[0814] The Price of Being Uneducated

Sylas was a little confused.

Judging by the guards' reaction, had the thing he'd just destroyed not been a defensive magic array?

They said it was... a sound-transmission array?

Did that mean these arrays were used to transmit sound?

But he clearly hadn't sensed any sound from it!

And according to his perception of magic, this array wasn't connected to anywhere. After he destroyed it, no one should have noticed!

Why was this happening?

Clearly, though Sylas was a wild talent with astonishing gifts, his lack of education meant his understanding of magic was far from profound.

In Demacia, where magic was forbidden, Sylas could proudly say, "No one understands magic better than I do." But standing before professional Hextech users, his perception of magic could only give him a glimpse of the whole picture.

Having never studied basic magic theory, Sylas obviously didn't know about magical resonance, much less the high-fidelity transmission of sound or wireless resonance arrays. He could only see that identical-looking arrays had been drawn around the Grand Plaza. He had no idea that everything about them, from where they were drawn to the way they were drawn, had been planned with extreme care and precision. Their purpose was to turn the entire Grand Plaza into a loudspeaker, so that everyone there could hear Lux's voice clearly.

And because of the resonant nature of high-fidelity transmission, these arrays were unlike common magic. They didn't need to be connected to one another, yet if even one of them developed a problem, every Hextech user maintaining the arrays could sense it clearly.

In Sylas's eyes, they were "defensive arrays" that he could "destroy one by one once the guards were dealt with." In reality, they were "loudspeaker arrays" where "if you destroyed one, everyone would know."

So his