I Am The Heroine's Father: The Cannon Fodder's Ascent

Olivia walked closer to Johan, her eyes curious, "What’s that?" She had never heard of something like using God’s energy to cast a spell.

Orihime, finally noticing an opportunity to change the topic from the previous conversation of Sebastian, and Johan, chimed in, "There are many different kinds of spells. Some say you can’t even put them in numbers, but what’s most known to us humans, and other mammals are just four..."

Olivia turned to Orihime, her eyes widening at the infinite possibilities of spells.

Orihime smiled, "Verdant Weave, Celestial Edict, Whisper Pact, Aetherflow—these are the four basic types. Simpler names for them are nature magic, divine magic, spirit magic, and finally the most commonly used and simply categorized as Aether or mana, referring to our body’s natural mana and Aether reserves," she explained calmly.

Their names were enough of an explanation for Olivia. She instantly understood—Verdant Weave (nature magic) used natural Aether present in nature, dimensions, or even elements, like using a river’s water to cast a [Hurricane] spell.

Celestial Edict (divine magic), from the way Johan described it, seemed to borrow its energy from the Gods of different legends, which also made her wonder if those legends were all true.

Whisper Pact (spirit magic) was something she was using right at this moment. Her soul was connected with the God Tree, which led to her body being in a constant state of a weird kind of spirit magic.

So the definition was clear to her—a magic that lets you make contracts with different kinds of monsters, spirits, or even Gods, and then, using your body to output the contracted being’s powers. It also posed heavy negative effects to the body if there was no agreement between the parties. Most common: corruption.

These three could only be used with specific chants or rituals that one had to learn through reading ancient books on magic, Aether, etc. There were myths of some mantle being able to use spirit magic chantlessly, so maybe it was possible, but the easier way was to just use chants.