Chapter 116: Shara's Pact
The Weft was nothing new.
When Aion created the world, all things were suffused with primordial mana, the most fundamental form of magical power.
Harnessing this power was extraordinarily difficult. Even individuals of exceptional talent were easily affected by its chaotic nature. You might intend to light yourself a cigarette, only to end up freezing yourself into a block of ice.
For the vast majority of ordinary people, magic was simply unattainable.
Indeed, for a very long time, magic was the exclusive domain of the gods.
After the first Goddess of Magic came into being, that benevolent deity created the Weft so that mortals could wield magic.
The Weft constrained raw mana, dramatically lowering the threshold for spellcasting. It allowed mortals to use magical power without suffering uncontrollable backlash from chaotic forces.
From that moment on, magical civilization entered a period of explosive growth.
But the goddess had been far too kind. She even entrusted administrative authority over the Weft to ambitious humans.