An Explanation

Alex pushed the grand doors in front of him, the only exit out of the whole building, there were to many Demai, people who's Mana overcame them and turned to a demonic state. Schools were like a gold mine for them, a bunch of underdeveloped Mana users. None of this is aided that by being overcome with Mana, they express more then apt magical and physical abilities. See, Mana changes someone, the more powerful a Mana the more physical change someone would undertake the more they level up, someone with Firestarter would have the strength of a WWE champion by lvl 5, they would also have an incredible resistance to heat caused from exterior sources.

Demai had one weakness, their overwhelming crave for pure Mana, they consume it, and without it they become weak and fragile. A long time ago Schools were powerless against them, left at the mercy of their wards, but now they have Mana weapons. A scientist known as Crysis found that a certain crystal formation can contain more Mana then a human body. Then, with all things, a massive corporation bought up the crystals and started making money off of it, everyone has a Mana weapon. They are displayed in your menu, and touching different qualities of crystal will increase or decrease its strength. A crystal of highest quality could cost upwards of 100 million dollars, so only the rich normally posses them.

Even with the addition of Mana weapons, the Demai are incredibly strong, some even manage to get their hands on these crystals, they're usually the ring leaders to Demai Dens though, so combat with them is rare. Some people dont get a choice in becoming a Demai, they push their limits to save the ones they love and end up being consumed in the Mana. That's what happened to the school nurse before Abby, a Demai attacked and a student was dying, she had like fifty other patients and had to let herself be consumed by Mana to heal them all, she was a new Demai and so still had hummanity left in her, she ended herself before her mind fully went. That's how it normally went with people who didn't have a choice, in their last moments of hummanity they chose to keep everyone else safe.

That was part of Abby's research, if she could heal a Demai's mind and bring them back, but so far it hasn't worked, people think she herself might have to go Demai to gain the power. But Alex believes she just needs to find the right path in the mind to follow, he's always admired her, her ability to just enter someone's mind and feel what and how they are feeling, to be able to heal just with her thoughts.

Alex had been walking for the better half of an hour, he lived a little while away from the school, his family didn't have the money to buy within the schools warded districts. A Synthesizer, which was what his mother was, only got paid so much in the food industry. He walked up to his house, the key was under the mat as always, it was a faux key, yet if inserted backwards it would unlock the house, quite smart of his mother. As soon as he walked through his door his mother rushed to him, a worried expression upon her face. She hugged him tightly, refusing to let go, she knew the time would eventually come.