4 Mana Study (1/2)

It was about three hundred years ago when mana study had made a huge breakthrough.

Before this, mana practitioners during that era was only capable of emitting mana in a crude manner. The use of mana to attack by gathering them using their own mind control and throwing it to their opponent had become obsolete. Such a way of using mana wasted a lot of potential in mana.

The introduction of Mana Artifact made by the early Magic Engineers allowed all mana user to have easier, flexible and creative way of using mana. Aside from that, battles of mana practitioners has become more dangerous due to improving quality of Mana Artifact during the years.

Unfortunately, almost a century had passed but they were still stuck at the latest 5th generation of Mana Artifact. This generation of artifact introduced a way for mana users to integrate their mana to an element. Through the usage of this 5th gen artifact, the mana can be converted to a flame, water, wood, metal and others.

But now, further development of artifact has stagnated. The current direction of the research is the manipulation or control of elements through the artifact. There isn't any news about possible 6th generation at all.

Wallace was currently reading a book written by Aeolia Schien. It was a book about his story when he successfully created the 4th generation artifact, this breakthrough allowed mana users to control mana to enhance human brain. Strong memory, fast reaction speed, fast analyzation, this was called brain-boosting era.

During the introduction of this 4th gen, people had been skeptical about how would this be called another era of mana artifact, many was not convince about how it would change the mana users.

It has been a bloody war instead between two countries that proved how much important a brain-boosted mana user was. A small country who immediately adapted the 4th gen at all cost not caring about how expensive it was versus a larger country that still primarily used 3rd gen artifact. With mana user that could react almost instantly, battles last only in a few seconds and it could decide their life or death.

The victory of the smaller country not only specified the importance of the latest artifact but also talents.

That small country has a lot of talented people who was able to manufacture the 4th generation artifact. Their investment in advanced study of mana formation and array proved to be a very good move made by their country.

It was then the surge of Magic Engineers. It was said that only 28% of world population has mana affinity. The remaining 72% are normal people.

The 28% is a large amount with more than 5 billion population in this world. From this 28%, the 4% of it were people that has mana affinity but was extremely low.

Fortunately, even though Wallace was not capable of being combat magician he was not included in that 4%.