Rojas and Coyle had, after all, grown into Archmages under Rute of the Black Enigma Tower.
Though the environment had been complicated and life exhausting, they truly had a path upward before them.
As long as they dared risk offending the two obstacles, Oliva and Aislin, and bravely stood before Rute to prove themselves, capable people still had a chance to rise to high positions.
Oliva and Aislin had never been polite to junior brothers and sisters trying to climb over them, but... as long as you made sure they could not catch you with any leverage, even fighting those two directly would not necessarily cost you your life.
It was simply that the students Rute appreciated were generally those with greater Mage talent.
Learning spells was a long and arduous process. Not everyone was willing to sacrifice their energy to fight for power... Rute, as a teacher, had indeed given his students the confidence not to fight for it.
Otherwise, the ones standing beside Rute should not have been people like Oliva and Aislin, whose methods were never ruthless enough and who always left things half-done.
Coyle and Rojas were the same. If not for their respective predicaments, they still preferred the old days, when all they had to do was focus on studying spells.
So, even though both of them were clever enough, they could not figure out exactly what made the Despair Tower so despairing... the plight of Nicholson's students in the same Black Enigma Tower was nearly the lowest limit they could imagine.
As for Kament Tower, they basically did not regard it as part of the legitimate Mage Tower system.
After all, at least half the people there could not be counted as part of the Black Enigma Tower's system, Kament Tower itself included.
Though