Magecraft and Science

[ 1st Century , Ancient Greece , Cosmara ,Year: 64 A.D. ]

PoV : Svetlana Arya

Magecraft, the system of arcane arts prevelant among humans after the decay of Mystery became prevelant and Human progress in science reached new heights, developed by the Third King of Israel often referred to as the god's chosen King Solomon.

Magecraft is the manipulation of Magical energy shaped around the manifestation of predetermined natural and sub-natural phenomenon drawing power from the thaumaturgical foundation of mystery laid by the research and preservation of the Universe by the Mage association or Families stretching as far back in time as the age of gods , it generally involves the usage of crests or rituals with a set core of thaumaturgy usually drawing from the undiscovered phenomenon of the universe or Myths and legends and reinacting them by using one's magical power.

In the Type Moon world Mystery was in constant degradation due to the slow death of Gaia and the eroding winds of Velbar that caused the death of Gods yet despite the Planet and the will of Humanity constantly attempting to weaken it Magecraft had incredible potency even in mordern times .

Some examples like , Lorelie Barthomeloi ,Caubac Alcatraz, Kirshtaria wodime , Shiro Emiya , Manak Sajyou and many more .

Unlike the Magi in fate i had no such weaknesses as the world around me did not resist formation of any magical formation and was much more accommodating to Mystics than the Type moon universe , as the species were abundantly present even during the mordern times and no weakining of magic was ever mentioned by anyone of the long lived people like Cade, Qetsiyah or Esther .

However upon further research into Phantasmal species i found mentions of Multitudes of Magical beings mentioned such as Dragons ,Harpies and Sirens.

Weirdly no mention of such creatures was ever made in the shows that i had watched , mayhaps the latter released iterations of this Universe contained the information about them ? I wouldn't know .

Recently, my life had taken a monotone hue with me repeating my actions almost like a robot with a clock , studying and furthering my magecraft while simultaneously keeping tabs on the recent happenings within the empire as i looked for an opportunity to take over the empire for the furthering of my own agenda.

Occasionally this hue would be broken by lovely talks with Qetsiyah over magical theory, Politics and sometimes worldly topics, while i still had traces of indifference still left from my old life i was determined to not myself recede in a cycle of unreachable goals all over again, Understanding myself and others is the path i had decided to take and understand love .

[Timeskip: 3 months ]

While not in complet isolation i had dedicated a significant portion of my time towards developing a different path of arcane arts while taking the advantage provided by Fate Magecraft system and also including the formations and arrays from the already present magic system used by the witches in Greece .

The results were phenomenal i had made Ten Rings for myself using the varying magical arrays and my own blood , the rings functioned as anchor points of set calculations and magical formations pertaining to things like Analysis, Body strengthening ,Healing (soul and body), Elemental domination, Soul protection from hexes and other types of curses , magical projection, while the remaining rings would soon function as my connection to the Grail system , workshop and Mainframe of the giant Arcane Processing Unit similar to a super computer that i had plans to make in the future .

For now the three spare rings worked as extra Prana collector and magical Foci for me. These creations are not wasteful investments made on whims instead these will function as a pivotal step to self assurance in a world where might makes right and also for the Upgradation of my body beyond human capabilities and a Magical armour with immense firepower.

Obviously making such artifacts had their fair share of difficulties despite having the power to conjure almost all magecraft (as far as i tried) , turns out crafting complex magical items required different set of conditional rituals and power set ups in order to actualize them , the rituals going as far as a pool of blood from Magical sources to utilizing celestial occurences to fuel their formation, but all the methods seemed far too inefficient to me and these methods required me to expose a lot of my magical capabilities to others which i frankly had no problem with me but i preferred to hold my cards as wild and unknown to others as possible , so i settled on Hunting monsters around the borders of the town collecting their soul into pure od and moulding artifical magic circuits in the rings and tethering concepts to them.

The sources of inspiration for these rings were Solomon from fate and Mandarin from Iron man .

Solomon had the ability to reset the entire Human order and history , command 72 daemons of immense power and Command the combined power of entire human history burned and sacrificed in the form of pure lights that transcend Time and Space . Ars Almadel Solomonis , something capable of incinerating entire timelines with one single attack.

While Mandarin's Rings had their own uniqueness such as access to Quatum Realm , Unconditional Immortality and Superhuman evolution .

Now the only thing left for me to do was know my Origin. That goal perfectly aligned with my goal to self discovery as in fate terms a person Consciously or Unconsciously dictates one's actions and personality throughout their respective lives , i just have to go on a Journey of self discover and retrospection in order to find my most suitable origin ; Or i could just use philosophical concepts on information and its timeless nature to figure out my Origin.

All things in this world carry Information in certain patterns that are repetitive and common accross the grand scale of things , While in Human perception we experience a certain arrow of time . But things don't really happen in such a way , in Quantum mechanics most equations are time symmetric which don't distinguish between past and future , while things like entropy discredit this theory in some ways . It still remains undeniable that Information is never really destroyed it is just arranged in a different set of pattern distinguished feom its previous arrangement .

Similarly i could theoretically trace back to my origin using the present data on my soul and maybe even find a way back to my old world , but thats just a Theory despretly in need of practical experiments.

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A.N.

I am sorry for the absolute radio silence but i had to deal with some back logged studies and as i previously said i am a Highschool student its pretty tough getting the time to write not to mention the serious case of Writer's Block.

[P.S. : This chapter is not edited using any software like Chat Gpt or Grammarly so there might be some mistakes ]