The Ark Wars 1
Life became pretty much a simple routine for Alex, he narrowed his studies to Arrays and the theory behind wards as he pretty much did not understand anything about mana yet. He had no idea why he was dragging his feet to actually study magic, but he reckoned it was because he already had a lot on his plate. But never the less for some reason studying arrays were not too hard for him, it took him just around three week as to fully master and memorize intermediate arrays and inscriptions.
Alex had kept to himself mostly, it wasn't exactly what he needed to do to move forward the next phase of their plan, but he was wholly focused on studying. To many his work ethic was admirable, but to everyone else in his tower, this was just a way for Alex to deal with the pain and disappointment he felt about the death the three Zhang clan members that were a part of his tower.