In the Primordial World, only the great god Pangu had ever proven the Dao through strength.
In a magical world like this, trying to overcome all laws through brute force was absolutely impossible.
Not to mention that the will of the world forbade such a thing.
The mainstream supernatural powers of this world were magic patterns and mind-based magic.
They emphasized technique rather than power.
Take Hermione from the original story, for example.
Before she even came of age, she could cast the Undetectable Extension Charm.
Even in her lower years, she could use a Time-Turner to travel through time, all just to gain twice—or even several times—the amount of time others had for studying!
And with nothing more than a crystal ball, one could predict events that affected the course of the world.
Not to mention Horcruxes, the Sorcerer's Stone, and other things capable of toying with life and death.
Yet even so, he had never heard of these people, who could manipulate space and time, moving mountains, filling seas, plucking stars, or chasing moons.
Now that Alice had explained it, Cypher understood.
You could use skill to increase the damage of magic, but brute force producing miracles was absolutely forbidden!
At least, it was not allowed in the present world...
Click, click, click—
Under Alice's guidance, Cypher adjusted the mechanism into its proper position.
Then, a series of grinding gears and mechanical sounds rang out from the hundred-meter-tall, hundred-meter-wide gate.
At last, the intricate and profound magic patterns on the gate lit up one after another.
When every magic pattern on the gate had fully illuminated, the gate silently rose upward.
"Whoa! So this is a dragon's lair!"
As the sight before him entered his eyes, Cypher was briefly dazed.
When he came back to himself, his first