"To put it bluntly, the vast majority of mages on this continent today have no idea what magic actually is."
Xu Yi's very first words plunged the audience into dead silence.
Reporters and ordinary commoners alike stared at Xu Yi in shock, unable to believe what they had heard.
Did this Xu Yi... even know what he was saying?
Even if he was one of the continent's foremost archmages, could defeat many other archmages, and was hailed by many as the most powerful mage on the continent, surely he couldn't be this arrogant?
The vast majority of mages had no idea what magic actually was? Was he the only one who understood it, then?
After the shock wore off, the crowd below erupted into noise.
The reporters whispered among themselves, sharing their different interpretations of Xu Yi's statement.
Yet every one of them thought he had gone too far. It was hardly something he should have said on such a public occasion.
The reporter from the Bunta Daily who had asked the previous question did not even bother raising his hand this time. He stood up and called out to Xu Yi, "President Xu, what do you mean by that?"
"What do I mean? Exactly what I said, of course," Xu Yi replied matter-of-factly.
The audience fell silent again.
The reporter was left thoroughly stumped by Xu Yi's answer. After a pause, he continued, "President Xu, can I take that to mean you are looking down on the other mages on the continent?"
Xu Yi could not help laughing.
The newspaper industry on the Sains Continent had only been developing for a little over a decade and lagged far behind its counterpart on Earth, but these reporters had certainly mastered the art of laying verbal traps. Even this reporter from