As everyone knew, to promote magic, they had previously made a film called "Ilvermorny." It became a global hit overnight, and whether they were the three young leads or supporting characters, everyone became famous overnight.
With the film being so popular, the excellent script naturally deserved some credit. And to heighten the dramatic conflict, some people at the school had naturally been written as villains.
They could not exactly be called villains. They were more like the protagonists' sworn rivals, like Malfoy in "Harry Potter." They were not utterly evil, but they still caused trouble for the protagonists at every turn.
Though these minor antagonists were not particularly wicked, they needed some real capability to highlight the protagonists' intelligence and courage. At the very least, they needed a few followers. Those followers could only come from the same academy as them—Slytherin in "Harry Potter," and Mercury Academy in "Ilvermorny."
It had been mentioned before that this academy had produced quite a few dark wizards. The most famous one—the greatest villain in this film series—had come from this academy. On top of that, its smooth-talking, deceitful behavior had made it unpopular with the other three academies.
All of that was merely part of the film's setting, not something that existed in real life. But there would never be a shortage of idiots in this world who could not tell fiction from reality.
After the Spiritual Energy Resurgence in the Nine Realms, humanity had gone from a non-magical race to a low-magic race. Ordinary people with exceptional talent, like Gwen, could also manipulate the natural elements around them. They could not cast earth-shattering spells, but making a fireball was still possible.
To ordinary people, that was already incredibly impressive, as if they could become Archmages tomorrow. Since they had never encountered Demon