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There are 5 main rules that magic itself abides to, they are called Rendan Laws in honor to the person that discovered them:

Law #1: Core magic systems are not be affected by oaths.

Law #2: The maximum range for controlled attacks is 5–10 meters. Users cannot go over or under the cap for maximum range while being unarmed. Using weapons that have been imbued with magic, the range is improved above the upper limit.

Law #3: Magic that has not been liberated cannot change states of matter. Physical manifestations of magic that are still being acknowledged by the caster as “being used” not change states, no matter what the circumstances a manifestation is in. Once the manifestation is liberated, the element created will change states or attributes into what it should be at its current state.

Law #4: Users cannot directly use active magic from other users to change their own magic. A fire user cannot use the oxygen created by an air user to create hotter flames.

Law #5: Oaths will not directly affect other magic users in a negative way. Oaths require giving up something that is relative to what is being asked for. The worth of the item being gave up is directly related to how important it is for the user.

Law #5 brings me to my next concept of the power system, oaths. Oaths are made by magic users with higher entities or themselves in order to accomplish a something. In order to create a valid oath, users must give up something that they consider equivalent to their request. To put it in perspective, imagine that two different users ask for a slight increase in speed and offer 2000 magic units from their reserves. One of them has magic reserves of 4,000 units, whilst the other one has 20,000 units in their reserves. The first user is giving up half their current reserves so it is considered valid, whilst the other user's oath is considered not valid since 2,000 units are not of much impact to them.

There are two types of oaths, permanent oaths and one-time oaths. Permanent oaths are most commonly used to compress a sequence of steps in order to create a new spell/skill that takes less effort than manually following said sequence. Single-time oaths are mostly used to accomplish simple tasks with less effort than normal. A magic user can have multiple oaths active at the same time as long as they do not conflict with each other; if two oaths conflict with each other then the user has to cancel one of them. Cancelled oaths do not give refunds.

Magic itself acts as a high density gas that is stored inside the soul of a magic user and is summoned by the cerebellum of the user. The magic that is manifested puts a strain on both the physical and spiritual cerebellum of the user. That means that continuous use of magic can kill somebody. The amount of magic a user can take out of their reserves is defined by their magic input. The magic input are the amount of magic units per second a user is able to take out of their reserves to then pass it through their cerebellum, the input is set to be about ~7 times less than their entire magic reserve. Once magic is taken out of the reserve, it is interpreted by the cerebellum and converted into a physical manifestation; however, there is an amount of magic that is lost after the cerebellum interprets it into physical magic, this is called transmission loss. The transmission loss is calculated with m/5, where m is the magic input. After magic is interpreted and finally converted into a physical manifestation, the output will be the input minus the transmission loss.

Magic can also be efficient or inefficient. The more efficient magic is, the less it will take to cast spells and hence, last longer. Efficiency can be improved with the use of weapons that are classified as Elemental (made up by mostly magic and very few materials that are not mainly created by magic) and Basic (made up of normal materials that mainly conduct magic instead of being magic themselves) in a scale from 1 to 5, 1 being the best. Magic users are classified using a similar system as well.

I am unsure on how generic the system currently sounds, but what I am completely sure about is that the following two characteristics might increase its originality.

Some users souls' are conceived with a Magic Enhancing System, MES for short. Magic enhancing systems are non-physical objects engraved into both the body and the soul of a magic user, they give the user a unique trait to their magic that directly improves it. Magic enhancing systems can be awakened in battle. An awakened MES will unfold the soul of the user in an area around them to efficiently deliver attacks that depend on the type of MES and user magic. There are two types of magic enhancing systems, passive and aggressive. Passive magic enhancing systems gives their user a direct enhancement that improves their fight/survivability and applies a constant intangible effect on anyone inside the awakened MES. Aggressive magic enhancing systems give their users finer control of their magic and improve efficiency, when inside an awakened aggressive MES, other users will get attacked by tangible and devastating blows that will heavily damage other users, hence the name.

Magic vibrates at a certain frequency. The soul of users vibrate as well. When an experienced magic user enters a deep flow state, they are able to temporarily synchronize their soul with their magic in order to achieve what is called Synchronized State, or Synchrostate. When synchronized, a magic user will unlock an average of 2 new spells that cannot be done normally, the synchronization will increase their efficiency, completely remove transmission loss, increase the current magic reserve by 10 times, and significantly increase other basic attributes such as speed or strength. There is a catch, however. In order to stay synchronized the user must be in total focus all the time and any subconscious feeling of defeat will kick them out of the state. The longer someone stays synchronized, the higher the demands for focus are and the higher the recoil if the synchronization fails. A failed synchronization will severely damage the cerebellum and drain 95 to 99 percent of the current magic reserves. The main way to safely desynchronize is to get a subconscious feeling of victory, a subconscious feeling of defeat will result in a desynchronization as well.

That's mostly the core of my power system, I really think that writing this helped me polish my series bible quite a lot! I would talk more about the characters but that would be off topic. Feel free to send feedback for it to improve :)