Grandmaster Patrick Finch wore an amused expression as he stared intently at Wizard Zeno under everyone's gaze.
Wizard Zeno felt his gaze prickling like needles, but he chose not to retreat. He immediately narrowed his eyes and glared back at Grandmaster Patrick Finch, even though the latter was a Sun-Ring Wizard.
The Third-Ring Wizards showed no reaction as a group. They had not taken Zeno's astonishing words to heart; some had not even raised their heads to look at him. Only the Green Dragon Witch and Fischer Wizard glanced at him before continuing to record the data with their magic quill pens.
Witch Catherine, meanwhile, sat in the audience. She finally put down the Lingzhi Magic Plant in her hands and stopped handling her affairs, instead looking up at her proud disciple.
The Sea Queen Throne raised her head and gave a cold laugh.
At the same time, the thirty Second-Ring Wizards forming the review panel all frowned. The small amount of goodwill they had developed after seeing Wizard Zeno's impressive credentials had mostly vanished, replaced by deep suspicion.
Could someone who spoke so irresponsibly be trusted with the application he had written?
For them, it was easy enough to judge whether an application was good once it reached a certain standard. What was more important, however, was determining the ability of the person who had written it, and that was extremely difficult.
After all, in this world, famous people often lacked substance, while those with substance were not necessarily good at bragging or making others feel that they were impressive. As a result, they were not always famous.
There were plenty of people who were famous but lacked substance, and plenty who had substance but remained unknown. Having encountered so many of them, the reviewers naturally dared not make