Runemaster in the Last Days novel Chapter 90

Amelia looked at Riya helplessly. "This is their methods of distinguishing whether a person can have mana or not. Because this is the simplest magic and as long as you have mana in your body, you can trigger it.

And for those who are suitable to cultivate mana, they will learn the meditation technique and then be introduced to various types of magic. I didn’t join, so I’m not very clear but my brother said that most of them are elemental type of magic."

Riya nodded.

When she was forming runes, it was also based on the basis of elemental magic most of the time. After all, they were the most convenient and the elemental magic was to borrow the power of nature around them, which was easier to gather.

"To be honest, brother said that the elemental magic is using more than one element because as you know about our periodic table, fire is not exactly an element and wind had many different components mixed together," Amelia continued her explanation.

Riya listened and nodded.

In that world, there was no advance chemistry and so on. But in this world, physics and chemistry had developed vigorously. Riya was naturally also familiar with the periodic table.

After all, which science student didn’t have to suffer from memorizing all of them back then?

And they even have to memorize the location…

Riya quickly tossed the memory away. She didn’t want to be reminded of the scene when she was struggling to remember and fill the blanks in the chemistry exams anymore.

"But the magic is simplifying the elements to several of them," Amelia replied. "And the spells are the medium to use the mana. It’s actually a bit amazing how ordinary sentences can actually trigger such a phenomenon."

Riya shook her head. "It’s normally not so easy but the mana concentration in our world had increased."

If it was during the time when Riya first came here, she had to say that the possibility of cultivating mana without coming into contact with the meditation technique first was very slim. Even with a good meditation technique, they might not be able to become a magician.

That was how bad it was before.

After the mist incident, the mana concentration increased and after that, the chance for them to use mana even without meditation increased slightly.

Just slightly.

Because only after the earthquake that Riya felt that the mana concentration could rival at most 1% of the mana in that world. Of course, she would always use the Mana Gathering Formation or she would want to vomit blood.

This kind of environment was extremely unfriendly for pure mages.

"So you noticed it too," Amelia muttered.

While she was already half believed that Riya is a magician, this sentence meant that it was conclusive. Because other than magician, they would not realize that the mana concentration in the air had increased multiple times.

Ordinary people would not notice.

But magicians would notice it.

Amelia herself heard about this from Samuel because he kept on telling her to train when the environment had become better.

"Why do you not want me to join the Magic Association?"

"Because their hierarchy is very strict. You can’t even touch the secret magic book until you reach the deepest rank and those people are usually elderly." Amelia pursed her lips. "Those people were already half step to the ground but they are still holding onto the power."

Riya chuckled. "Mana can help you to live longer and it’s not surprising that their hierarchy is very strict."