The Grand Arcanist was undoubtedly Liszt's idea. He felt that the lack of magazines and newspapers in this world truly made for an entertainment wasteland.
But there was no point in running a newspaper, because without reading one, he could already know everything that happened within his territory. With the Magic Guild's repeated improvements to the magic platform, they had now entered the era of Magic Platform 5.0: miniaturized, standardized, confidential, and convenient.
He could receive messages from every corner of the territory anytime and anywhere, while dedicated retainers organized the reports and delivered them to his desk.
Thus, there were no newspapers, but there were internal bulletins, circulated mainly among officials and nobles.
Still, as white paper became increasingly widespread, the territory's publishing industry began to flourish. Coupled with his deliberate reform of the mage system, he instructed the Magic Guild to publish The Grand Arcanist, an academic journal meant to spur the territory's mages onward in pursuit of honor and encourage more inventions and creations.
Lucy never missed an issue of The Grand Arcanist. She hoped that one day, she too would appear in its pages and become a cover figure.
She was currently reading a report on Gandalf Truth.
This Grand Mage Gandalf came from the Golden Emerald Grand Duchy, a vassal state of the Eagle Kingdom. When he arrived, he had not come alone; he had brought eleven mage apprentices and a large number of magic apprentices with him. Unlike ordinary mages, who cherished their brooms as dearly as their lives and kept to themselves, Gandalf enjoyed teaching magic.
After learning that a Magister had been born in the Sapphire Grand Duchy, Gandalf had led his disciples across a thousand miles to Sapphire on a pilgrimage.
After visiting the Magic Guild, he immediately decided to stay