Sigh, I'll just keep things as they are, updating four thousand characters a day and scraping by on the full-attendance bonus. It's miserable-not a single monthly ticket, and barely any recommendation votes either. Extra releases? That's impossible now. It feels like this book has become a stagnant pool. Enough said. I'll stick to a fixed update schedule from now on.
Finding Arugal had not seemed difficult to Rex at first.
Arugal was no nobody. His ability to summon Worgen and research that branch of magic showed that he possessed extraordinary expertise.
If a low-ranking mage could accomplish that much, magic would have been far too commonplace, and the world would have been destroyed long ago.
Although Arugal was not a member of the Council of Six, he ranked just below them. He also held the title of Archmage.
That did not mean Arugal possessed Heroic-level strength.
One way to obtain the title of Archmage was to reach Heroic Difficulty in strength. Upon reaching that level, one automatically received the title.
The other way was to make an outstanding contribution in a particular field of magic. There were many such fields, such as alchemy.
Obtaining the title of Archmage through that route was hardly easy, either. An outstanding achievement had to be something tangible that everyone could acknowledge without reservation.
It was scarcely easier than increasing one's strength, so the mages in Dalaran who could truly qualify for the title of Archmage
were few and far between. There were barely any at all.
That made the title of Archmage highly prestigious. If Arugal had not been so absorbed in his research, he might have secured a place on the current Council of Six if someone stepped down.
Of course, that was only a hypothetical example. Without devoting himself to research, Arugal