For the mages of the Sains Continent, there was a clear distinction and a considerable gap in strength between ordinary mages and Great Mages. The most important-or at least the most obvious-difference was that Great Mages could master spatial magic, while ordinary mages could not.
Further up the ranks, there was an equally clear distinction between Great Mages and Archmages, and this difference also lay in space magic.
Although ordinary Great Mages could master and use certain forms of space magic, such as the Spatial Teleportation spell that most Great Mages knew, they were still a long way from truly controlling space through magic.
Only truly powerful mages who reached archmage tier could use their extraordinary control over magic elements and their profound understanding of space magic to manipulate mana space at will, or even create independent mana spaces belonging exclusively to them.
Most mages called this mana space a domain-a domain exclusive to Archmages.
Both before and after appearing, Archmage Laduka had attacked Xu Yi, freezing the magic elements in the mana space around Xu Yi's body. Xu Yi could no longer control them and thus could not easily cast spells, while Archmage Laduka could. This was because Laduka had brought that mana space into his own domain.
Yet Xu Yi had easily neutralized both attempts, which had already stirred a trace of doubt in Archmage Laduka's mind.
His latest attack might have looked conspicuous, but it was an immensely powerful spatial magic attack, launched by gathering a vast amount of mana and condensing almost all the magic within every part of the mana space covered by his domain.
Against such an attack, a mage without a sufficiently thorough understanding of spatial magic had no way to defend himself.
In fact, no mage below archmage tier could possibly confront