[Na: Xhoarun]
[Position: High Council mber]
[Description: A pragmatic genius. While he had creative ideas, he lacked any drive for innovation. When King Alhara recruited him, he played a crucial role in solidifying the king's absolute influence.]
[Status: Deceased (executed on charges of treason)]
What a sha.
Lucas shook his head. Even if he were still alive, Xhoarun would have been a wasted candidate.
There's no point in giving power to soone who doesn't desire change.
Besides, even though Alhara seed reserved, it's not as if they didn't make breakthroughs.
Aside from anti-magic chains, they had developed intriguing equipnt.
Take, for example, the Evaluation Crystal.
The concept had actually been shared by Lucas when he invited Thauren and Veera to his floating house, but he had never taught them how to manufacture it.
The Evaluation Crystal is a device that asures the potential of a person's magic seed, indicating its capacity for utilization.
The evaluation is simple: the higher the number displayed, the greater their potential.
Conversely, a lower number would label them as weak and... frail?
Lucas had considered this before. Prior to the First Extinction, Veera had been an Alhara woman capable of wielding three spells simultaneously.
However, during the repopulation era, she had beco soone who lacked energy.
The constant childbearing might have played a major role, but with modified hormones and reproductive organs, coupled with enhancent magic, it shouldn't have been a significant issue.
But what if it was caused by sothing else?
Magic seeds could be processed through the magical tabolism of the Alhara's 'additional organs', but what if not everyone have it?
Just as humans can be born with disabilities, aside from poor genetics, could magic also play a significant role?
Lucas could see how magic seeds might have a devastating effect on those who couldn't tolerate them.
Speaking of magic seeds, it wasn't just Lucas who seed curious and pursued research on them.
The Alhara proved that indifference to external circumstances could lead to a sharper focus on controllable matters.
With the Evaluation Crystal, leadership was no longer limited to bloodlines or succession battles.
Those who ascended the throne typically had the greatest magic potential and, alongside the king, were granted the title 'Xuilivinath' — the Grand Sorcerer, who governed through the law of the jungle.
Additionally, magic was now systematically categorized into three types.
The first was enhancent magic, referred to as buffs. This encompassed physical strengthening, sensory enhancent, equipnt fortification, and even cellular regeneration. Regarding the latter, Lucas was surprised as its effects mirrored healing magic and might eventually warrant its own categorization.
The energy shield surrounding the Alhara colonies was also created using large-scale, high-concentration buffs.
The second type was curses. These encompassed the opposite of buffs. A distinguishing feature of curses, however, was their ability to affect anything beyond the caster's control.
For instance, they could make a fresh apple rot, cause soone to suffer a fever for weeks leading to death, or even ... beast taming?
Lucas frowned. Wouldn't that, using the sa logic, make it a buff spell with a reversed function?
Lucas had hoped Irzhok's necromancy would fall into this category.
But it was never included in the curriculum.
Yes, curriculum. It was essentially a single handbook stored in the kingdom's largest library, but everyone had morized it through generational inheritance.
However, since it existed only as collective mory, no one fully utilized it.
So individuals knew advanced magic techniques, either through restricted knowledge or natural talent.
Certain elite families in the kingdom deliberately restricted access to advanced magic managent knowledge.
A seemingly ordinary spell could beco incredibly powerful if soone could control its concentration precisely.
The third type of magic was the most flexible in this regard. It dealt with controlling the world's elents and was simply nad elental magic.
For example, a baseball-sized fireball with low concentration would rely produce a brief sensation of heat and sparks that imdiately dissipated.
anwhile, a fireball of the sa size but with high concentration could pierce three layers of steel walls and spread an unquenchable fla.
This had beco a key combat strategy for the Alhara, continuously developed.
There were even rumors that every Grand Sorcerer had the potential to master a pinnacle spell called Alcatraz.
A spell capable of unleashing a massive, ultra-concentrated energy orb that could engulf its surroundings in annihilation.
It reminded Lucas of sothing. Wasn't that an anti-matter bomb?
Before escalating into a cosmic-scale conflict, Lucas had heard that Earth's civilization had developed similar weapons.
Nuclear bombs.
Apparently, magic bombs would soday be deployed against the Kaovren—a term that initially referred to the Hope race but now included other species deed a threat to outer civilization— when the skies brought their revelation.
This left Lucas in a dilemma. By 'skies', they ant... , right?
Lucas wondered. His floating house was currently soaring so high in the atmosphere it was nearly impossible to spot with the naked eye.
But with continually advancing magic capabilities, what if it beca possible?
Or was this rely part of the religious propaganda Thauren had spread during the repopulation mission?
Lucas was reluctant to interfere with Alhara's already developed progress. Yet sothing intrigued him.
When he choose magic seed as the foundations of world, Lucas expecting progressive, massive advancents.
And this was signaled by ... the dominant species gaining the ability to fly independently.
However, Lucas couldn't find any information about flight magic anywhere.
Even though three other continents remained unexplored, and even with today's technology, I'm sure a million tyrannosaurs couldn't stop them.
Still, Lucas appreciated Alhara's categorization of magic and chose to adopt it—for now.
So, flight magic might begin... perhaps with elental magic?
The problem lay in selecting the next worthy candidate.
[Candidate 1: Kaevhoris]
[Position: Commander of the Royal Guard]
[Description: An old sword mage who is serious about fulfilling his duties and obligations. He never questions any orders.]
[Status: Alive (58 years old)]
[Candidate 2: Nhaoruk]
[Position: Outer Fortress Squad]
[Description: A rebellious young man with low magic potential but a firm leadership presence. At just 19 years old, he is projected to beco the next commander.]
[Status: Alive (19 years old)]
[Candidate 3: Thyvarun]
[Position: Royal Food Taster]
[Description: A cunning food taster with a silver tongue. His intelligence is matched by an overwhelming ambition to seize the throne through political strategy.]
[Status: Alive (35 years old)]
Lucas stroked his chin. All three had potential, but after careful consideration, he decided the first candidate was too old and conservative, while the third was too selfish.
So his choice fell on the second candidate.
At least, until the notification appeared:
[This candidate has already been chosen as by an external party]
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