The Magic Ban Festival was a traditional holiday in the Wizarding World. It was generally held one hundred days after the winter solstice, a week before the Qingming Festival. On this day, wizards voluntarily stopped using all spells, lighting fires, cooking, walking, and conversing like ordinary mortals. Thus, wizards also called this day "Mortal Life Day," meaning a day of mortal living.
The reason for such a strange festival was said to originate from an ancient tale passed down through the ages.
Legend had it that, long, long ago, an Archwizard lost himself in his pursuit of power and became a monster that hunted only wizards.
This monster was even more terrifying than demons. Most demons only ate wizards' flesh and drank wizards' blood, but this monster did not even spare their souls. Worse still, it could sense the Magic Power fluctuations produced when wizards cast spells and track down those spellcasting wizards.
To escape the monster's pursuit, wizards one after another abandoned their power, ceased casting spells, and began to live quietly like mortals—falling ill, growing old, and dying.
The advantages and disadvantages of doing so were both obvious. The advantage was that the monster could no longer hunt by following the Magic Power fluctuations generated by spellcasting, giving ordinary wizards some breathing room. The disadvantage was that this practice greatly suppressed the development of the entire Wizarding World, resulting in a massive break and regression in magical arts across the world for nearly a century.
During those dark years, most ordinary wizards were no different from mortals. They worked at sunrise and rested at sunset, trembling with fear of natural disasters and human calamities, as though standing at the edge of an abyss or treading on thin ice.
Only several years later, when warriors from all directions gathered