West was frozen speechless.
All the mental prep work he'd painstakingly done for himself was wiped out in a single sentence.
No wonder no one ever called this Archmage a bad person, yet at the same time no one ever wanted to deal with him; even his own fellow disciples wouldn't come to this Side Tower unless they absolutely had to!
This was vicious, okay?
Reality was already cruel enough, why insist on slapping him in the face again?
West didn't dare refuse to answer either; if this one wanted to make trouble for him, he wouldn't even need Archmage Ruth to say a word.
Gilbert had plenty of nasty ideas; otherwise, with how terrible the Hainarson Clan's location was, how had they managed to go all these years without running into a single competent thief?
"The esteemed Mage Selin Bogard believes that as the one managing the apprentices, I must make sure the Magic Tower's treatment of apprentices doesn't have the slightest flaw." West answered carefully.
