In fact, the news that the Xinfei Merchant Guild had rejected the two demands put forward by the Mages' Guild Headquarters had not actually reached an audience of over ten million.
Although the New Moon Merchant Guild had installed Mana Illusion Projection Devices in almost every city across several countries in the southwestern corner of the Sains Continent, the combined population of those countries was still under twenty million.
Moreover, the Illusion Films shown by the New Moon Merchant Guild primarily targeted city residents, which limited their audience. By Xu Yi's estimate, their actual viewership might not even have reached thirty percent.
By that calculation, several million people probably knew about the news, but certainly not over ten million.
As for those who actually cared about the news and clearly understood its implications, they probably accounted for less than a tenth of those several million-only a few hundred thousand people.
Xu Yi was not particularly concerned about that, however. He had used such drastic means to make the matter public precisely to make it clear that he was parting ways with the Mages' Guild and would firmly refuse its unreasonable demands.
Those who cared about the matter would naturally understand the message Xu Yi and the Xinfei Merchant Guild wanted to convey through this news.
Among those people, the ones Xu Yi valued most were the low-rank mages in those several countries.
Of the two demands made by the Mages' Guild Headquarters, the first was to dissolve the Magic Machinery Patent Protection Federation. This had little to do with the vast majority of low-rank mages; it was simply a choice the Xinfei Merchant Guild had made to resist the headquarters' greed.
The other demand was to dissolve the Mage Association, which directly concerned the low-rank mages in those countries.
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