Noah really should have been worried.
News of his appointment had actually spread long ago. After all, the Sorcerer Supreme's inauguration ceremony was hardly a simple matter.
Kamar-Taj was indeed a Magic Organization and did not belong to any official institution.
However, Kamar-Taj had the Sorcerer Supreme, a guardian of Earth whose power was terrifying beyond measure. Even official bodies had to acknowledge Kamar-Taj's importance in the global magical community.
The news that Noah would inherit this important position had long since spread everywhere. Before, no one would likely have objected to that conclusion, but now...
Well, there were not many people opposed to it, but some rather subtle voices had indeed emerged.
The main reason was Noah's public killing of Kaecilius. It had truly troubled many mages.
Their voices were not particularly loud, nor were they trying to stop Noah from stepping onto this grand stage. They merely hoped that The Ancient One would reconsider and let Noah undergo more tempering—at the very least, to make him less hot-tempered.
Killing a high-level mage at the drop of a hat, regardless of the setting, right in front of the entire world—whether Muggles or mages—would make anyone worry that it might someday happen to them.
Even though they later learned what Kaecilius had done and why Mordo had fought him.
Noah's actions still frightened them. They would rather have seen Kaecilius stand trial than be killed in the street without a shred of dignity.
Well, typical Western thinking. Noah was long used to it.
He was even familiar with their whole way of doing things and knew how to use it himself. He just had not expected that, despite having gained such prestige, people would still jump out to challenge him.
As long as they did not cause some mess that