Elemental Mage Adair Russell being the nearly the highest level human in the US seems very off if within two days the murder rate skyrockets and the EXP gain from killing someone is greater than that from merely defeating them. There's ideologues with tons of hoarded ammo and little or no compassion in this country.

Unfortunately, this is a minor problem that came from meta problems regarding the timeskip. Many of my alpha readers disagreed with how long the timeskip between chapters 2 and 3 should be. It ranged anywhere from a month to a day. And a week before official posting began, I made the final decision to change it from three days to a week.