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"If I can keep living happily with mother like this, I don't need a 4th life."

Although the text does not give a definition of what magic (魔術 ()) is, it can be thought of as the art of directing the energy called mana that fills the world according to one's will, then causing various physical phenomena. Its users, especially those who excel, are called mages (魔術師 ()), and those who are less so are called magic-users (魔術使い ()).

Attributes

Although also not mentioned in the text either, there are some events that are easy to work with and others that are not for the various types of mana that exist in each world, and these are called attributes (属性 ()). Very rarely do the attributes of each cancel each other out completely, and sometimes several attributes can handle the same event. For example, mages of the fire and water attributes are both skilled in dealing with heat.

Magic and Imagination

Magic is oriented toward the will of the user. It is supported by the fact that the results of its use are significantly influenced by the user's knowledge and imagination. For example, a mage from a cold region who is familiar with snow and ice can create ice better than a mage from the tropics who has never seen ice.

Aptitude, Talent, and Training

The aptitude for attribute magic is the individuality or ability of each soul to transform and release the no-attribute mana present in the body into mana with the respective attribute. No one can emit mana to which the soul does not have an aptitude.

Souls belonging to Earth and EARTH have no aptitude for any attributes.

In Origin and Lambda, with extreme exceptions, all people are born with an aptitude for at least one attribute, excluding the death-attribute. In Lambda, however, many people do not learn magic at all. This is due to a lack of training opportunities or a poor innate mana pool or Intelligence that makes training difficult.

In Origin, almost all receive rudimentary training in magic at the elementary level of education.

Various Forms of Magic

Spell: The term "magic" usually refers to this form of magic. The mana in the caster's body is directed by the will to cause physical phenomena. Usually, the caster must utter the desired form, a procedure called chants. This can be omitted by acquiring a skill such as chant revocation.

Alchemy: A form of magic that produces magic items that can be used by anyone. There are two ways to use alchemy: one is to create medicine and the other is to create items that can be used repeatedly. If the user does not have enough mana to use a reusable item, it can be compensated by consuming a magic stone, a crystallized form of mana.

Spiritual Magic: A form of magic in which a spirit of each attribute is given the caster's mana to have them exercise magic. It is impossible to use magic for which one has no aptitude since one can only negotiate with spirits that match one's aptitude.

Dead Spirit Magic: A form of magic in which, a ghost with a specific attribute at the time of death or immediately afterward is given mana of the death-attribute mana to have them exercise magic in a spirit's place. Although it is necessary to have a different ghost for each attribute, it is more applicable than spirit magic.

Various other forms of magic exist, such as curses, Magic Fighting Technique and qigong. Most of these above are divided into the following attributes depending on the type of mana handled.

The different magic attributes according to researchers on Origin.

• No-Attribute Magic
• Light Magic
• Life magic
• Death magic
• Fire Magic
• Water Magic
• Earth Magic
• Wind Magic
• Space Attribute Magic
• Time Attribute Magic

Medicine

Treating diseases with magic is considerably difficult, and different spells are needed to cure different illnesses. There are people who have the Disease Resistance skill and Poison Resistance skill, but they’re quite rare.

"neither the Amid Empire nor the Mirg shield-nation’s plans to deal with an epidemic were very sophisticated. They knew of soaking affected parts in alcohol or hot water, but there were no antibiotics in this world. Potions, healing spells and resistance skills existed in their place, but as dealing with diseases went, they were imperfect. Though there were Potions to treat diseases, they were expensive and didn’t work against all kinds of diseases. It was more commonplace to drink antidote Potions to neutralize toxins that had accumulated in the body to lessen the symptoms. The development of healing spells was slow and they were not very advanced. Even if a cold was cured by increasing Vitality, using the same spell on a cancer patient would cause cancer cells to metastasize all over the body and cause the patient to die almost immediately. Treating diseases with spells would be impossible without advancements in anatomy and physiology, knowledge of how the body works and how pathogens affect their hosts, and technological innovations. As for resistance skills, few adventurers and knights possessed skills that granted resistance to disease. Most monsters possessed resistance to poison rather than disease, and assassins and mercenaries used poison rather than disease anyway. That was why Poison Resistance was fairly common, but Disease Resistance was rare. Those with such weak constitutions that caused them to fall ill frequently enough to acquire resistance skills wouldn’t think to become adventurers."

Mage-type jobs

Main article: Category:Mage Jobs

Mage-type jobs ordinarily provides low bonuses to vitality, strength and stamina.