The Mages' Guild Qualification Certification Examination had lasted a full ten days before the assessments for mages of level five and below were finally completed.
According to the Mages' Guild's figures, more than seven thousand mages of level five and below had passed the examination during those ten days!
Of those seven thousand mages, the majority were novice and Second-Level Mages, totaling nearly five thousand.
The remaining two thousand or so were mages of levels three through five.
By Xu Yi's standards, a mage needed to be at least a Third-Level Mage to join the Xinfei Merchant Guild's Magic Research Institute. Otherwise, they would not even have grasped certain basic magical theories, let alone be capable of researching improvements to the precise magic arrays required by magic machinery.
Novice and Second-Level Mages were still qualified to perform the most basic work of laying out magic arrays, however. If they joined the Xinfei Merchant Guild, they could work in its various factories, assembling the magic-array power systems at the heart of its magic machinery. Their salaries would still be considerably higher than those of ordinary workers, and their roles somewhat more important.
Thus, throughout those ten days, Xu Yi had been using Haines's connections to place extensive advertisements in the Anvilmar Daily, recruiting mages from all over the city.
Judging by the results, the campaign had been very effective.
Over those ten days, more than a thousand mages had approached the Xinfei Merchant Guild to ask about working for it.
Every two days, the Xinfei Merchant Guild organized a group of interested mages to board the Feilson Carriage Company's long-distance Medium Mana Buses running between Bunta City and Anvilmar City, taking them to visit and inspect the guild's facilities in Falling Rain Valley outside Bunta City.
According to the reports received