The sky had already grown dim.
Stars glittered above Sia Tower... Tonight was a new moon.
The enormous metal eagle landed beside Hilbert.
Seated atop the aircraft, with a beautiful silver candlestick standing beside him, the handsome Purple Robe Mage gently stroked each lifelike feather beneath the bright candlelight. A smile touched his lips, while light flowed through the monocle over his eye.
Clearly, he was still savoring the lovely scene from earlier.
Oliva flew over with Aislin. From afar, the expressions on both their faces were quite telling.
Oliva was naturally delighted by their misfortune.
As for "Aislin," her expression was somewhat twisted.
Although the two Eighth-Circle Mages had already crossed that two-meter-high stone wall... before any magic arrays had been carved into it, the wall was merely symbolic. Still, the little girl who spotted them promptly called out, "Teacher, guests have arrived!"
Oliva lowered his head and glanced at the girl... Her name was Carpenter, right?
He remembered Gilbert intended to have the girl manage the future apprentices and the miscellaneous affairs of his Mage Tower.
Sure enough, anyone Gilbert favored could never have earned it solely through blood relations.
Hilbert straightened slightly, folded his dangling legs beneath him, and asked with a smile, "What? Want to start fighting right away?"
Oliva shook his head. "Gilbert, Master knows you were the one who suffered this time.
He also never expected Aislin to dare tamper with something like this.
She had never been so... absurd before."
"Aislin" gave a cold snort.
"What are you still standing there for?" Oliva turned to glance at her. "You've only just arrived at Sia Tower, and you're already letting people see our internal discord?
Even the people from Kament Tower are keeping quiet for the time being, yet look at you!
Even for