One of the girls in the front row raised her hand. "So, you're saying that if we want to be considered intermediate mages in your eyes, we need to be able to at least basically read the runes in an Inscription, and that it's not a matter of how much power we have?"
Wolfe nodded. "Exactly. You can be a Rank Two intermediate Mage, or a Rank Four Basic Mage, but if the Intermediate Mage is making the items for the stronger user, the outcomes will be superior to letting the simpleton make their own tools."
A few of the Nobles couldn't resist laughing. In Wolfe's eyes, of course, most of them were a bit simple. They couldn't even read the language they were casting spells in, they just copied them and made them work. Fundamentally, it was childlike magic use, simple mimicry that they celebrated and clapped their hands when they succeeded at.
