Only a few minutes later, Karin returned to his previous spot.
"Mr. Karin, where did you just go?" Mage Polly Moni glanced at Karin and asked curiously.
"Uh..." Karin paused, then could only offer an offhand answer. "...I just ran into a friend, so I went over for a moment!"
Fortunately, Polly did not press him on it. She continued, "Karin, which school do you specialize in? I specialize in evocation!"
"Abjuration..."
But Polly did not continue the conversation. Something else had caught her eye...
"Look, that boy over there! He must be Khadgar!" she shrieked, pointing ahead and to the right.
Karin looked where she was pointing:
A boy with a face full of freckles looked to be only fourteen, and his expression was somewhat timid.
He followed several battlemages slowly into the castle. Under their guidance, he was assigned a seat in the front row and sat down.
"I'm so jealous..." Polly said softly. "If only I had talent like his!"
Karin shook his head, but he was actually very envious too...
In the future, Khadgar would earn Medivh's appreciation and receive his legacy, even becoming the finest mage in the entire world and ultimately the chairman of the Council of Six... A true protagonist!
In terms of talent alone, Khadgar was far better than him!
A female mage walked over to Khadgar and seemed to be giving him some instructions...
"That's Archmage Modera!" Polly, who could not keep her mouth shut, began introducing her to Karin.
"Yes, I know..." Karin had already met this archmage of the School of Evocation once, at that public lecture.
"Then here's something you definitely don't know... Modera is actually nearly two hundred years old! And she's an ordinary human, not an elf, half-elf, troll, or anything like that!" Polly said rather