Who Dares Touch My People?

The Mage Association was far from monolithic. Competition existed between its various factions and groups.

The Association's upper ranks even encouraged such competition, using it to balance the power of all sides.

It counted as healthy competition, more or less.

But no matter how healthy it was, their constant clashes inevitably bred resentment.

For example, the Enchantment School and the Illusion School were rather hostile toward each other, while the relationships between the Transmutation Faction and the Alchemy School's subordinates were even more tangled. At least those groups had inherent connections, so they could compete with one another.

Later, the Transmutation Faction's Chimera Faction butted heads with the Conjuration Faction's Summonology branch. And it was not even an academic dispute, merely a contest of reputation.

The two sides wanted to prove who was the "strongest summoner," so they held a grand Summoner Competition every four years. As the event continued, it gradually became more than just a matter between two factions and instead turned into a festival for people throughout the Main World.

Mages fighting!

And every edition came up with different tricks from the last one! How exciting was that?

When the Association saw it, they went, "Whoa, so many people are watching? Fine, let's sell tickets."

Everything could be ticketed... Part of the profits could go to the two factions, and another portion could be set aside as prize money for the champion.

Just like that, they got both prestige and profit.

Good lord, the two groups fought harder and harder, until they were practically no different from mortal enemies.

Later, similar competitions gradually multiplied, and Canaan City's tourism, dining, hotel, and gambling industries boomed alongside them. The place became prosperous in every sense of the word.

Anyone willing to travel all that way just for entertainment clearly