ertain areas of the monastery were protected by static wards—predictable, designed to keep students out. These were the standard protections around dangerous equipment, unstable magical experiments, or valuable but non-critical resources. They followed textbook patterns, efficient but unremarkable.
Others had dynamic spells, surveillance arrays, and detection triggers. These were different entirely—sophisticated, adaptive, clearly the work of master enchanters. They didn't just keep people out; they studied anyone who approached, learning and adapting to potential threats.
Those areas, he noted with particular care.
They didn't protect scrolls or classrooms. They protected people.
