"With my help, the privilege of the Mages has been successfully weakened."
"Is that so," Zog said.
'He understood what Old El meant. As long as someone could handle seven kilograms, with a bit of practice, they could launch a pretty effective Magic Array from a great distance. Plus, unlike Magic Items, they weren't in short supply.'
"The power of this gun can reach the level of a Level Four Shaping Mage. To continuously cast spells of this power, you'd probably need to be a Level Five Mage. And Level Five... that's the lifetime ceiling for most Mages," Old El said.
"But the knowledge a Level Five Mage possesses isn't something you can get just by pulling a trigger. The future will definitely be a world that values knowledge, not one that values brute force," Zog said.
"Oh, is that so?"
Old El laughed and said, "Even if one day, an Ordinary person could pull a trigger and fire a bullet that could harm even you, would you still like that world that values knowledge?"
