39 What are the Magic Circles? (2/2)
”That's a very good question. For some, it is just a notion. This magician is a 2nd Circle magician, oh, that one, he is from the 3rd Circle. But what do they truly mean? Normally, you should have already talked a bit about the Great Calamities, am I right?”
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Some mumblings could be heard but the intonation was closer to a yes than a no. No matter what would have happened, Oscar would have continued nonetheless.
”So, you may have talked about the change of the Magic Circles before and after those dark events?”
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A bigger commotion arose and some clear ”Yes” could even be heard. One of them was the now smiling Istuienn that from the looks of it, loved that interaction. She had recovered from the shock of the cutting wind, unlike her companion that was still a little bit pale.
”So, since you know those two things, you already realized that it is just a notion created by the humans for the humans. If something even stronger than the dark gods arrived and casted a sortilege more destructive than theirs, the notation will once again change. However, since that's the case, we probably won't be able to do that.” The old teacher looked a bit depressed while saying this, prompting the motivated princess to inquire about it.
”But why? Since we managed to do that after the dark gods, why would we be incapable of doing it once again?” Oscar sighed at her pondering face and felt that he was a bit too pessimistic. But that was a truth established after those centuries of studying. If something stronger really appeared, the world would be doomed.
”Because they were capable of manipulating space as they wished. So, if something stronger than that was facing us, how hopeless the situation will be?”
Shock quickly spread among the students and this time, Leilade was also part of it. The Dark Gods were capable of manipulating space but still were taken down? Ignoring the visible advantage that this type of magic brought to the caster, something capable of preventing such magic was the appanage of only a few selected races. All were created by the Ancients but besides the traces of their creators, there was no trace of them. At the same time, this information needed to be given to Malakov as soon as possible, since those races were capable of hunting their small group of unharmed combatants without a problem.
Oscar kept talking about how the numerous conclave of magicians talked and talked about the numerous spells and their might before classing people into different categories. Those that had the knowledge, the affinity and the skill to cast a certain spell would be considered as a magician of that Circle. He was also explaining how a stronger magician could use a lesser spell more efficiently, like his [Fireball] would be stronger than a [Fireball] created by Leodagan. He concluded by explaining how only the way a magician was manipulating the mana around him dictated how strong he was.
While this could have interested greatly Leilade and the Viscount, right now, the two of them were heavily debating whether they should try to communicate right now with a big risk or wait a few hours for the lunch. The debate was won by the bodiless soul when he pointed the fact that to the knowledge of the humans, they won against the Dark Gods only because of the Heroes. And therefore, the spatial magic was visibly countered by either them or the gods watching them.
For a being made of energy like a god, to be able to temporarily prevent the use of the mana surrounding a being is a possibility. At the same time, it was not known if those legends were capable of even harvesting the strange mana created by the Ancients. If that was the case, the most probable outcome would be the fact that in the end, the foreigners of this world run out of mana and couldn't cast a spell. Even if all of this was only speculations from the two of them, the possibility of any of those peculiar races to be present was too dangerous to not be transmitted.
Leilade listened with only one ear the rest of the course and when Oscar dismissed them, he didn't even have the time to call her name that she was already gone. The old man grumbled a bit about the hot-blooded youngster but had no choice to acknowledge the fact that he had no way to catch her. As for Leilade, she didn't care at all and rushed immediately to her room where she fool-proofed her surroundings. Carefully probing one last time the archaic magical detectors to not be detected, she established a mental contact with her servant.