Instead of answering, the voivode handed him a flask. The blood in it explained a lot. A mage had fallen into the hands of the vampires, one of those who had helped Elos create the artifact and, more importantly, who had helped the rebel in his research. Because he too was a mage of the school of light, like the current master of Zalon.
- What have you done with the mage? - Alexander was first interested in the fate of such a valuable prisoner.
- Three gendarmes are currently carrying his sleeping carcass to our village.
- Good decision. What about his knowledge? Have you checked?
- No. Let Maria handle that.
Turns out the research Elos has been doing in Zalon over the last few years has yielded some very interesting results. In fact, the archmage has unknowingly opened up a new school of magic. Divine magic. Studies of light and its nature, led to the discovery of something previously unknown to magicians - in the rays of demur there are some particles inherent only in the light. Neither magically created light, nor simple fire, have them.
Moreover, they are not present in the night light of mur either. But there are other particles in the light of mur, in some ways similar to those found earlier in the light of demur. But as similar as the particles were, they were different. The night and day lights had particles that were previously unknown and even ancient books on magic did not describe anything similar.
Archimagus Elos did not immediately realize what exactly he had stumbled upon. But he immediately tried to find out how it could be used. It quickly became clear that the particles discovered had a very weak personal potential. Any obstacle would dissolve them completely.
Without a trace! Reinforcing the particles with magic also leads only to their complete disappearance and the formation of significant residual magical disturbances.
But if they strengthen the spell, you get a completely unimaginable effect. Magic is amplified tenfold! The resulting power is simply prohibitive. The only thing that could not be realized in the form of ordinary magic spells, only through artifacts and only made of lunar silver. But that was a small price to pay for such power.
After playing with what could be obtained using the discovered particles, Elos decided to find out what they were and where they came from. And he thought of nothing better than to see how they interacted with each other. He chose a day when both the local sun and the local moon would be in the sky at the same time.
Having dispersed the clouds and rain with the help of magic, the archmage launched an artifact that was supposed to push the particles against each other. And miraculously survived the powerful magical explosion. Despite their similarity and in some places almost complete identity, the particles turned out to be completely antagonistic to each other. It was this complete opposite of such similar forces that suggested to the recovering magician that perhaps he had looked beyond the threshold of existence and was dealing with divine matter.
A series of experiments had strengthened him in this opinion - Elos had little doubt that he was dealing with a manifestation of divine power. The only thing that kept him from making a final decision was the complete dissimilarity between what he was observing and what was described in the old books as divine.
The archmage hounded his lab technicians and assistants, spent twenty-four hours a day in the library, but never reached a consensus. Then intrigues for power in Zalon began, and the archmage abandoned his theoretical research, using only the practical side of it - to create artifacts of unprecedented power.
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