Kament Tower and Rommel naturally did not need to queue at the entrance to register.
Unlike Kament Tower's other students, who were received by Mages of the same rank, Rommel received the same treatment as his teacher.
Rommel did not think being treated with such courtesy by a Ninth-Circle Archmage was necessarily a good thing... Kament Tower's pettiness was no secret.
He could grow jealous even when his own students surpassed him in strength and received better treatment than he did, let alone over something like this.
Because some powerful figure had taken a liking to him, his student's status was now on par with his own. In fact, it was obvious that Kament Tower was the one being included as an afterthought... Honestly, even someone less petty than Kament Tower, someone like Nicholson, would not feel good about it.
That was human nature.
Naturally, broad-minded people would not act that way, but... how many such people were there in this world?
Rute was already the Archmage Rommel had met who cared the least about such superficial things, yet even he still cared whether his students respected him.
If Rommel had truly only been able to establish himself because of Kament Tower's favor, then with this single incident, he would lose part of his support.
If Kament Tower lost his composure a little more and began treating him coldly, or even speaking to him with veiled sarcasm... unless Rommel could advance to the Eighth Ring, or even the Ninth-Circle Mage rank, as quickly as possible, sooner or later he would find the warm and welcoming Glasya much preferable.
Once well-informed Rommel understood this, he could not even summon any anger... Of the several Ninth-Circle Mages receiving them, Rosero had been somewhat distracted the entire time. That female Mage had no