It was about three hundred years ago when mana study had made a huge breakthrough.Before this, mana pract.i.tioners 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 pract.i.tioners has become more dangerous due to improving quality of Mana Artifact during the years.
Unfortunately, almost a century had pa.s.sed 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 a.n.a.lyzation, 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 b.l.o.o.d.y 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%.
It was also included in the book that he was reading about how Aeolia came up with the 5th generation of artifact after 52 years when he introduced the 4th gen. Due to almost all mana user adapted to 4th gen. It was realized that the offensive or destructive power of mana users were severely lacking. At first, it wasn"t noticeable as with the fine manipulation of formless mana by the mana user. Every move they made was deadly.
It was only when all mana users got used to this brain-boosting artifact that they realized how difficult it was to get an upperhand. There are even cases of fight between two mana user lasting for more than a day but still no one got an upperhand in the fight. It was like a battle of attrition instead and will determine who has a larger pool of mana.
If both mana user fought with same 4th generation artifact. The manipulation of formless mana to attack or defend is how they fought. Obviously, with the breakthrough made by Aeolia, the way how the mana users fought was changed.
The creation of 5th gen was also the start of calling mana users a "Magician". It was because of how a mana user previously controls the formless blue light of mana and was changed to a control of elements as people see it.
Magic Engineers in recent years acc.u.mulates prestige and honor by creating a different path or way on how elements can be used. Although the 5th gen was over a century old already, the creative way of using elements has given the magic engineers a lot of roads for development. Creations of different mana artifact can make the combat magicians capable of adapting to any situations and fight in any form of environment which can also give advantage depending on how mana artifact was made.
Wallace was now on his way to the Academy and he was reading the book again as he found something unusual on how Aeolia died. He found that Aeolia seems to be hinting about the possible path for further development of Mana Artifact. Wallace kept it in his mind and stored his book on his bag. He"ll think more about it later.
He was now on front of the academy. A part of the huge gate is open for the students to come in. He got the present from his parent. It was a memory crystal containing their clans knowledge about some specific elemental pathway on mana artifact forging. It contains advanced knowledge that Wallace needed.
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His plan of retrieving "his" body and s.p.a.ces.h.i.+p will completely start once he qualified on the compet.i.tion.
"I should start earning money."
Apparently, it was costly to become Magic Engineer. If he relied on using the resources given by the Academy, improving to the point of topping all the students will be difficult.
It was then that he heard a voice in his head.
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