Before undertaking new research, a scholarly guild had to consult with the Tower of the Scholar to determine if the topic had already been studied to exhaustion by another group. If it had been, even successful duplication of the results would receive no recognition or reward from the Central Assembly.0

In other words, the research on hypermagic had indeed stagnated for all these years. It was an undeniably complex topic, but to Sieg and Avia, hardly insurmountable. Once Sieg pointed out the connection between draconic magic and hypermagic, the Council of the Arcane's progress had accelerated dramatically.0

This devotee of the Church of Nightfall had correctly gauged the research on hypermagic based on the data Wang Yu provided, suggesting that the guild he had once belonged to had already reached a similar threshold. It might not have been the final step, but with this barrier broken, the road ahead would be far smoot...0