Ancient Four Elements Magic had already been mostly lost during that prolonged war...
This was a passage from the beginning of the Magic Book.
Before she knew it, another ten days had passed...
At the camp, Moss was looking at the Magic Book in her hands. Beside her lay many sheets of parchment already covered in incantations.
She picked up one of them and carefully compared it with the incantations in the Magic Book.
Incantations were also known as the language of magic.
The source of magic came from monsters' instinctive use of Magic Power.
But in ancient times, before monsters from other worlds had begun invading in large numbers, things had not been this way.
Back then, the miracles of the Great God Radmia had yet to fade from the continent, and divine power and divine revelations still echoed throughout the world.
Humanity's magic system had been built primarily on the Primal Four Elements—the "Prayer-based Divine Art System."
Back then, magic was not yet called magic. It was called divine art.
Prayers were phrases symbolizing worship and faith in the Great God Radmia and the Four Elements.
However, the phrases were excessively lengthy, and they also required responses from the gods and the elements.
Such harsh conditions restricted the development and use of Ancient Four Elements Magic.
Later, during the Realm Gate War, those lengthy prayers also caused large numbers of mages to lose their lives.
Prayer-based magic gradually fell into obscurity, and a new magic system was established.
During the Middle Ages, the Four Elements Magic system of the war period was known as the Spirit Evolution and Element Manifestation System.
In that era, humans abandoned the lengthy prayers. By imitating monsters' abilities, they sought to use the mind to guide Magic Power and recreate the process by