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"Ancient Magic of the Age of Gods" (神代魔法,Shindai Mahō?) is a group of seven powerful magicalskills that worked as the origin and basis for all existing magical concepts in Tortus. Each and every existing form of magic used in Tortus is in some form a degraded version of these Ancient Magics. Each one of the seven magic’s govern over one core concept aspect of existence. Each of them could be granted to anyone that managed to conquer any of the seven Great Labyrinths of Tortus that were created by the seven members of the Liberators who were the original possessors of them.
Ancient magic was originally from a different world than Tortus, which got destroyed because of its civilization's over-reliance of it. The knowledge of this magic was brought to Tortus by the survivors of that other world, including the self-styled god Ehit. Prior to the Liberators' revolt against Ehit, each form of ancient magic had always been in possession of one of seven individuals throughout the ages.[1]
Types of Ancient Magic[]
Creation Magic[]
Creation Magic (生成魔法,Seisei Mahō?) grants the ability to imbue magical properties to minerals, creating a new ore with special traits. It is the only form of magic which allows the creation of an artifact. The true power of this magic is the ability to manipulate inorganic material.
Gravity Magic (重力魔法,Jūryoku Mahō?) grants the user control over gravity. The true power of this magic is the ability to manipulate the planet's energy. It can interfere with a planet's magnetic field or utilize geothermal energy like magma. It can be used to cause earthquakes or volcanic eruptions as well.
Spatial Magic (空間魔法,Kūkan Mahō?) allows the user to manipulate the space around themselves, allowing them to either bend or expand the space near them or move themselves to another space or location. The true power of this magic is the ability to manipulate boundaries. It can be used to create entire dimensions, as well as manipulate the boundaries between fantasy and reality.
Restoration Magic (再生魔法,Saisei Mahō?) allows the user to restore the state of anything to either its previous or original condition. The true power of this magic is the ability to interfere with time, meaning it has the ability to manipulate the time of anything, anyplace or anyone to a point the user desires to. It can also be used to look into the past, or potential futures based on set decision variables.
Spirit Magic (魂魄魔法,Konpaku Mahō?) allows the user to manipulate the soul of a living being directly. It's possible to revive a living being back from the dead (time restriction applicable), or transfer the soul of a living being from one body to another, or even into a non-physical body as well, practically granting any living being immortality. The true power of this magic is the ability to manipulate the incorporeal elements of sentient beings. This included heat, electricity and other matterless energy that circulated within a person's body. That also included memories, thoughts and consciousness. With enough skill, a spirit magic user can take those incorporeal elements, duplicate them, and create a new soul out of them.
Evolution Magic (昇華魔法,Shōka Mahō?) allows the user to enhance or evolve all other forms of power, be it strong or weak. It can work on even other ancient magics as well, boosting their power and scope. The true power of this magic is the ability to manipulate information. When it was used to strengthen someone’s stats or skills, it effectively overwrote the "information" of their abilities with something of a higher tier. Evolution magic can also be used to view the information of any person or object, as well as interfere with their total mana capacity.
Metamorphosis Magic (変成魔法,Hensei Mahō?) allows a user to remake the form of a normal being and reform them into a different form. Normally it's used to remake a normal organism and turn it into a monster, or even manipulate the magic stone of a monster and remake them. The true power of this magic is the ability to manipulate any organic material. Meaning not only animals, but it's also possible to remake plants or intelligent beings, and reform their structure as needed. Even byproducts of organic material, like paper or food, can also be manipulated by this magic. The magic stone which gets created during the process is just a byproduct of the process.
Concept Magic (概念魔法,Gainen Mahō?) is a form of magic which is a combination of all seven ancient magics. The main ability of concept magic is that it allows one to interfere with the laws of the world and impress concepts upon it. By raising up a powerful wish or desire with spirit magic and evolution magic, it can be raised to a level of a concept before being forcefully materialized with magical power. However, since the user's desire at the time of use, is used as the base of the magic, to raise up and create the concept, the spell may not remain stable in subsequent uses, thus a single spell can only be used once under most circumstances. However if the desire is still needed, it can be used more than once, like in the case of Hajime's crystal key which had the concept of "I want to return home" in it, was destroyed by Ehit, he was still able to recreate the crystal key again because his desire of wanting to return home was still there. It should be noted however that concept magic requires the user to concentrate on raising up their wish in order to materialize the concept. Also, some concepts aren't possible to materialize by the user on their own, for example, Hajime could only make degraded versions of the crystal key without Yue; or, should the emotions invoked was extreme enough, Hajime could realised something such as the "Deny All Existence", a concept magic came to be as the result of extreme grief and lost when Ehit took Yue's body - manifested physically as chains coated with his red aura - it is so vicious that even top-tier beings such as Apostles or god can be one-shot kill with ridiculous ease, for it rendered its target simply cease to exist upon contact.
For as powerful as concept magic can be, its equally demanding when comes to mana consumption - the Crystal Key requires Hajime and Yue to work together, and Deny All Existence drained Hajime's mana so hard that he briefly died - barely brought back via spirit magic - after disengaged the magic.
Affinity[]
Each person's ability to wield one or more Ancient Magics depends on their affinity. Some may work better than others for certain jobs because of their nature. For example, a Synergist can make best use of creation magic because their skills revolve around craftsmanship.
Those with high magical affinities are especially skilled with most forms of ancient magic and can make higher use of them. On the other hand, those with low magical affinitieswill only be able to use them in a limited capacity. For example, Yue, who's skilled in almost all forms of magic, can make high use of almost every type of ancient magic except creation magic, as she cannot use Transmute. The second example is Shea, whose magic skill is extremely low, can only apply it to herself. The only exemption appears to be evolution magic, as it focuses on enhancing and power ups, therefore anyone can use it to varying degrees, regardless of their affinity to it.
The closer an Ancient Magic spell is aligned to the fundamental nature of that magic, the more difficult it is to wield it to the point where most regular people couldn't use it, regardless of their affinity.[2]
In Ehit's homeworld, ancient magic is referred to as "Universal Laws."
Those who were born with one form of ancient magic were incapable of learning the others due to their souls being imprinted with the power to interfere with one of the fundamental laws of nature as birth, thus making it so they couldn’t be modified any further.
Hajime has managed to recreate the magic circle the that can bestow people with Ancient Magic.[3]
