This year's Qualification Certification Examination held by the Lampari Kingdom Mages' Guild might well have been the largest in its history.
According to the Mages' Guild's figures, more than eight thousand mages had signed up for this year's examination!
The total number of mages in the entire Lampari Kingdom was only a little over ten thousand.
In other words, nearly eighty percent of all the mages in the Lampari Kingdom had come to take this examination!
Although last year's total had already approached five thousand, offering an early indication of this trend, the sudden jump to over eight thousand this year left everyone in the Lampari Kingdom Mages' Guild run off their feet.
Had President Allen not prepared a contingency plan in advance, this Qualification Certification Examination would likely have thrown the Mages' Guild into chaos.
Even with those preparations, however, the dramatic increase in participants forced them to extend the customary one-week examination period to half a month.
And even though the allotted time had more than doubled, each day's examination schedule remained extremely tight, keeping the Mages' Guild staff working from morning to night with almost no time to rest.
Yet not one of them complained. Unlike in previous years, President Allen had announced that, in view of the increased workload during this year's Qualification Certification Examination, every staff member would receive a special allowance, provisionally set at two gold coins per person per day.
At two gold coins a day, half a month meant an extra thirty gold coins in allowances.
That was a substantial sum for every member of the Mages' Guild's staff, and naturally sent their enthusiasm soaring. No matter how busy the work became, nobody complained. Instead, they worked with exceptional diligence and care, allowing the Qualification Certification Examination to proceed smoothly with very