Sorcerers' magic actually had something to do with science.
The law of conservation of energy, for instance.
The greater the energy obtained, the greater the price that had to be paid.
Bringing a Hell Lord into the human world required more than grabbing a few random people as sacrifices.
Apart from Agnes before him, perhaps only his sister could meet that energy requirement.
John's indifferent gaze scrutinized the frozen woman.
Bewitching people's minds.
That was one of the impressions ordinary people had of witches.
Many believed that witches had ensnared and beguiled those absurd queens and kings.
That had also contributed to the witch burnings of the Middle Ages.
Compared with wizards, "frail" ordinary people had nevertheless used their intelligence and iron swords to wage this crusade against the supernatural.
They believed fire was the way to kill witches.
They were not actually wrong. As long as they set a witch ablaze before she could cast a spell, they could succeed.
The United States had seen the Salem Witch Trials.
That was also why its former Wizarding Nation Congress had kept ordinary people at a respectful distance.
Leaks had once forced the enormous Wizarding Nation Congress to relocate several times.
Wizards' emotions were more intense than those of ordinary people.
Before magic schools appeared, there had been cases of young wizards exposing their kind through magical damage caused by emotions they could not control.
Even now, such incidents still occurred.
Some wizards could never be swayed once they believed something, such as Mr. Xenophilius Lovegood, now a famous television host in the Wizarding Nation, who stubbornly believed in creatures like Nargles.
Experts on fantastic beasts had repeatedly stated that none of those things existed.
Mr. Lovegood stuck to his convictions, pursuing his explorations to prove the existence of the creatures