Chapter 753

There was a wondrous spell that could make its target float a dozen or so meters into the air for a short time. It had therefore been named the Levitation Spell, but its wondrousness had yet to reach the level of truly freeing a person from the earth's pull. It was more like an enhanced "high jump."

The Hot Air Balloon Mariana and Nathan rode today had, by a conservative estimate, risen seven or eight hundred meters.

They toured the skies in the Hot Air Balloon, and even after landing, they remained immersed in the excitement of having touched the sky for the first time in their lives. Looking down at the world from such a height, they could see the landscape spread out below: forests, lakes, villages, and towns all lay within view. It was a novel experience unlike anything they had encountered before.

When they climbed out of the basket, Mariana lavished praise on the Hot Air Balloon, while Nathan, though unable to conceal the excitement between his brows, had also begun to feel uneasy inside.

He had once taken pride in magic, because it could accomplish things that ordinary people could never achieve no matter how hard they tried. But today's journey through the sky had dealt a tremendous blow to the beliefs he had always held.

How did Spellcasters understand magic? Throughout their long history, wizards had summarized certain "rules"—those obscure notes, complicated patterns, and gestures. Through them, wizards projected mysterious power from the spiritual world into reality.

Yet these "rules" could not be connected to the effects produced by magic through any logic known in the real world. In other words, they could not be deduced step by step.

It was just like how the sun rose after a rooster crowed.

Over time, Spellcasters had