News of the greatness of Zich’s party spread across the entire Steelwall Estate. People’s attention especially gravitated to the mages since mages usually gathered in their magicians’ tower and rarely moved outside of it unless they received a command from the king. Yet, Zich’s party had two of these rare mages.

Lyla and Elena rarely appeared on the training ground because it was also important to learn theory for magic, unlike sword fighting which placed the utmost importance on ingraining physical techniques into their bodies. Yet, the little magic they showed for practice caught the attention of everyone around them. A place like Steelwall that placed special attention on military might was particularly excited to see them.

Just having the title of a mage was impressive, and people were awed by Zich’s ability to have two such people as companions. Accompanied by their disappointment in Greig, people began to regret that Zich had been chased away from his house even more. Yet, no one would speak these words in front of the Count, Countess, or Greig.

Almost everyone in Steelwall had looked down on Zich and treated him terribly. Although people tended...