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Getting into his mentor's lab unnoticed was hard, as everything was booby-trapped.
As much as his mentor dismissed others' lives as worthless, he cared about his own very much.
But he managed, barely, although he had to spend a long time outside, watching for all signs of movement, before he determined his teacher was distracted enough in the lab to come into the underground facility.
And hide, waiting for the right moment to strike.
He focused on his magical vision, observing the net, finding all the weak spots.
For all that his mentor considered himself smarter, more talented and deserving than all those high mages who were just born with talents they wouldn't use, that attitude frequently made him underestimate high mages' possibilities.
Like magical vision, which could see mu
