However, if you only use techniques... it's meaningless without magic.

"Thank you for reminding me."

As Ira said this, he didn't show any disappointment, but he wasn't going to stay in the attic any longer... He still had to climb the endless stairs downstairs.

It will take another whole day.

Watching Ira's departing figure, the old man slowly took a sip of tea and said, "You know what? Ira... I'm very confused about the future of a mage."

Upon hearing this, Ira stopped in his tracks and turned his head away, unsure of what it meant.

“Some things have quietly changed. The efforts of mages have become meaningless, bloodlines have become less important, and strength has begun to seem less pure... After you graduated, some things have already changed.”

As he said this, the old man sipped his tea and sighed, “Go to the Crimson Tower and find a professor named Tops… or an associate professor? He invented something useless, so he was ostracized by the Crimson Tower and is probably having a terrible time now.”

"..."

"What is it?"

Ira paused for a moment, a suspicion forming in his mind, but he still asked the old man, and then, almost simultaneously, he and Gandalf (?) uttered similar words: "Could it be..."

Ira: "It's not necessary to memorize the original text..."

Old man: "All you need to do is inject mana, and that will be enough..."

"..."

"!!!"

The world is about to change.