"This shouldn't be working."

My eyes were locked on the flame in my hand. I decided to follow the instructions in that overly fancied textbook to distract me from those Intruders.

Even though the mere presence of these savages brings my theoretical blood to a blood, I have to admit that dancing to their flute is of my best interest.

If I'm not mistaken as long the profit outweighs the dangers they should not use lethal force, but I could be wrong. Such animals can be quite unpredictable.

That's why I'm looking into this magic, the more I think about it the more it irks me. The fire burns with only two components, energy and oxygen. But it should need three, energy, oxygen and FUEL.

It's a universal law, it's the reason why gas needs oxygen mixed in to be fuel, It's the reason that stars can die.

... but a different universe should have different universal laws, in theory.

Does that mean that I'm in a different universe? It would explain quite a bit of bullshit actually. But it's not the only possible explaination.

This "mana", I thought it was energy but it doesn't follow the laws of Ohm. First of, it's slow. Under perfect conditions energy should be able to be faster than the speed of light.

Second of, it's too efficient. No matter how short the distance, as long energy has to move any sort of distance some will get lost. This shit has a 0% rate of loss, that shouldn't be physically possible.

Third of, energy has five different forms, this doesn't. By what I saw mana has a docile and active state. When it's not doing anything and just sitting around, it's docile. When some whore forms it into crows, then it's active.

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Kind of reminds me of the immune system, but dumb.

Still, being a smart ass won't get these filthy savages out of here. They will only leave once they have what they want, which is profit.

Wait... were am I from anyways? Guess I never really thought about it...

...

"What was that?... weird."

I looked down to the small flame on my spiritual hand, nothing special, just some basic pyromancy. But that won't be enough to ensure my safety, I need more firepower.

Theoretically I could... no that would kill me aswell, but it would give me the firepower to make demands. Actually, if I play my cards right I could end this whole world.

No, I should look into less destructive alternatives. A dust explosion for example, I could get started on it right now. All I need to do is get my hands on some flour... which is easier said than done. I can grow wheat, yes, but how to procces it?

Due to a lack of thumbs to do as I say growing a fungus that makes some really flamable spores might be a more affordable solution. Due to a lack of fungus at my desposal I might need to grow a tree that does that instead, might aswell grow the bullet tree.

What would be more efficient? Growing a tree on crack or re-evolving homosapients? No wait, I'm not being creative enough. Couldn't I make a mill that the wolfhounds could use? Might aswell evolve oxes, no Bysons would be better.

But all of that takes time, especially the tree and human ones. I can't just pull out a never seen before species of trees out of nowhere and I can't pull the same trick I pulled with the hounds. The reason I could make canines out of the blueprint of a mouse is because of how close they're related and that's pushing it. If you made mice the size of dogs and gave them the motabolism to survive with that much mass natural selection would, after some generations, make them dogs.

I'm rambling again, dust explosion is not a option in the immediate future. What else is there? Sure I can make everything that's above us come crashing down but that would work only once, after that they'd probably have some magicery fuckery to stop that. Besides, wouldn't that kill me too?

Poison gas actually is a solid pick, would force them to wear masks which would create a massive weakness. Or create a field which keeps the poison out, which would put a limit on how much offensive magic they can use. I will work on the gas once I have aven blueprints, will have to make the birds immune though.

What else is there? A horde of beasts I already tried when they first showed up and-

... What the actual bullshit are those animals doing?