After the lecture, Irina and Astron had a very long talk about his own idea about the Phantom's Land itself.
'This guy….'
And the more she listened to his idea, the more she couldn't help but get impressed. To be able to come up with such a thing wasn't hard. Most of the mages could easily think of the reverse-engineering process as a concept.
However, when it came to applying that in both calculations on paper and reality, they would stumble.
What Astron did was solve it just at point. The way he provided insights pointed to the source of the problem exactly. Irina herself was one of the best mages amongst her peers, and she was pretty confident in her analytic capabilities.
'If he wanted, he could easily get a job as a scholar….'