Chapter 142: Growing Stronger

Soon, Professor Miller dismissed the students and as they dispersed, Hade and Quinn tarried behind. There was a lot to go over, after all.

However, instead of talking in public and risking their conversation being spied on, they went to a place nobody else but them knew,

The view on the rooftop of the first years building was just as splendid as the first time Hade beheld it.

The buildings of the Grand Hexagon lay basking under the morning sun like a small colony of seals. Watching them, Hade, too, suddenly felt the urge to lie down and sleep all of his problems away.

'If only…'

Switching his gaze to the barren land that stretched for miles and miles around them, Hade was suddenly struck by a thought:

'Could this... be another barrier as well?'

He had barely had any time to think his hypothesis over when Quinn brought him back to the present: