Chapter 83

While Diana and Cassion were fighting off the cold in Wind Valley, Gadrian had been walking along a quiet path through the palace grounds.

He wasn't really out for a stroll — he was avoiding a visitor who'd come from the Magic Tower looking for him.

For a while now, the Tower had been pestering him endlessly, begging him to come back.

Apparently some major problem had cropped up inside the Tower, though Gadrian couldn't recall when exactly he'd become someone involved enough in Tower affairs for people to be this desperate to drag him back.

Either way, Gadrian was currently playing a game of hide-and-seek disguised as a walk.

If only Karman would just summon him right now, or if he happened to have a lesson scheduled with Cassion — that would have been perfectly convenient timing.

But father and son never seemed to need him exactly when he…