[Why not indeed? The look Kratos shoots Skulduggery is amused, exasperated and quelling all at once. 'Why not' is the reason the Great Tree was killed. 'Why not' was how angels were made. 'Why not' does not speak well of the restraint possessed by the residents of this planet.]
Mana.
[Kratos closes his fist, and then opens it again to show Skulduggery the mana dying in it.]
This is mana. Electricity? Electricity mana.
[He pulls out the lightning, pushes in the light, as a glow around his hand and shining through his being.]
And this is mana.
[Again; pulls out the lightning, pushes in fire, as a blazing fireball in his hand.]
And this.
[Snuffed out.]
Whole -- all? All mana.
[But different, and powering different things. Exspheres are a common catalyst of magitechnology, an alternative to risking the mana of the Tree, but mana is what powers it regardless of source. Derris-Kharlan's technology doesn't run on exspheres. Derris-Kharlan has greater mana stores than did the Tree; the self-contained fusion in its core is not unlike a sun, in some respects, at least in principle if not using the same components.]
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Mana.
[Kratos closes his fist, and then opens it again to show Skulduggery the mana dying in it.]
This is mana. Electricity? Electricity mana.
[He pulls out the lightning, pushes in the light, as a glow around his hand and shining through his being.]
And this is mana.
[Again; pulls out the lightning, pushes in fire, as a blazing fireball in his hand.]
And this.
[Snuffed out.]
Whole -- all? All mana.
[But different, and powering different things. Exspheres are a common catalyst of magitechnology, an alternative to risking the mana of the Tree, but mana is what powers it regardless of source. Derris-Kharlan's technology doesn't run on exspheres. Derris-Kharlan has greater mana stores than did the Tree; the self-contained fusion in its core is not unlike a sun, in some respects, at least in principle if not using the same components.]