The Northern Lands were bitterly cold, and this likewise created a far greater divide between the spellcaster circles here and ordinary human society than in other regions of the Wizard World.
More than ninety percent of ordinary people in the Northern Lands had likely never seen what a Witch looked like in their entire lives.
To those humans living amid the snow-capped mountains, powerful Witches were like figures from myth.
The Northern Lands had likewise never fostered a Universal Magic Craze like that of the Ebarute Empire.
The selection of Witch apprentices was far more troublesome and far rarer than the recruitment of Magic Apprentices in other regions of the Wizard World.
A Witch apprentice would only emerge when Witches above Level One traveled through the snowy mountains, and, through a convergence of opportunity and luck, some Witch chose one.
Although there were Holy Tower Academies in the Northern Lands as well, it was entirely possible that the number of Witch apprentices in the academies established by those Witches above Level Four was equal to the number of their registered Witches above Level One.
It was even possible that there were fewer apprentices than Witches...
This method of passing the flame by word of mouth, with a single lineage carrying it on, was the way of the ancient Wizards.
These Witches had preserved it remarkably well to this day.
As a powerful Level-3 Magician, Saine naturally had no intention of roaming the so-called world of ordinary humans.
Sightseeing among snow-covered mountains was not the purpose of Saine's journey.
Thus, after arriving in the Northern Lands through a Teleportation Array, Saine had mostly visited Witch settlements. He had even gone to several Wizard Towers that permitted outsiders to approach.
The Wizard Tower Saine was passing through at present was called Mei