Three days later, when Xu Yi left Anvilmar City, he had acquired a detailed list of mages of the sixth rank and above registered with the Mages' Guild.
Xu Yi had wanted this information for a long time and had once discreetly asked President Parmes Allen for it, but President Allen had refused on the grounds of protecting the privacy of the guild's registered mages.
The copy he now possessed had been transcribed by Anko Allen himself from the records in the Mages' Guild's archive.
Strictly speaking, trading an IOU worth over ten thousand gold coins for this information was a terrible deal for Xu Yi, so Anko Allen had readily agreed when Xu Yi made the request. He thought Xu Yi could do little with the information, and it would cause no problems.
To Xu Yi, however, this information was very important.
The Xinfei Merchant Guild would still need large numbers of mages to join it as it continued to develop, especially higher-ranking mages.
Great Mages were naturally out of the question, so Advanced Mages of the sixth rank and above were the ones Xu Yi was determined to recruit.
With this information, he could use the personal details of these Advanced Mages to send targeted invitations to those the Xinfei Merchant Guild most urgently needed.
The records showed that there were currently fewer than five hundred mages of the sixth rank and above registered with the Mages' Guild in the Lampari Kingdom, including Xu Yi.
Compared with the nearly ten thousand mages registered with the guild in total, this clearly demonstrated that the world of mages formed an even more pronounced pyramid.
Xu Yi focused primarily on mages who were particularly skilled in one branch of magic, especially those proficient in wind magic.
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