Like any normal human being, it is hard to cast magic because magic it is mainly dependent on mana, Magic casting is often difficult due to the need of mental concetration, precice accuracy around mana and especially intense emotional intent to the body. It requires mastering complex algorithms that every magic was imbued with that specific kind of spell, It often requires deep concetration or specific strong emotions that may activate the skill such as joy or traumatic experiences, Apart for that, it is the hardest skill that was in the human body, as it is requires a lot of experience and mana to safely use this spell magic.
The stored magic that was inside the human body typically serves as a battery or a power source that was embedded inside your body, apart from your bloodstream, nervous system, bones and vital organs, Magic was partially stored in the human mind, concieing the true nature of mana, Aside from that, Magic acts as a high stakes reward, a limited tool that risks life long injuries such as mutating and destroying the host. Overusing magic may lead to prolonged organ failure, due to the body cannot handle such immense power, from which may lead to severe injuries or death. And since the leaderboard system doesn't require any more casualities, the made the magic spells safe and only requires little to no energy, Instead of dying by overessxecive magic, a red box appears on the persons vision, It tells the host of preventing using overusing magic, like a warning notification to provide others for safety, Instead of instant death, overusing and ignoring the warning that the system provides, the user will lose consciousness and began at the healing state. Thus gaining a disadvantage at the battlefield and hence made the host vulnerable, So it is required to follow the system rules in order to safely protect the host.
Rarely, if your mana is severely low ,the system will warn you to gain more mana by using buffs as an alternative choice, such as by using the blue potion, from which will gain more mana and enhancing the magic power it provides, If not, a user is unable to cast spells or perform special abilities, oftern leading to vulnerability, physical and mental exhaustion to the body and in rare cases, it may lead to prolonged sickness that may lead to death. So it is best to manage your mana by using specific buffs or trained to be usage dependent at mana, Or in other simpler tips, expand your ability points so that more mana will visually stored into ypur body, Thus using magic spells with no struggle
The good thing about magic spells is that if you mastered that type of magic by completing the skill tree, the user will change its appearance, it will change body appearances such as hair color, dilated pupils, and smooth or thick skin, also it can change apperances similar of mutation around the body, Mutations grants buffs that may enhance magic spells, For example, mastering fire magic will grant you fire resistant along changing a set of apperances along permanent elemental transformations such as parts of skin turning red or facial hair will turn red due to the element represents fire magic.
The person that only relies entirely based on magic is called enchanter, Enchanters specifically functions as specialized wielders of magical power, typically serving as the main damage dealers or entirely base on supporting allies or teammates, They are the main utility providers in the battlefield, as they hold concentrated energy to grant specific magic spells based on their elemental magic, they are specialized, often weiders of supernatural power, manipulating mana and stored energy to cast magic spells, they are frequenly relying on visualization and support for the battlefield, They specifically magic weiders, as they only mastered deep concetration, and ambiend mind to fulfill each spell cast, they are not specialized in combat training and heavily reliant of magic spells and mana consumption, Their source of power is to use elemental magic that was scattered at their environment and are mainly used for their own internal reserves such as water magic from which is reliant on bodies of water like oceans and lakes or earth magic, from which is heavily reliant on map awareness, terrain formation and more
There is one type of magic user that both relies on swordsmanship and magic power, They are usually called war chanter, In a easier definition, a war chanter is a person who uses magic while wielding weapons, It is a stronger form of mages, usually holds immense strength wile using combat-based skills, It is typically a warrior that uses magic to enhance their physical attacks or cast elemental spells between weapon swings. Unlike enchanters, war chanter provides less mana consumption, due to its magic spell only reliant to weapons skills. War chanter has the ability to change their weapon form or increase in power based on the type or amount of magic infused to it. War chanter is essential to fill the roles of a offender and a defender, it blends martial combat proficiency with magical abilities that gain a advantage in the battlefield. Most War chanter uses magic to increase their own combat effectiveness, using elemental spells to gain a higher damage output, such as a ordinary sword was embedded with a fire element, thus making it stronger and deals a increased damage.
And as such, buying skills, buffs and magic spells from the merchant store are required to spend ability points, When you bought it, your knowledge from that specific skill will be instantly recognized and thus mastering the skill that was bought from the merchant store. Meanwhile, buffs are different from skills, instead, buffs costs around the same price, about 2500 ability points, but each buffs serves as a different purpose that may gain an advantage in the battlefield, such as strengthening attacks and increase damage and regenerative healing. On the other hand, Magic is bought by using ability points that differ the diverse price, Like skills, when you bought the elemental magic, the magic will immediately stored into your body, all the knowledge from that elemental magic will be memorized and learned with a specific time after you bought the elemental magic. Once you obtained that specific elemental magic, there were sets of remaining skills that were related to that specific element, there were usually called as skill tree,
Also the system provides the merchant store a sell mechanic, usually a sell mechanic can sell items from the merchant store, It can sell any items that was belong to the merchant store, such as skills and magics. Selling items are a must when you want to remove any kind of skill and magic that was stored in your mind. Thus erasing the memories that was stored on that specific skill and Hence instantly forgetting it and unable to use it again. Selling items grant ability points based on the price of that specific items. But there is a catch, selling items will grant less ability points compared to the current price of that specific items. Because the system does not require any set of refunds it provides, so selling items give less ability points than buying it.
Also, the body of the host is fully developed by the system, so the leaderboard system provides a black ring tattoo that was placed into the persons right arm, the black ring tattoo parentally resembles a button that the person was required to press it in order to show the leaderboard system, Any circumstances of removing the black ring in the right arm (Cutting your right arm or person that was raised with no limbs is involved) will relocate the ring tattoo and immediately placed in the person chest. So that it is easily remembered and easily fixed the problem.
Upon further explaining the rules that was located in the leaderboard system, Nato understood about the true purpose of the system that Octavia lend to us, it is not a gift, but a curse that thrives for consuming the nature of strength, power, and unleashing the real purpose of survival. It is a game that the world wants us to entertain, it is a test that serves as the new state of the new world.