The idea of placing mana-engineered bombs inside those delicate glass cases refused to leave Ashok's mind, clinging to it like a stubborn shadow.
But of course, that was only Ashok's twisted sense of humor at play. The truth was, Mana Engineering itself was still a very young art—barely sixty or seventy years old.
Compared to it, the great crafts of Alchemy and Blacksmithing were ancient pillars of civilization, stretching back to the time of the Ancients.
Those two had millennia of tradition, heritage, and proof of usefulness backing them up. Mana Engineering, in contrast, was nothing more than a newcomer—a concept birthed not by dwarven instinct or inherited craft, but by sheer human curiosity and stubbornness.
And because of that, it still struggled to find its place in the world.
People found it hard to accept a new practice when society was already built on the foundation of alchemy's potions and blacksmithing's weapons.
