[Balada: A Symphony of Eternity 06] • An Endless Host of Sorrows Pale, That We Have Lived But Now Scarcely Feel

In the year 5.553 a new discovery was made by six grand mages during the Island Project.

While they were researching the possibility of a person with the right equipment being able to summon and control a spell without the need for close proximity and direct contact with the crystals, therefore eliminating the need for intense training for spells in general and giving the user extra protection, which led indirectly to the creation of the many magical devices, namely: chariots, space ships, universas, farviews and the other countless magical devices now common and taken for granted, they also discovered a very surprising mathematical fact.

An equation which said that the degree of resistance to a spells ‘heat’ was inversely proportioned to its resistance to a spells ‘flame’.

This was an astounding discovery and upon being in direct contact with the ‘flame’ by means of using heavy shielding and smaller spells to indirectly manipulate the energy, it was discovered that A class energy was not the absolute limit!

This shocked the whole world, since it meant that there was an unknown potential which they were unable to access, do to the limitations of the flesh and so, they built the Vesuvius reactor, where they started experimenting with the possibility of a new type of magical energy, one that required extensive shielding on the user’s part in order to be activated.

The first successful experiment was conducted deep in the desert, roughly 50 miles away from the control bunker and 10 miles below ground and when the reactor was started, the world shook from its hinges, for a massive underground explosion was unleashed, one which even though it was buried deep beneath the surface, a great mushroom cloud rose miles high into the sky, as a great blinding light engulfed the region for a few moments.

That day the world changed forever, for it was the day that S class energy was discovered!

Encyclopedia Galactica, 5067 Edition.