A true expert did not need a grand spiritual item or a limited holy ground.
In fact, they would be so much easier to deal with if they did.
Then you could stop their secret arts by stealing their tool or throwing them off of that land.
If that was all it took, then Aleister, the one who had singlehandedly conquered the Battle of Blythe Road, would have used whatever trickery necessary to remove or neutralize his opponent’s weapon or advantage and won without so much as a word.
However, these two experts had no such weaknesses.
They used simple breaths.
They used mere fingertips.
They used no more than gestures.
When they took the fundamentals to this extreme, a magician could produce miracles powerful enough to bisect the entire world with nothing more than their own body.
For one thing, Kabbalah said the small human body and the large world corresponded to each other.
In that sense, relying on external tools to complete one’s spells could be seen as the heretical option.
Aleister understood that.
Intellectually, anyway.
But that argument was like saying understanding the logic behind the Big Bang allowed someone to produce a Big Bang.
- GT9