After reminding Zorian not to skip the lesson tomorrow as well, Alanic left in the same manner he had arrived. Zorian shook his head to clear it of fanciful tales of ancient artifacts and continued working on his golem prototype. He would go ask Vani about the Sovereign Gate and the Bakora gate network tomorrow, though he didn’t expect that to go anywhere. While the story about the first emperor of Ikosia could be interpreted as an account of the time loop, it made no sense that an artifact supposedly stored in the capital would cause an effect centered around Zach and Cyoria. Oh well, it cost him nothing to ask. It was only a half hour later that Zorian realized Alanic had teleported inside his room despite the fact he had warded it against teleportation. Frowning, Zorian wrote down a

