Rojas had no choice but to report everything Aislin had done to Archmage Rute.
Rute had never expected that the moment his student was rescued, she would immediately soar to new heights.
Before she had even pulled him out of the frying pan, she had fallen back into her old habits.
For a female Mage, self-respect, self-love, and self-restraint were certainly good things. But not even being able to distinguish between payment for labor and accepting favors from others, then kicking up a fuss over it... Even Rute, who had always favored Aislin, had nothing to say this time.
Of course, he also knew there was no point saying any of this to Aislin. Rute simply ordered her that if she believed the resources those Mages responsible for delivering messages received varied in value, or that some of those things might conceal improper inducements, then she had to take responsibility for the matter herself.
She was to assign a fixed reward for every task that required those junior Mages to deliver messages.
But everyone knew that delivering messages looked easy while actually being quite troublesome.
For example, when she asked someone to deliver an unpleasant message to Gilbert for her... If Aislin had not known that it might provoke Gilbert's displeasure, why had she sought out Rojas's students instead of using her own attendants?
Would anyone really be willing to take on that kind of task for such a basic reward?
This was a Mage Tower, not a slave pen. Even Mid-to-Low-Rank Mages could not be forced to run errands.
Once Aislin thought it through, she quickly gave up... It was not that she had not wanted to draw up a message-delivery task list, but when she thought of how much effort she would have to expend over such trivial