The Gray-Robed Man took a strand of Faust's hair.
Once they had taken it, they began casting their magic. As the former second-strongest Wizard family, the Castro Family possessed many spells, and they had even sealed Gods before. Listening to their strange chants and watching them trace out magic glyphs, Bruce could not help feeling envious. This was what he had been pursuing ever since becoming a Wizard.
With sufficiently powerful magic, he would truly be a powerful Wizard.
"You don't need to envy them. A Wizard's foundation lies in the power of magic and magical knowledge. With the corresponding knowledge and power, you are already a very powerful Wizard."
"If you keep pursuing powerful runes and incantations, you'll be neglecting the essentials to chase the trivial. That won't lead to anything good."
"You can trust me. I won't lie to you."
Dusk said this as a fragment of a God's reason. He also possessed the God's memories and knew certain things about the Gods of magic-secrets utterly unknown to humans.
In human terms, they could be called explosive revelations.
As everyone knew, any Extraordinary who used magic drew their magical power from the God of Magic, borrowing that God's strength. The runes, incantations, and other tools that Wizards wielded came from the Demigods serving under the God of Magic. The four most important were the God of Arcana, the God of Matrix, the God of Communication, and the God of Potion. These four Gods each governed one of magic's four aspects: magical knowledge, runes, incantations, and potions.
The runes, incantations, and other tools Wizards wielded all came from these Gods. By combining them, Wizards could achieve the powerful magical effects they desired, such as summoning floods or calling meteors down from the sky.
Being a Wizard was a relatively