Gilbert.
Especially since Gilbert, despite always looking half-dead, somehow kept showing signs of improvement... His progress had actually become even more obvious these past few days!
Some people had even dared to suggest that Gilbert might have a chance of surviving that dangerous Mind Power Potion.
Still, Hill had only made his progress so obvious because he wanted the people of the Black Mystery Tower to have some