Currently, of all the people here, professor Crumb was the only one who had a proper feeling of how powerful he was.
Currently, he looked extremely strong, taking control of most of the magical elements in the air around them. Yet in reality, he didn't do so good. His control wasn't like a ball as it should be, it was like a balloon instead. When you touched it, it seemed sturdy, but you only had the pierce the outside for the entire thing to explode. His power was unstable.
Back in the third central war, Julius Reptinan Vallia was one of the ten most powerful people on the central continent. Near the end of the war, he was in the top five.
But in the final battle, they lost. The monarch died and Julius got mortally wounded.