"My two esteemed Archmages, it seems you never paid much attention to our Xinfei Merchant Guild." Having neutralized both Archmages' attacks, Xu Yi smiled and shook his head. "If you had, you would know that early this year, I published an article in Xinfei Magic Industry Weekly discussing certain issues concerning mana space."
Archmage Orphalian and Archmage Laduka exchanged a glance, their brows furrowing slightly.
Both were deeply traditional mages who had always regarded quietly studying magic and improving their own strength as the orthodox path of cultivation for mages, so they disdained magical tools that relied on outside assistance.
No matter how famous the Xinfei Merchant Guild was, they considered it nothing more than an unorthodox enterprise that borrowed external power, not something a mage ought to truly study.
Thus, before this, they had indeed paid little attention to the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
Even when Archmage Salandur Clay later went to the Xinfei Merchant Guild of his own accord to participate in research related to magic machinery, traditional mages like the two of them saw it as nothing more than willingly debasing himself, just as Archmage Camilla had done.
So although they knew Xu Yi had outstanding magical talent and had long since become a high-ranking Great Mage, they had never taken him seriously.
In their eyes, the strength of someone who devoted himself entirely to such unorthodox pursuits as magical tools, and even valued his identity as a merchant more highly, was hardly worth worrying about.
Yet now, Xu Yi had refuted them with the facts.
This fellow, who could only have become an Archmage a few years ago at most, had actually withstood a simultaneous, head-on attack from both of them.
He could even cancel out the effects of both their domains so effortlessly!
That alone qualified