Xu Yi spoke in a torrent, explaining things to the seven Archmages for well over half an hour, yet he still could not make them understand what it meant to "view magic through a scientific lens."
Xu Yi felt helpless.
These seven Archmages had grown up on the Sains Continent. Unlike children on Earth, they had not been taught to develop a scientific outlook from an early age, so science naturally meant little to them.
Moreover, they had spent decades studying and researching magic under traditional magical principles. It was only natural that they found new ideas harder to accept than the newly enrolled children at Xinfei Academy.
Xu Yi had never expected them to truly understand the concept in such a short time. The reason he had spent so long explaining these things to the seven Archmages, even under these circumstances, was simply to make them recognize one fact.
That fact was that traditional magical thinking had fallen behind the times. None of the two empires' Mages, including their Archmages, had any power left to stop the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
Although the seven Archmages still felt somewhat reluctant to accept this, they had to admit that Xu Yi was right. It was simply the truth.
"Actually, if I had a choice, I wouldn't want to fight this war," Xu Yi said earnestly. "The destruction war brings is too terrible, and to me, almost entirely meaningless. Yet without a war, both I and the Xinfei Merchant Guild would face a great many obstacles. For example, without this war, I doubt I would have had an opportunity to speak with all of you as equals, as I am doing now."
"No. As a fellow Archmage, you would certainly have had an opportunity to speak with us as an equal." The Candel