They rested for a few more minutes, until some color returned to Kalien's face and he was no longer as pale as before. Only then did they begin the second dismantling.
The dismantling of "Footnote: Phantom Mist" went smoothly, though it was somewhat slower than dismantling "Prologue: Creation," and required greater precision.
Perhaps precisely because of that, dismantling "Footnote: Phantom Mist" required more Creation Points.
By the time "Footnote: Phantom Mist" had been fully dismantled, even a faint sheen of sweat had appeared on Angel's forehead.
He had to regulate the output of energy while also controlling the Golden Scissors with exquisite precision. Any flaw in any step along the way could cause all their previous efforts to come to nothing.
Fortunately, Angel was a wizard and possessed methods of controlling energy. Otherwise, this dismantling might truly have gone wrong.
However, this experience of dismantling book pages also gave Angel considerable insight. Before this, he had always felt that the Fashion Magic system practically spoon-fed its users. As long as one had a magic book in hand, one could use magic at will, without worrying about problems like "spell backlash."
But now, it seemed that he simply knew too little about Fashion Magic.
Those high-energy-consuming spells were no less intricate than a wizard's spells, and likewise required the mage to possess formidable control.
Still, Angel had some doubts about the Fashion Magic system. For example, wizards began casting spells by studying their essence. Only after thoroughly understanding their own field could they construct spell models and put them into practice. Fashion mages, on the other hand, seemed to start operating the moment they held a magic book. Did they truly never study the essence of Fashion Magic?
From the situation in Modern City, it seemed that very few mages studied