At some point, Adam had dragged a small table from a corner of the room and placed it by the fireplace, in between the two high-backed leather chairs.
Several parchments and books were sprawled out on the small table, and the Headmaster and the former Emperor were reading through them with rapt attention.
Meanwhile, Adam remained standing, gazing at the two experts' expressions from time to time before shifting his attention to the parchments and books on the table.
They were his research notes on rune magic—more specifically, on rune magic pertaining to teleportation portals.
The moment he discovered the existence of that ominous portal underneath Hannes City, and learned that there were five others scattered across the world, he had already begun planning how to disarm them.
