The Guardian System: The strongest Summoner's quest to save his family Chapter 392: City Like a Corpse (9)

Lower mana ant weaker monsters. Weaker monsters ant safer environnts for settlents. Safer environnts ant steadier leveling for the population.

It was a surrogate System; one to replace the automatic one the Allied Worlds had taken away.

It also ant that if the magic circles worked, they could slow the process of turning feral.

And they almost succeeded.

Reidar picked up the journal again and flipped to the back. Zhen-Gora had written Vor'len's theories.

The pages were filled with diagrams of magic circles, equations for mana flow, and lists of required materials.

The journal described a prototype ntioning tests where the circles had reduced mana density by thirty percent in controlled environnts. They were scaling up, preparing to deploy the technology across their major cities. If they had had more ti, they might have saved themselves.

But they didn't get that ti. The Allied Worlds abandoned them before they could prepare anything.

Reidar read the pages once more. His Advanced Spellcraft Mastery allowed him to understand the basic structure, but the specifics were far more complex than he could understand.

The geotry was different from the summoning circles he knew. But there were similar parts, which Reidar assud were related to the mana gathering parts.

Reidar looked around the room again, really seeing it this ti.

The Ignis had started from zero, like humanity did. When the apocalypse hit, they had nothing, and within two years, they were level 360 on average. Within three years, the Allied Worlds feared them enough to decide to leave them to their fate.

Six years since their apocalypse started, they were already creating solutions to not stay dependent on the allied worlds. That said, a lot about the Ignis and the Allied Worlds.

The latter were an interstellar alliance with ships, advanced technology, and the System itself.

Reidar doubted it was six years.

The system was too sophisticated and too integrated into the biology of different species to have been developed quickly.

It required an understanding of mana physics, genetics, and probably a dozen other disciplines that Reidar couldn't even na.

But the Ignis had done sothing comparable in six years while being hunted by monsters and mutating into beasts.

They reverse-engineered the system's core function and built their own version from scratch. That level of ingenuity was staggering. It made Reidar wonder what would have happened if the Allied Worlds had given them more ti.