Archmage Camilla had, of course, heard those two names.
Indeed, anyone who knew anything about matters concerning mages on the Sains Continent should have heard those two names.
Just a few years earlier, those two names had even represented everything Archmage Camilla aspired to.
The reason was simple: both men were archmages.
Archmage Camilla took a deep breath, struggling to calm the turmoil in her heart, then asked Levin Hasoko gravely, "Have you two come because of what happened to the Mana Magical Kingdom?"
The Mana Magical Kingdom was considered the third-greatest power after the Candel Empire and the Malo Empire not only because it possessed the continent's strongest mage legion, but also because it had no fewer than five archmages. That put it behind only the Candel Empire and the Malo Empire, which had nine each, and far ahead of every other country on the continent.
After all, including Archmage Camilla, there were only twenty-eight archmages on the entire Sains Continent.
Subtract the eighteen belonging to the Candel Empire and the Malo Empire, and only ten remained. The Mana Magical Kingdom alone possessed five-fully half of them.
Combined with its powerful mage legion, this gave the Mana Magical Kingdom magical strength far beyond that of any country on the continent other than the two great empires.
Levin Hasoko and Salandur Clay were two of the Mana Magical Kingdom's five archmages.
Thus, upon hearing their names, Archmage Camilla's first thought was that they had come because of what had happened to the Mana Magical Kingdom.
"You could say yes, and you could say no," Levin Hasoko answered with a smile. "Long ago, the continent's mages established a rule: archmages must not intervene directly in wars between countries. So we haven't come over your Xinfei Merchant Guild's attack on the Mana