Sword of the Godslayer
The world around Minos disappears when something piques his interest, and all that remains is him and the object of his obsession.
Time passed slowly for Lira. She would lean on the creaky walls of the tight abode, or look and watch the village outside waiting for her protege to call her name for assistance. But for Minos, everything is passing in a tiny moment, a short splice of time stretching between research and result, between reading and knowledge, between not knowing a single thing, to knowing everything he could ever figure.