The Supreme Council and the various large/top-tier wizard organizations still needed to maintain face.
The original intention of this directive was to protect the interests of the middle and small-sized organizations.
However, it resulted in middle and small-sized organizations being completely excluded from the good fortune of recovering lost techniques, knowledge, and traditional schools of magic.
How could such a self-contradictory situation be allowed to become common knowledge?
It was better to keep it hidden, with only a select few in the know.
His thoughts drifted, but Link quickly pulled them back, refocusing on the task at hand.
Clearly, digging out and seizing lost magical traditions were things the major top-tier wizard organizations in the Mitchell District had a lot of experience with.
The new generation might not understand how to operate, but the middle generation who controlled the organizations, or even the older generation, surely knew?