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HammerStrikes219
HammerStrikes219
I would prefer if you also cite these sources too as it does make it harder to find these quotes you find including the scans.

However, I appreciate the effort you making.
TheUnshakableOne
TheUnshakableOne
I can once I'm on laptop. Might he Tomorrow

Pretty sure their all from case files
TheUnshakableOne
TheUnshakableOne
The manga image is volume 2 of Ell melloi case files. It's also in the light novel here

" For modern magi, most understood that reaching the root was something that just wasn't possible for them. After all, even though magecraft itself had been in a state of continuing decline since the Age of Gods, there were no reports of anyone facing that past and trying to return to it. Likely, the appearance in the Far East of the fifth - and often called the last - Magician was the same as the gate to the Root being all but closed

to everyone else."
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Among the imperfect languages allowed to man, one had to admit there was nothing that could contain what they saw. It was said there was once a Sealing Designated magus who used the Unified Language (Master of Babel), words which allowed no mistake, to which the entire world-living or not could not but obey. Her much the same, a purity that reached into the depths of the Root itself.
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Volume 3 of case files

"I don't think so. This combination is needlessly complicated for that. Theoretically, the Root could be reached using Emiya's magecraft alone. That's why it was Seal Designated. It would be meaningless to add Iskandar or any other formula into the equation..."
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Volume 9

Magecraft today is different from magecraft in the Age of the Gods. That I can understand, at least somewhat. Because mages from the Age of the Gods are very close to the Root, they don't need to chase after it. I'm not sure why, but I can understand that as well. But what does all of this have to do with Heartless?"
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Also volume 9

"Good....First, the mages of the Age of the Gods do not aim for the Root because they don't have to. This is because the Root is quite close to them."

I had heard this explanation many times before. Modern mages chased after the Root, but ancient mages did not.

"Faker is an example."

By now, we were already familiar with her. She was a Servant who had been summoned from many millennia ago.

"The magecraft we know of is no more than the manipulation of formulas(TN: Alternatively, spells). It is only a trick to briefly fool the world. Their magecraft, on the other hand, directly connected with the Root and Divine Spirits- no, the gods themselves." My mentor said, confirming the difference between mages in modern times and in the Age of the Gods, which had only been hinted at until now.
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Also Volume 9

Those last 2 is backed by WoG which that interview statement link appears to be broken...

"The revival of the Age of the Gods would be like a miracle to generations of mages. Reaching the Root would no longer be an unattainable dream. This new form of mystery would be far more efficient."
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Volume 10

Modern magecraft began when the Age of the Gods ended. The goal of magecraft

became attempting to return to the past. Over two thousand years, mages had spent enough talent and resources to make someone pass out from astonishment, all so they could reach the Root, the shining ideal in the distance.

A mage from the Age of the Gods must find this act incredibly foolish. Reines had told me that not even a monster like Touko Aozaki stood a chance against Faker.
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Volume 10

"Interesting." McDonell said, nodding twice and clasping together his hands. "A god that exists only for mages... if he succeeds in creating it, we will not have to seek the Root anymore. Isn't that a wonderful proposition?"

I had expected an answer like that from the head of the Democratic Faction..

If their goal was to have more mages climb to higher rungs of the ladder, the magecraft of the Age of the Gods was definitely a shortcut. Since he was a guide for other mages, ita was no wonder that he affirmed Heartless' plan..

"...No."

Came a voice accompanied by a strong will of refusal.

"...This is no time to joke around," said the old man clearly. "Are you suggesting that we abandon two thousand vears of history...and bring back the Age of the Gods...? Perhaps people would do that in some obscure place...like the Far East...but not here, in the Clock Tower...We cannot allow that to happen...!"
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Volume 10

Her perception expanded as she stabilized as a Divine Spirit. Now, connected to the Root, time no longer mattered. She was now able to search for a point in the past while remaining in the present; not because she could see the past, but because she could see everything in the instant that her divine Saint Graph was compressed back into the form of a Ghost Liner.

There were limits to her power, of course. The bounds of her vision were limited by her scale as a Divine Spirit, and Faker was only a newborn god. She could only calculate points that she had a connection to.
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Also volume 10

All Lord El melloi Case files novel
HammerStrikes219
HammerStrikes219
I see. Thanks. Well at least, Deagonx got more evidence to work with
TheUnshakableOne
TheUnshakableOne
El-Melloii Adventures 3 ch.3

"I already mentioned something to that effect in Singapore, but magecraft original to the Orient is different from the Occident's. That's because some concepts have different bases. Let me see if I have a good name for this concept. How about Sharing?"

"What's Sharing?"

"Think of the Philosophy Magecraft spread all over continental Asia. What makes it valid are the Philosophy Foundation, which is an effective simulation of an artificial Root."

"An artificial... Root?"

She lost me completely.

But those words alone were enough to make a shiver run down my spine.

"I know that the Root is the ultimate goal of every mage. I can't imagine it as something people have a way to make."

"Of course we can't. But by 'we', I mean modern Western mages."

I felt my definition of common sense being suddenly flipped upside-down.

I mean, I've heard the circumstances hundreds of times in the Clock Tower. All mages pursue the Root. The Root is the very truth of all, and whoever reaches it would learn the laws and reasons of everything, etc.

I've seen so many mages sacrificing their fortunes, lives, and families just to get one step closer to the Root.

A thought that took me years to digest was flipped on its head.

"I'm sure you heard in the Clock Tower about how pretty much everyone played by their own different rules in the Age of Gods, right? Did you know that Age of Gods mages weren't after the Root?"

I remember hearing that.

That was because the gods were a regular part of reality in the Age of Gods.

"If I recall correctly, it was because in the Age of Gods, making a contract with a god closer to the Root connected the mage directly to the Root."

"That's right", Rin nodded.

She reminded me of the Professor with her approach of taking things step-by-step, always checking how much the learning party knew before moving to the next layer. Although both of them would get angry if I said it out loud.
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