Chapter 60: [Bonus chapter]

"I think I found something that I am good at." Alex said with a smile from ear to ear. 

After relating the domain knowledge he had about computer science to runes and mana manipulation, Alex was able to successfully break the chain. Something impossible for a warrior to do.

"How! How did you do it? What you have accomplished is something incomprehensible. It takes an apprentice mage years to gather enough knowledge to decipher the simplest rune formation. But not only did you decipher it, but you did it within hours after coming to contact with new knowledge." Ethan said. 

After taking a moment to think, as if he realised something, Ethan asked Alex once again. 

"You are not a warrior, right? You are a mage hiding in the central continent, right? You were trying to test me by asking the question about runes and magic. right?" He expected an affirmation from Alex. His eyes eagerly scanned Alex waiting for him to reply.