There were way too many mages in Anril. Even Andoine, who held an important position in the Supreme Council, could only describe their number as "hundreds of thousands" when he talked with Lin Li…
However, hardly a thousandth of them had seen a Legendary-mage in person, much less witness a fight between two Legendary-mages.
This was not an exaggeration, as most mages in Anril did not know how Legendary-mages dueled; they were not much different from an average person in that aspect. Many mages thought that a fight between Legendary-mages would be as grand as the battles in historical records, where they hurled Legendary-level magic at each other, and that the Elemental Power would be enough to shatter the ground. Hence, they were thought to only use Archmage-level magic sparingly as an accent to the fight.