"Bang!"
Great Mage Rodick Gascoigne, president of the Mages' Guild, slammed his palm down on the desk before him. The thousand-year ironwood desktop trembled slightly beneath the blow, a testament to the tremendous force behind it.
Standing nearby, Great Mage Ferguson glanced at President Gascoigne's right hand, which was trembling slightly on the desktop, and could not help muttering inwardly.
Was the president trembling with anger, or had he hit the desk so hard that his hand hurt?
"This Xu Yi is practically rebelling!"
President Gascoigne's roar dragged Great Mage Ferguson back from his wandering thoughts.
Seeing the president's face almost contorted with rage, Great Mage Ferguson was inwardly taken aback.
He had served on the council of elders at the Mages' Guild Headquarters for thirteen years and had known President Gascoigne for over twenty. This was the first time he had ever seen him this furious.
That alone showed just how deeply Xu Yi and the Xinfei Merchant Guild had angered the president this time.
Of course, President Gascoigne was far from the only person angered by this. If anyone had the right to be furious, it was Great Mage Ferguson himself, as the person directly involved.
Damn the Xinfei Merchant Guild!
Their discourtesy toward him back then was one thing, and he could even have anticipated their disregard for the warning he had delivered on behalf of the guild headquarters. But they had actually dared to secretly record him issuing that warning with that Mana Illusion Projector thing, then show it publicly to millions, even tens of millions, of ordinary people in countless cities across several countries!
Whenever he thought of millions upon millions of people watching him arrogantly deliver a warning to that young woman named Akali from the Xinfei Merchant Guild, only for her to dismiss