How could one judge whether a piece of equipment was a Magic Item, or what special effects it possessed?
The simplest method was naturally to use the 1st-circle divination ritual spell—Identify.
With just a light touch, the way to use the item, its properties and effects, even the number of charges it had remaining, would all enter your mind like inherited memories.
But even though it was the most common, most ordinary practical 1st-circle spell, and after so many years of improvements by countless outstanding Mages, its requirements for spellcasting materials had become almost nonexistent, the most basic condition for casting Identify was still that one had to be a Spellcaster.
And because Spellcasters were scarce due to the high threshold required to become one, this also doomed such low-level spells to being unable to benefit the vast majority of lower-class commoners and low-level adventurers in this world.
As for Magic Scrolls that stored Identify—one could only say that after seeing their expensive market price, anyone who could still treat them as a common appraisal method definitely possessed wealth beyond the scope of ordinary people.
It was true that the Adventurers Association was an ultra-massive organization whose sphere of influence extended across the entire continent, but wanting every Association branch to be equipped with a Spellcaster who had mastered Identify was also impossible.
Setting aside whether there truly were that many Spellcasters willing to give up their future careers, give up the comfortable lives of manors and castles, and work shifts in Association branches that were often located in frontier towns near Monster gathering grounds, the annual salaries and compensation required alone would already be an astronomical figure.
And the Adventurers Association itself was loose and free, more like a "platform" in organizational nature, so it could not force its