Life Magic, represented by the Highland Mage Corps, would always rank first among the Florian Empire's many mage factions.
The Florian Empire's rise to power had initially depended entirely on Life Magic potions. Because of this, even the Empire's legendary retainers needed to rely on the Empire, while the Highland Mage Corps could possess and govern a territory of its own.
The Highland's unique magical creatures were also inseparable from the Highland Mage Corps.
Extraordinary warhorses had originally been just one part of the Highland Mage Corps' research projects. It was only because they involved knights and the Extraordinary Legion that warhorse research became important.
Ryan had heard Mage Macken say that magical research into Highland Warhorses had stagnated long ago. Moreover, through exchanges with the Imperial Knight Academy, Northern Warhorses had now shown themselves to be no inferior to Highland Warhorses.
He wondered whether the Highland Mage Corps' offer concerning warhorses would be of any help to him.
"It certainly will."
Mage Macken gave Ryan this answer.
"The Highland Warhorse was, at the very beginning, a product of failure."
"My teacher led us in a Life Magic experiment concerning Deities."
Mage Macken spoke of a secret story from a century ago.
"At that time, because the Empire had blasphemed against the Deities, many substances of divine level fell from the sky or emerged. The Life Mages had no choice but to unite and form the Highland Mage Corps. Only by pooling their magical experience could they barely begin to analyze divine power.
"At first, my teacher proposed an idea: whether Deities might also be a kind of life."
"If Deities are also a kind of life, then could Life Magic affect their existence?"
"The original purpose of that experiment was to extract the source of life from the remains