When Kael suddenly received a communication from the demigod guarding the Golden City, he was a bit surprised.

It wasn't the fact that there is a demigod monitoring the Golden City in real-time that surprised him, but rather the foolishness of certain people.

Primarily, why would someone, without understanding the criteria for being called a Magic Monarch, dare to intentionally provoke?

Even if it's intentional provocation, it shouldn't happen to someone like Kael.

One can only say that reality will always have clowns emerging to lower your standards; you can never comprehend the thought process of these people.

Kael couldn't help but be thankful that his current identity is merely hanging under the label of an Incubus with original sin bloodline, rather than more peculiar identities that might provoke fierce backlash from moral guardians.

He wasn't worried about it; he merely found it amusing.

Without refusing the goodwill of the demigod's warning, Kael also sent a telepathic thanks toward the source of the communication.

He, ah, has always had this kind of personality.

As long as he remained well-protected, he never minded seeing things escalate.

After all, the essence of being a joymaker developed during his time as a player inevitably influenced some of his current decisions.

...

On the other side.

In another corner of the Golden City, the rogue mage Jora Hinton was anxiously pacing in a conference room.

Today was undoubtedly a tragic day for him.

Just because the Mage Festival was happening, the despicable young man who stole the fruits of his labor was probably eloquently speaking inside the conference room right now.

And he, Jora Hinton, stubbornly believed that he was truly a genius in Mage Academia.

He had always been dedicated to promoting his own Magic Theory to the outside world, even though his theory had received no recognition, and some magic journals directly rejected it, claiming it was inferior to toilet paper.

But, he still believed that his meticulously organized research achievements couldn't possibly be toilet paper.

Could toilet paper have the ink fragrance like his submitted manuscripts?

Later, after a publication succeeded in a marginal magic journal that few mages cared about, he could finally stand tall and tell others that he also made achievements in Magic Theory research...

Until that magic journal was expelled from Mage Academia for accepting bribes to publish Magic Theory, he realized that the journal had long been regarded as trash in Mage Academia for many "well-known" reasons.

The past experiences always made him somewhat irritable, and all these climaxed upon the arrival of the Mage Festival news.

Having mingled in Mage Academia for years, he did have some information channels, and from the channel, he heard a fragment about War Mage theory, which shocked him because it seemed somewhat similar to his theory.

An unprecedented shock left him unable to bear his internal anger, until a journalist from "Focus World Journal" used an intermediary to pass him relevant info, slightly easing his inner discontent.

Meet the reporter first!

Before that, he strived to make himself not look so much like a rogue mage.

To do this, already not having much money, he specially rented a seemingly decent Mage Robe, groomed himself, and came to the conference room waiting for the discerning reporter from "Focus World Journal".

To his surprise, when he arrived at the meeting room, he discovered himself not alone.

He saw many mages, and out of curiosity, after inquiring, he finally understood that all attendees today in the meeting room were invited by the "Focus World Journal" reporters.

In the room, perhaps due to the rogue mages being fed up with Jora Hinton's constant pacing, a rogue mage spoke to the slightly nervous rogue mage with a light-hearted smile:

"Mr. Jora, I hear that you think your theory can perfectly solve the prevailing issues in Mage Academia, and the core of the War Mage theory originates from your theory?"

Jora Hinton's attention was focused on other things and had little patience to answer his peers' questions, only casually saying:

"If you're referring to that issue, then yes, I think my theory can perfectly encompass the related theories of War Mage, like that damned Incubus's proposal, compared to my grander theoretical framework...

It's really negligible, and I truly can't imagine how those so-called Mage Forces let the so-called thief occupy the stage I was meant to step onto."

The surrounding rogue mages chattered, and someone else said, "Do you think your Magic Theory could extend beyond the War Mage to other Domains?"

Jora Hinton was momentarily stunned by the question, but soon a corresponding concept emerged in his mind.