Chapter 129: Shining Spots

The play performed by the third-year students along with the first-year students caused a lot of talk. The reason is that it was very realistic; the illusions and the applications that magicians can create by performing such acts are immense. Moreover, seeing it firsthand was simply shocking—blood, suffering, and the performance of the "real" people impacted the audience greatly. Given that, for most of them, seeing this type of power performed by humans can invoke fear or awe, it can be interpreted that for common people, magic is almost nonexistent, only seen in books. They know it exists but don't truly know what it's like. This could be considered one of the negative aspects of the general public: their minimal knowledge of the real world and its true dangers. It is also for this reason that the rise of such a brilliant star, without any basic knowledge, is very strange, and thus, it is rare for commoners to enter the academy...