Chun instantly realized... Could it be that the magic book curriculum is deliberate? The legendary "anti-self-learning mechanism"? Otherwise, why would anyone need the high-end Magic Academy in Gem City, when they could just self-study a few textbooks like Sherry? How would they charge high tuition fees then?
It's just like discovering the watered-down Master previously, it's a technique castration, meant to prevent ordinary people from easily acquiring high-end technology!
Chun even started to question the difference between runes and magic. Previously, it seemed like those runes were mastered by goblins, gnolls, minotaurs, and fishmen, but not humans, supposedly because "humans are disconnected from nature", but now it appears much more complicated. Is it possible that magic is designed to obscure runes, making people deliberately unable to learn them?
