"The biggest obstacles on the path of arcana are still stubborn old fossils like this, who never know when to back down!"
In Nevis City, Roland received an email and sighed from the heart.
News soon arrived from Ailameng that Opani had clearly recognized his earlier mistakes.
Yet he still refused to repent, privately assembling a team to compete with them.
After all, repenting would mean surrendering his authority and position, along with his influence in the arcane world.
Fortunately, Roland had never expected someone like him to give those things up willingly.
After sorting all this out, Roland sent Moningia and Varian an email each to discuss their next move.
These grand mages of the younger faction reached a consensus: they would seize this opportunity to bring the old fossil down, rather than let him keep throwing his seniority around and doing as he pleased.
"You could perhaps use the results of converting Seris into runes to redefine the Elements School's runic system and arcane marks..."
Roland offered them a suggestion, urging them to actively expand their influence and claim positions of authority.
In Ailameng City, Moningia and Varian met to discuss it.
"Have you seen His Excellency Roland's suggestion?"
"Yes."
"I think I understand what he means, but can this really work?"
What Roland had sent them were the entries from the periodic table of elements: hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, neon...
These Seris characters and their corresponding magical constructs-runes-could be used to deconstruct elemental runes anew, along with the magical marks for powers such as earth, air, water, and fire!
"This will undoubtedly be a major transformation.
"A transformation that frees us from elven cultural influence and turns toward Seris."
Both of them were somewhat hesitant.
Different scripts and languages described new things