The regular people (those with low rank like F rank and E rank and such) felt that Anthony was god in human skin.
The way he stood with the sun bathing him with a radiant glow, the spell basically wipping out almost every single demon in the Mortal rank, the spell that spanned the entire Academy Domain. (Even if they are low ranked they can still see further ahead than a person without mana, but not the entire Academy Domain).
His classmates had different reactions to a display of such power, the top twenty were more flabbergasted, Anthony's subodinate all wore smiles of admiration and defeat.
They were Anthony's subordinate didn't mean they didn't at least want to surpass him once in rank, but it seems they are still as delusional as ever, as even they didn't possess such an attack method.
Even some low level professors who were fighting some Grandmaster and Paragon level demons were shocked as they witnessed the impossibility of their lives.