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Following the Tower of Paradise incident, the original Council of Magi had announced its dissolution amid all kinds of public pressure. The new Council of Magi was still being assembled and could not operate for the time being.
As a result, since the Council of Magi had dissolved, many Dark Guilds and Magic Cults that had once only been able to operate in secret had begun stirring restlessly. Not long ago, quite a few Dark Guilds and Magic Cults had even started operating openly, forcing the mages of various guilds to rush back and forth between major cities, subjugating those unlawful Dark Guilds and Magic Cults.
It had already been nearly two months since the Tower of Paradise incident.
Those Dark Guilds and Magic Cults with neither strength nor foresight, which had eagerly jumped out to throw their weight around as soon as the Council of Magi dissolved, should have been mostly wiped out by the major guilds by now.
Noah had heard that during the month he had been away, the activities of many Dark Guilds and Magic Cults had already begun to die down.
Who would have thought that Dark Guilds were still active even now?
That was no good thing.
After all, the weak Dark Guilds had already been mostly eliminated. Any Dark Guild that could survive the combined suppression of the major guilds for over two months would definitely no longer be some clueless clown that only knew how to jump out and cause trouble.
Now that the weak Dark Guilds had been eliminated, the big shots among the Dark Guilds were probably about to