"There's one crucial question, Colma."
Xiao Xiao spoke up, interrupting the witch's explanation. He adjusted his glasses and looked at Colma intently. "Whose Magic Power are you planning to 'transfer'? Which being—or which deity—does it belong to?"
"Being" was generally used for individuals beyond description but not beyond reverence: titans, giant beasts roaming the stars, and creatures of uncertain nature like Cthulhu, hidden at the heart of the dark world.
"Deity," meanwhile, was a title reserved for gods.
Either way, Xiao Xiao thought the target was far too powerful for Colma's team. From what he had seen, she was the only fully qualified wizard among them, and she had yet to graduate. The club's other members were mostly Tricksters with meager Magic Power.
Trying to move the stars overhead with so little strength was sheer overconfidence.
Yet only such "higher-dimensional" individuals could easily pass Magic Power to "lower-dimensional" Tricksters and achieve what Colma intended.
Using Magic Power from other wizards or Magical Creatures of the same dimension would be too inefficient to justify the effort. Wizards had tried collecting and converting other wizards' Magic Power before, with disappointing results. Worse, the process contaminated their own Magic Power until they lost their minds.
The German Grand Wizard Claudius and the British wizard Kelvin had summarized this effect as the second theorem of Magic Theory: Magic Power could not spontaneously transfer from a lower-dimensional individual to a higher-dimensional one. Nor could Magic Power drawn from a single source be converted entirely into a useful effect without producing other consequences.
Viewed another way, every higher-dimensional individual possessed immense magical strength, and an Ordinary Wizard would struggle to obtain power from one—unless they signed a contract with the likes of Lucifer, Mephistopheles, or Diablo, accepting harsh terms and pledging their soul as collateral. Only