Mayumi Nanase did not know that, ever since the Nine Schools Competition, Fang Zheng had drawn the unanimous attention of the Ten Master Clans.
The reason was simple: an army was easy to find, but a capable general was hard to come by.
Although Magi did possess tremendous power, their social status was not particularly high. In this world, magic had not suddenly appeared out of nowhere. Magi had existed in the past as well, but back then they had occurred naturally. Once scientific principles had made magic analyzable, however, modern Magi were almost all the result of genetic modification.
Take the Ten Master Clans, for example: Ichijo, Nimiki, Mitsuya, Yotsuba, Itsutsu, Mutsu, Nanase, Yatsushiro, Kudo, Jumonji. Didn't that seem rather coincidental? How could anyone conveniently gather ten families whose names just happened to correspond to the numbers one through ten?
In truth, the Ten Master Clans, including the Eighteen Supplementary Families and the other Number Lineages, were artificial humans born from genetic modification experiments. Their family names had evolved from the code names of those test subjects.
This was what the Human Supremacists targeted. Much like the Newtypes in the Gundam world, they believed that those who gained magical power through genetic modification were not truly human.
But there was still a difference between the two.
Although Newtypes in Gundam possessed intelligence, reaction speeds, and other abilities far beyond ordinary humans, their physical fragility was no different from that of normal people. Without a Gundam, they could be knocked to the ground with a brick.
Magi were different. They possessed unparalleled power and could even prevent the outbreak of thermonuclear war. In that respect, modern Magi had practically become part of a nation's strategic arsenal.
Thus, unlike the Newtypes of Gundam, the government could not possibly abandon Magi. It