He was the most worried about Gabe as a guild leader and selfishly just did not at all want that to be a thing. Rhys sees Gabe as a free-spirited and innocent sort of person, and the fact that the former Asha actually went insane makes Rhys feel like this is not a good idea at all everything is terrible Gabe should never be subjected to this ever why. Rhys could not see Gabe as someone suited to guild leader life.

But seeing Gabriel fight has given him the awareness that Gabe is a willing participant. Saying it is one thing, but seeing Gabe out there and making it happen is harder to deny. It would have been easy for Gabe to sit this one out if he wanted to, but he didn't, and Gabe is emotionally finding ways to handle it.

So there's a little less fear on Rhys' end, and a willingness to calm down and accept Gabe as the Asha. He still finds the idea of Gabe commanding the elements surreal, but he also thinks it's kind of fitting. Gabe wasn't big on sciences and now he gets to laugh at science. lolphysics

Does Gabe have any plans of his own for the mage's guild?