During the nearly half year since returning to the Dark Flame Holy Tower, Saine's main work had been handling contract signings and retention efforts for those departing magicians.
As the dean, Saine had also gained a clearer understanding of the Dark Flame Holy Tower's current situation through the conveniences of his position.
Before launching the war against the Gumo Plane, the Dark Flame Holy Tower had a total of 19,876 registered magicians.
Nearly twenty thousand registered magicians was not a particularly large number, but it was certainly not small either.
Yet after the Gumo Plane war ended, the number of registered magicians had plummeted to 3,207 in less than a year.
The magicians lost and killed during the war were ultimately only a minority. The overwhelming majority had voluntarily left the Holy Tower after the war ended.
This was only because Saine and Dean Kester had done everything in their power to retain a group of magicians who had only recently advanced to Level 1. Otherwise, the number would likely have fallen below two thousand.
This experience also made Saine deeply understand that while he could understand the choice Dark Flame Master had made on the Gumo Plane battlefield, if he ever found himself in that situation in the future, it would be best not to do the same!
An eighty-percent reduction in the Holy Tower's numbers was already enough to explain the problem.
The Dark Flame Holy Tower now had even fewer registered magicians than the Azure Source Holy Tower.
A few months earlier, Saine had submitted these figures to Dark Flame, the Level-5 Magician who had returned to the Wizard World.
This tower master showed no great emotional reaction to the departures taking place within the Holy Tower. He even praised Saine and the others for handling the