She gestured toward the window. "Before the collapse, this world was nothing like what we know now. No one could use magic. Mana simply didn't exist."
"And yet, after the red moon shattered… the world changed."
Arianna leaned forward slightly, her voice dropping lower.
"The air itself became different. The oceans. The land. Even living creatures. It was as if reality itself had been rewritten."
She looked at them carefully.
Ed swallowed. So mana wasn't something natural—it was a consequence this is new thing he hadn't expected that.
Zareth frowned slightly. "But if mana came from the red moon's destruction, then… does that mean the moon itself was made of mana?"
Arianna's lips curled slightly. "That is the theory."
Silence followed.
She folded her hands together. "The red moon's destruction did not just bring mana… it brought something else."
Zareth raised an eyebrow. "Gates"
"Yes, the gates"