Chapter 166 - A Lesson In Magic Circuit Shenanigans (1/2)

”What is a magic circuit?” Primis touched her lips, tilting her head in curiosity.

”Let's say that, you need to create a fire.” Foel casted a spell that let her reconstruct an artificial torch. She then approached Primis and crouched, stabbing the small torch on the ground. ”To create a fire, you need to have oxygen and fuel. After that, an ignition is needed to spark life onto this torch.

”Mana is like a fuel, akin to this torch head that is covered with flammable substances, oxygen refers to the available material in the surrounding, and the ignition represents the magic circuit.”

A blue fire burned brightly under the shadow of those two petite critters. The fire was reflected on Primis' pupils, enticing her to do the same, if not bigger than the one that had been casted by the tanomobi.

”Wooaa! Aunty Foel! There is a small flicker of runic arrangements in the air on the tip of your finger when the fire starts, is that what you mean by magic circuit?”

”Kekeke, indeed. What I've casted is a 'spell', a series of magic circuits that works for one time activation and implementation utility.” Foel took out a blank paper from her spatial storage. ”As for what this magic circuit truly is, it's a series of 'gates' made by 'meaning' of any kind of language—even the made up one as long as the caster was conscious of what they had engraved.

”It's then arranged by a special property that only those who could perceive mana and gather them into their Athenaeum. This material is called the 'conductor'.”

Foel then taught Primis to draw a certain basic 'gate'. After that, she taught her how to connect it and created a 'pathway' of numerous 'gates'. Connecting the pathway ends onto each other had turned them into working command feedback.

A mana circuit had been carved.

”Magic Circuit? Isn't it called Mana Circuit?” Tuli approached.

”Prolonged junction of time had been turning every cultivation term into a bombastic amount of variation from region to region. Basically, they are the same heh.”

Magic Circuit or Mana Circuit, both of them are the same thing. In the beginning, it was called mana circuit but as the time went round and round the world, the term was altered and was mostly mispronounced as magic circuit because of the unforeseen Mandela effect.

This happened a lot for other things such as how people tend to use the word 'array' instead of 'formation', even though 'array' was meant to refer to a sequence of gates made from cultivated runic symbols used by the Primordials.

and the worst one happened to 'athenaeum' as it had been transformed into 'miniature realm' and 'mana sea' as far as the new generation messed up with the term made by their ancestors.

Primis was a fast learner. It was only a few minutes and she had memorized more than ten fundamental mana circuits while also starting to create her own interpretation.

”This is fun!” Primis took a prone position on the ground, wagging her legs with her hand on the pen that she used to scribble numerous circuits that were instructed by Foel.

”Next one is the 'timer' and 'looping' gates, these two were mostly needed in formation creation.”

”... I remembered that it took me six months to learn mana circuits because of how complicated it was, and here I'm seeing a child who had just made her breakthrough, managed to recreate more than twenty mana circuits faster than Madam Foel feasting on her snack—OUCH!”

One mana circuit didn't really do anything, only by being connected and circulated with one or more circuits then it could be activated.

The practical was finished. Foel then connected her and Primis' forehead with each other to channel their consciousness strings. By connecting her own to Primis' strings, Foel could perform an example that could be perceived by the Ourarian.

Only by utilizing the marked mana that came from someone's miniature realm, a cultivator could channel the existence of their own mana into a metaphysical material that could interact and harness the mana. This material was referred to as the 'conductor'.

Conductors had an alchemical and catalytic property that was able to manifest the magic circuit onto their intended programming by using mana as their fuel.

Hence why a person without access to their Athenaeum couldn't create this special material necessary for creating mana circuits.

Ten minutes had passed. After the repetition of the conductor's creation, Primis was able to create one on her own.

With precise mathematics and spell assimilation, Primis conjured a floating fire that always stayed in position a few centimeters above her finger tip.

”Fiyaaa!” Primis showcased the fixed burning plasma, opening her other unused arm.

”Fiyaaaaa!” Tuli followed Primis' gesture, and both of them soon giggled together afterwards.