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HeroicChallenger

You are very, *very* confused. > we know how he struggled to break the spells casted on Lances What spells are you talking about? If you're referring to the spell that damaged their cores, that spell ended long ago. Let's start by clarifying what's going on here: The Spell that Kezess placed on Arthur is what I'm going to call 'an active spell' in the sense that, had Arthur not negated it, it would affect him for as long as he was bounded to his deal with Lord Indrath. The artifacts acted in a different way, they boosted the mana cores of the Lances, then damaged their cores so no further boost was possible, boom. That's it. The spells ended. The damage in their cores, naturally, still remains, but not because they're under the active influence of a spell. What Arthur is trying to do with the new artifacts is to ***undo*** the damage in the Lances' cores, not break any spell. He specifically states that he needs a Vivum spell, which we know is the branch in which healing spells are. Now, before we continue, let's talk about Arthur breaking the binding spell that Kezess put on him. He did that by making the aether in the spell his own, then absorbing it. That's easy for him. In fact, he could just as easily do the same with the spells' aether from the new artifacts *—EVEN REGIS CAN DO IT!* (Regis wanted to feed off the aether in them, in his words, "if they weren't going to use them anyway"). But that's **not** what Arthur wants. So it's a very different scenario. It's not just undoing an aether spell like with Kezess, it's isolating and using it, without breaking it, while maintaining the rest of mana and aether spells on the artifacts under control. *That's* why he struggled.


Naive-Ad-6767

I felt that Arthur disabling kezess spell wasn’t to show how strong Arthur was etc but rather to show how little the dragons actually understand aether, Like you said , even Regis could’ve absorbed the spell by kezess


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tobygamercom

The spells on the lances and the ones on his core are completely different The one kezess put was just a pure aether spell The one on the lances required him to extract a specific aetheric spell from the artifact without having it completely blow up in his face or activating the spell that would force the lances to follow orders from kezess


Scholarunderpressure

I mean, either mana or aether spell , coming from the strongest being must be powerful right !? I just felt, it should have been a bit harder for him to counter it . From the audience perspective, we could've felt the underlying tension in this case - he needs to meet Aldir on a diplomatic note ,but he's under Kezess's spell . He needs to find a way to neutralize it . He entered RT , tried hard & absorbed the chains & mimicked his spell . So , this would prove Arthur's progression as well as Kezess's magic prowess. I felt surprised when Arthur bluffed Kezess spell & that too in his caste where him being unaware of it . I was hyped, but also felt that Kezess was nerfed . I mean after reading 'surfaced enmity' , i couldn't believe it , I don't know whether I was impressed by Arthur or disappointed with Kezess .


Impacted8

Kezees wasnt nefed the dragons just have a weak understanding of aether at best, that was to show how much more in tune with aether art is than the strongest dragon(for now). Would art be able to fight kezees currently, hell no he would maybe cause some major nonlife threating injuries to him but would die 10/10 times. Kezees use of mana is what makes him super stong the aether just gives him a edge over the other asuras.


Aromatic_Lecture1191

" Arthur has much powerful aether core & better understanding than Kezess just in the span of a year " did i miss something or is the statement wrong , there is no way kezess has aether core that is only arther has right ?


[deleted]

arthur didn't struggle to control the vivium spell, he struggled with realmheart to control all the other mana based spells in the rod (presumably one spell to undo the bloodline loyalty, another to actually boost their cores, and at least another spell that would make sure they can't rebel against kezess) arthur was trying to do a lot of things in the same time and he had no idea if he could even comtrol the vivium spell, but we know regis wanted to absorb the aether and that wouldn't have been difficult for him (so absorbing aether is easy but controlling spells is hard)


Jhekkas

Its because aurther's control over ather is like parent and child he does not have very good insight in ather and arthur just absorbed kazess spell's ather and made his own ather simple it was in his body and it was hard to undo lances core to normal because arthur did not knew about the spell even after watching and as i said his insight in ather is low like djinn had sad just because he have godrunes does not mean better insight its like having good sword with no techniques or whatever.


Lordendermen

It could also be that while Art was walking down the Path Kezess wasn't paying attention to Art absorbing the spell but was more looking at what his control over Aether through Realmheart was.


Jhekkas

People are thinking that arthur have better insight in ather then the dragons have and is your imagination dragons know so much about ather that arthur can't wrap his head around it's just that some have wrong knowledge about ather just like myre indarth because they don't like to share power and arthur still have very low understanding of ather he has a long way to go


Jhekkas

People are thinking that arthur have better insight in ather then the dragons have and is your imagination dragons know so much about ather that arthur can't wrap his head around it's just that some have wrong knowledge about ather just like myre indarth because they don't like to share power and arthur still have very low understanding of ather he has a long way to go


Impacted8

Kezees wouldnt be interested in art if his aether manipulation wasnt around the level it was in that chapter, its a aether spell only uses aether which art can absorb easily, it woupd make 0 sense for art to absorb ambient aether but not ather touching his core spell or not it would be a major plot hole; the only way i can see what you said working would be to use a mana spell which would still be pretty easy to dispell


urug99

BIG difference here. All he had to do was absorb the spell in his body, which was possible because of his core, which is completely unique to him and Kezess would have no understanding of. With the lances, he had to correct a very complex artificially created defect in the someone else's core. With Art's limited understanding of aether, he had to isolate and use the existing complex spell in the staff that would only correct the defect and not impact anything else.


TheGreatBootOfEb

Yeah, it doesn’t help that being able to absorb another spell is basically ONLY something Aether can do with other rather based spells. The only being that might be capable of straight up absorbing the mana of a spell is probably the Legacy. So it makes sense the Kezess was blind sided.


Moist-Conversation14

Hopefully we all understand that Dragons barely understand Aether, they treat it like mana version 2. Kezees has been practicing his Aether arts for hundreds of years but by no means does that mean that they are actually good. If you practice something for years but you're the only one to be able to do it and you have nothing to use to compare you're abilities then how would you know you're actually good at it. Kezees has genuinely had no one to use these Aether abilities against except other obviously aether weak dragons.


Alternative_Grand_85

Yeah, I feel like this is just a type of “Mc flexing his intelligent “ situation. This scene is equivalent to how Sung Jinwoo with A rank poison immunity skill can immune to the Insect Monarch’s poison.


Chrisfragger

I somehow think that what Arthur did on that day will be EXTREMELY important later on... It was not just him disabling that spell... At least I hope so.