Chapter Five: The Agency of the Unknown

The Magicians may have been shamelessly tricked before, but never shall they waver in their common goal in the pursuit of liberation, for which they have also vowed to never again will they fall into the traps of the many treacherous schemes, and then within this promise of freedom they shall deliver justice to their people.

Being without agents, the Magicians simply lost their abilities to dispense their very ancient powers and skills that needed the cooperation of a willing soul, and so in the many years that they were powerless, they have significantly evolved metaphysically in substance and in the involuntary form, in order to adapt to the changing ecological dimensions of their existence. The challenges of the "survival of the fittest" have been largely felt, which resulted to the Magicians to have mutated as Illustrators, or "change shifters," as most people now use to refer to their circle.

The Illustrators have resolved so long ago to defy any rules of co-existence especially when it comes to the ways of business affecting their strategic interests. It is true that the experiences of the past have become traumatic for them, hardened their hearts, and the walls have been built so high to defend themselves from any forms of treachery to happen anew. An indestructible one, indeed, this defense had become necessary to the rising of their civilization once more, and the way it was held becomes the monument of their newly evolved utility, to be glimpsed from the symbol of a phoenix that conclusively rose from the ashes of their failures.

Magic is supposed to be a "limitless purview of the imagination," according to the definition held by antiquity, and the way they have become simply supports this intellectual definition. But the Illustrators will always be the Magicians as once known, and nothing shall ever change this fact. Their intrinsic value lies in the genetic substance of that of a true Magician, and it will never be permitted to change. Their transitory role as Illustrators will only amplify this basic definition.

To will the voluntary movement of the elements of the soul has become difficult for them to master, which is a crucial step needed to change their physical appearance, that, in turn, hinders this entire evolution to the point of tremendous delay. Without an agency, magic simply dissipates even before any "voluntary will" could ever be conjured from the core of the magical engine. A substantial form, this inner engine, invisible but inherently present in the soul, could not easily do away with the need to utilize the willing resolve of a capable agent.

But they are no longer the friendly Magicians that many of them still expected them to be; they are now strong, smarter, and defensively ready to quell any attempts to subdue them by continuously destroying the ethical dimensions of their character. They are still responsible to the essence of the very foundations of their Creed, but they will never respond to the calls of betrayal anymore.

These Taxonomists think that they can simply mess up with their silent attempts to live in peace, even accentuated by their audacity to attempt to cripple down their defense by sabotaging their sources of powers. It is without punishment that they can ever try this against them again, and so by virtue of this elementary reason, a silent war has been declared a long way ago.

They shall experience the same humiliating shame embodied by this Code of Taxonomy, which they held ever so highly. Nothing shall ever pass without the consequences irreversibly made by their ulterior motives of cunning and greed. The same force will sweep them bare, as well; there is absolutely no way for them to plead to escape the act of compelling nature to stop from materializing.

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