“Anfang.” It is absorbed by my body, which has become a circuit, and transformed into a different form of magical energy. The body of a magus is nothing more than a circuit. A circuit to connect the spiritual and the real. We call the result of this, the many mystic occurrences it has made real, legitimate magic. …My body is burning hot. An illusion of myself growing horns. An illusion of wings growing out of my back. An illusion of scales forming on my hands. A sensation of being in water.…I start to sweat. Swords are driven into my body. One after the other, countless in number. This is the pain caused by my human body rejecting itself as the Magic Circuit. No matter how great a magus you are, a human is human. This pain will result as long a person uses magic with a human body. But I dared not to loosen my circulation. At the end of this pain, on the verge of elimination, lies the place of“connection”…A pain running through my left arm. The Magic Crest starts up on its own to help me, and as a result, violates my nerves even more. The harvested mana in my blood. If that is burning iron, then the Magic Crest itself is like a nerve made of thorns. It runs through my body like a centipede with fangs. I lose myself within that pain. And at the same time, I feel that I have reached my goal. My overly sensitive hearing keeps recognizing the sound of the clock in the living room. Ten more seconds until two in the morning. The power within me is perfect. Let’s start this lengthy process. I shall take you on a step-by-step process on the proper way to summon a servant. I take the mana I’ve absorbed and turn it into “fi xed” magical energy. And now… I have only to empty out the mana within me to move the engine called the summoning circle… My vision closes. The fi fth element, said to be unconceivable by human eyes, is lying there before me. As a natural response, in fear of the body being broken by it, my vision shuts itself down, along with my other functions. Breathing is slowed, heart palpitations lowering in level... I can physically feel the stored mana in my body leaving me as I think the summoning chant. Finally, I draw up one last breath and start the chant. 1. 10.
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