Ancient Magic

**"Ancient Magic of the Age of Gods"** (神（しん）代（だい）魔法（まほう）, *Shindai Mahō*?) is a group of seven powerful magical skills that worked as the origin and basis for all existing magical concepts in Tortus. Each and every existing form of magic used in Tortus is in some form a degraded version of these Ancient Magics. Each one of the seven magic’s govern over one core concept aspect of existence. Each of them could be granted to anyone that managed to conquer any of the seven Great Labyrinths of Tortus that were created by the seven members of the Liberators who were the original possessors of them.

## Origin

Ancient magic was originally from a different world than Tortus, which got destroyed because of its civilization's over-reliance of it. The knowledge of this magic was brought to Tortus by the survivors of that other world, including the self-styled god Ehit. Prior to the Liberators' revolt against Ehit, each form of ancient magic had always been in possession of one of seven individuals throughout the ages.

## Types of Ancient Magic

### Creation Magic

**Creation Magic** (生（せい）成（せい）魔法（まほう）, *Seisei Mahō*?) grants the user control over any object, structure (be it physical or magical) or mineral, allowing the user to shape or transform them in anyway they wish. It is the only form of Magic which allows for the creation of an "Artifact". The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with any inorganic material'.

* **Users**: Ehit, Apostle Template, Darrion Kaus, Alva, Oscar Orcus, Dienleed Galdea Vesperitio Avatarl, Hajime Nagumo and Yue.

### Gravity Magic

**Gravity Magic** (重（じゅう）力（じゅう）魔法（まほう）, *Jūryoku Mahō*?) gives the user control over gravity. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the energy of a star', and not just gravity. Theoretically, it could also interfere with things like earth veins or terrestrial heat, bedrock or magma; and it isn’t impossible to use this magic to purposefully generate an earthquake or volcanic eruption.

* **Users**: Ehit, Apostle Template, Darrion Kaus, Alva, Miledi Reisen, Hajime Nagumo, Yue, Shea Haulia, Kousuke Endou and Tio Klarus.

### Spatial Magic

**Spatial Magic** (空（くう）間（かん）魔法（まほう）, *Kūkan Mahō*?) allows the user to manipulate the space around themselves, allowing them to either bend or expand the space near them or move themselves to another space or location. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the boundary'. Meaning it can allow the user to manipulate anything, like elimination of race-creature gap, or formulating a new boundary to create the spirit world; its possible to achieve those kinds of things.

* **Users**: Ehit, Apostle Template, Darrion Kaus, Alva, Naiz Gruen Caliente, Freid Bagwa, Hajime Nagumo, Yue and Shea Haulia.

### Restoration Magic

**Restoration Magic** (再（さい）生（せい）魔法（まほう）, *Saisei Mahō*?) allows the user to restore the state of anything to either its previous or original condition. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with time', meaning it has the ability to manipulate the time of anything, anyplace or anyone to a point the user desires to.

* **Users**: Ehit, Apostle Template, Darrion Kaus, Alva, Meiru Melusine, Hajime Nagumo, Yue, Shea Haulia, Tio Klarus, Kaori Shirasaki and Kouki Amanogawa.

### Spirit Magic

**Spirit Magic** (魂（こん）魄（はく）魔法（まほう）, *Konpaku Mahō*?) allows the user to manipulate the soul of a living being directly. It's possible to revive a living being back from the dead (time restriction applicable), or transfer the soul of a living being from one body to another, or even into a non-physical body as well, practically granting a living being immortality. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the negative material possessed by living things'. To be more specific, this magic could also interfere with things like energy inside the body such as mana, heat, electricity, then thought, consciousness, and memory. Those who have mastery over this magic, can even create an artificial consciousness, and allow it to inhabit any body they wish.

* **Users**: Ehit, Apostle Template, Darrion Kaus, Alva, Laus Barn, Hajime Nagumo, Yue, Shea Haulia, Tio Klarus, Kaori Shirasaki and Aiko Hatayama.

### Evolution Magic

**Evolution Magic** (昇（しょう）華（か）魔法（まほう）, *Shōka Mahō*?) allows the user to enhance or evolve all other forms of power, be it strong or weak. It can even work on other "Ancient Magic" as well, boosting their power and scope. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the information of existing things'. This magic enhances or evolves an ability or power by a stage of 1, by interfering with the targets information, and then increasing it‘s stage one-by-one.

* **Users**: Ehit, Apostle Template, Darrion Kaus, Alva, Lyutillis Haltina, Hajime Nagumo, Yue, Shea Haulia, Tio Klarus, Kaori Shirasaki and Shizuku Yaegashi.

### Metamorphosis Magic

**Metamorphosis Magic** (変（へん）成（せい）魔法（まほう）, *Hensei Mahō*?) allows the user to remake the form of a normal being and reform them into a different form. Normally its used to remake a normal organism and turn it into a monster, or even manipulate the magic stone of a monster and remake them. But the true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with any organic material'. Meaning not only animals, it's also possible to remake plants or intelligent beings, and reform their structure as needed. Even byproducts of organic material, like paper or food can also be manipulated by this magic. The magic stone which gets created during the process is just a byproduct of the process.

* **Users**: Ehit, Apostle Template, Darrion Kaus, Alva, Vandre Schnee, Dienleed Galdea Vesperitio Avatarl, Freid Bagwa, Hajime Nagumo, Yue, Shea Haulia, Tio Klarus, Kaori Shirasaki, Shizuku Yaegashi, Suzu Taniguchi and Ryutarou Sakagami.

## Concept Magic

**Concept Magic** (概（がい）念（ねん）魔法（まほう）, *Gainen Mahō*?) is a form of magic which is a combination of all seven ancient magics. The main ability of concept magic is that it allows one to interfere with the laws of the world and impress concepts upon it. By raising up a powerful wish or desire with Spirit Magic and Evolution Magic, it can be raised to a level of a concept before being forcefully materialized with magical power. However, since the user's desire at the time of use, is used as the base of the magic, to raise up and create the concept, the spell may not remain stable in subsequent uses, thus a single spell can only be used once under most circumstances. However if the desire is still needed, it can be used more than once, like in the case of Hajime's crystal key which had the concept of "I want to return home" in it, was destroyed by Ehit, he was still able to recreate the crystal key again because his desire of wanting to return home was still there. It should be noted however that concept magic requires the user to concentrate on raising up their wish in order to materialize the concept. Also, some concepts aren't possible to materialize by the user on their own, for example, Hajime could only make degraded versions of the crystal key without Yue; or, should the emotions invoked was extreme enough, Hajime could realised something such as the "Deny All Existence", a Concept Magic came to be as the result of extreme grief and lost when Ehit took Yue's body - manifested physically as chains coated with his red aura - it is so vicious that even top-tier beings such as Apostles or god can be one-shot kill with ridiculous ease, for it rendered its target simply cease to exist upon contact.

For as powerful as Concept Magic can be, its equally demanding when comes to mana consumption - the Crystal Key requires Hajime and Yue to work together, and Deny All Existence drained Hajime's mana so hard that he briefly died - barely brought back via spirit magic - after disengaged the magic.

## Affinity

Each person's ability to wield one or more Ancient Magics depends on their affinity. Some may work better than others for certain Jobs because of their nature. For example, a Synergist can make best use of creation magic because their skills revolve around craftsmanship.

Those with high magical affinities are especially skilled with most forms of ancient magic and can make higher use of them. On the other hand, those with low magical affinitieswill only be able to use them in a limited capacity. For example, Yue, who's skilled in almost all forms of magic, can make high use of almost every type of ancient magic except creation magic, as she cannot use *Transmute*. The second example is Shea, whose magic skill is extremely low, can only apply it to herself. The only exemption appears to be evolution magic, as it focuses on enhancing and power ups, therefore anyone can use it to varying degrees, regardless of their affinity to it.

The closer an Ancient Magic spell is aligned to the fundamental nature of that magic, the more difficult it is to wield it to the point where most regular people couldn't use it, regardless of their affinity.

## Trivia

* In Ehit's homeworld, ancient magic is referred to as "*Universal Laws*."
* Those who were born with one form of ancient magic were incapable of learning the others due to their souls being imprinted with the power to interfere with one of the fundamental laws of nature as birth, thus making it so they couldn’t be modified any further.
* Sharm Barn was also in possession of one form of Ancient Magic, due to having cleared one of the Great Labyrinths, but it is unknown which one he possessed. It is most likely either spatial magic or metamorphosis magic, due to needing to complete other Labyrinths before entering Laus, Meiru and Lyutillis' Labyrinths, Oscar's being the most difficult one to complete, and Hajime's party were the first ones to have completed Miledi's.
* Hajime has managed to recreate the magic circle the that can bestow people with Ancient Magic.

## References

1. ↑ Light Novel (*Zero*) Volume 04
2. ↑ Light Novel Volume 11
3. ↑ Light Novel (*Zero*) Volume 01
4. ↑ Web Novel Chapter 468