Gar took the newspaper and looked it over.
The bounty on it was issued by the Heartfilia Family, and it had been six days.
The surge of spatial-temporal power, on the other hand, was seven days ago.
Gar's brow furrowed slightly, magic power depletion syndrome.
Cana watched Gar frown from the side and asked,
"What's wrong?"
"Is this illness difficult to cure?"
Gar nodded and said,
"Indeed, it's difficult to cure."
"Because it's a terminal illness, the longest a patient with this illness has lived is no more than half a year."
"That was still because the patient was a prince of a Kingdom."
"But unfortunately."
"Even relying on the power of a Kingdom to prolong his life was ultimately useless."
"In the end, that Kingdom also exhausted its wealth treating the prince, causing widespread public discontent, and was destroyed by an enemy country."
Cana's face showed surprise:
"Ah?"
"How could that be?"
Gar said,
"magic power depletion syndrome requires a large amount of Magic Power to be replenished into the patient's body to maintain vitality."
"And this consumption is massive, non-stop, twenty-four hours a day."
"Even with the wealth of a Kingdom, it only lasted for half a year before being completely depleted, and could no longer be maintained."
Cana's eyes widened:
"Then there's no hope."
Gar frowned and thought for a moment, then said,
"Theoretically, that's the case."
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Under the clear blue sky.
Dragonite pulled the cable car cabin, soaring through the sky at an altitude of over a thousand meters.
White clouds drifted past the windows, and the scenery below was fully visible: mountains, lakes, the sea...
Lisanna, Elfman, and Cana all stared intently at the scenery below, letting out exclamations, and the direction Dragonite was heading was the Heartfilia Family's base.
After admiring the scenery for a while, the three little ones all sat back in their seats and looked at Gar.
Gar put down the Magician's notebook in his hand, looked at the three of them, and said,
"Next, I'll tell you what magic power depletion syndrome is."
"Between heaven and earth, Magic Power factors exist."
"Magicians increase their Magic Power by absorbing Magic Power factors or through Calm Mind, thereby gradually becoming stronger."
"So, here's the question."
"Where is this Magic Power stored in the body?"
Gar's words left the three little ones a bit confused, and Cana said,
"Of course it's..."
Suddenly, she was speechless.
It seemed no one had ever explained this.
Cana frowned and asked,
"Hmm... where in the body?"
Gar raised his hand, and a fist-sized, orange-yellow spherical cell phantom appeared in his palm.
This was a cell magnified countless times, filled with something resembling flowing water, bubbling. Gar explained,
"The human body is composed of many things, and cells are one of them."
"They are also an important component for storing Magic Power."
"What you see now is a cell in a normal state, it's full of Magic Power."
Gar pointed to the bubbling water-like substance within, indicating that this was hypothetically the Magic Power.
"Everyone has tens of trillions of cells in their body."
Then, the orange-yellow cell phantom in Gar's palm began to enlarge, becoming more solid, and storing more of the flowing water (Magic Power), looking stronger.
"And as your physical fitness gradually strengthens, your Magic Power gradually strengthens."
"Cells will also become stronger and more vibrant accordingly, thus being able to store more Magic Power."
Then, the flowing water in the orange-yellow cell phantom in Gar's palm began to continuously drain away, quickly disappearing, but then slowly filled back up, until it completely filled the entire cell.
"This is the process of Magic Power consumption and recovery."
"When you use Magic, you will mobilize Magic Power from your entire body. The Magic Power stored in these cells gradually decreases, until it's completely gone, which is when your Magic Power is exhausted."
"Then you can recover Magic Power by supplementing with potions, or through Calm Mind, absorbing various Magician materials."
"Until the cells in your body are filled with Magic Power again."
"But the human body has limits."
"There's only so much total Magic Power, and when encountering a strong enemy, or something that cannot be stopped."
"When the Magic Power in the body is completely depleted, and you still can't stop, what happens then?"
Cana raised her hand and said,
"It will consume life force!"
Gar nodded and said,
"That's right."
"It will consume life force."
"And the main cause of magic power depletion syndrome is that after consuming a large amount of Magic Power, you can't stop, and you start consuming life force."
The flowing water (Magic Power) inside the cell phantom in Gar's hand quickly decreased again, until it was completely consumed.
Then, light green flowing water began to quickly fill the cell, but it was quickly consumed again, and then the light green flowing water continued to fill rapidly.
After repeating this cycle several times.
In the surprised eyes of Lisanna, Elfman, and Cana, the originally strong and vibrant cell in Gar's palm had become loose and dilapidated.
There were even several large holes around the cell.
However, even so, this cell phantom was still constantly moving, accelerating its absorption of Magic Power, and the green flowing water inside slowly rose, only to flow out from the broken holes.
Gar's voice sounded:
"When life force is continuously consumed, and Magic Power is constantly replenished, the cells in the body, after continuous high-intensity absorption and depletion of Magic Power, will become damaged and dilapidated."
"Even if the forbidden spell or whatever was used has stopped."
"But the cells in the body, under that intensity of continuous extraction, have been damaged, and instinctively continue to absorb Magic Power, but the damaged cells cause Magic Power to constantly leak out."
Then the cell in Gar's hand quickly shrank, and then the body parts of the phantom began to appear.
A small phantom figure emitting red light appeared in Gar's palm:
"Cells are distributed throughout the body, so when all the cells in the body are damaged, the Magician's body will pathologically absorb Magic Power like this."
"However, the damaged cells continuously leak Magic Power."
"The body craves Magic Power and constantly absorbs it, yet it uncontrollably leaks it out."
"Then this Magician will be like a transfer station, with Magic Power constantly entering and leaving, and all the cells in the body will be working non-stop, twenty-four hours a day."
"And the result of this is..."
The loose and dilapidated cell phantom appeared in Gar's hand again, and the holes on this cell phantom continuously expanded, until it could no longer retain Magic Power:
"The cells are getting more and more severely damaged, and the holes on the cells are getting bigger and bigger."
"Until the cells, under this intensity of work, continue for a day, a week, half a month, a month, and completely destroy and wear out all the cells in the body."
"Then this Magician will also meet their moment of death."
"This process is extremely painful."
"Because the cells work instinctively, non-stop, twenty-four hours a day, the patient suffers extremely painful torment every moment. Those with weaker willpower can't help but commit suicide."
"And even those with strong willpower, like the prince of that country, could only last for half a year."
"But this consumption is massive."
"Even with the financial resources of a country to support him."
"It's unsustainable."
"In half a year, the entire country's accumulated wealth was exhausted, and they could no longer continue to prolong his life."
"And this is also why magic power depletion syndrome is called a terminal illness."
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