The 'nope' region covers the whole surface of the planet above a certain latitude (not the Equator, which passes through the continent), and blocks everything from several hundred miles into the earth up to the very top of the storm clouds above.

That is... Strange. No Neuroi on the edges... There's something completely impermeable to this version of farsight a couple hundred miles in. So I can't say for sure there aren't any but it seems likely to be something else? But, Jesus, that is one big storm.

Yeah we can't really see beyond it with our magic either. It's just a huge blind spot.

That's unsettling, but not as much as Neuroi... Right. Kinds of magic. Metamancer, arcanist, enchanter, and elementalist. Metamancers sense and edit magic, and are stereotyped as evil. Where are we relative to civilization, anyway?

Er, rather far, this is an ancient abandoned ruin no one's ever found before.

At least I can fly. You're a metamancer, correct? Didn't you say those don't generate their own mana?

Yeah but metamancers can drain it off other people or, since I'm not a horrible person, off magic scrolls and artefacts. Want me to explain the rest of magic?

Yes, but first I want to see if you can drain my mana, and the mana in this amulet. (Toss.)

He squints at the amulet.

It's magic! It likes that the amulet is shiny and golden, and this gemstone has a minor flaw but it's only leaking a little bit. Does he want this magic?

Yeah, he'll try getting a bit of it. He'll see if he can't just—"hold" it, before assimilating it.

The magic thinks he's weird and doesn't care about him. He can't hold it for long and it won't do the thing where Kaede's children could maybe have this kind of magic. Assimilating it might still work, but he definitely can't keep it in this form.

...that is a lot of information and he's not really getting all of it. Can he assimilate it?

...Mumble grumble fine, nobody else is using it right now.

Okay so he does that.

And he has a little of a new kind of mana. And then he doesn't anymore.

I absorbed the mana but it disappeared as soon as I did. I might be able to convert it into one of my kinds, though.

Interesting result. Maybe Witch magic doesn't like you because you're not a Witch? That's what it sounded like - whoosh, gone.

Yeah, possibly. Do you have any more for me to try to convert it?

Sure. She telekinetically grabs the amulet with a little tugging motion, touches it briefly, and now it has some more mana. Toss again.

And now he tries to convert it into arcanist mana—

It's physically effortful, like climbing a set of stairs- Or more like picking up a fork with just this much. But it doesn't flee him, he now has some Arcanist mana.

...huh. That's interesting, is using your kind of magic tiring? And for that matter is your kind of mana finite?

"Hm... Using a lot of mana at once damages the body. We generate more rapidly, at least until we get older. I would say a day's worth is about the maximum you can hold at once without gold."

Huh. Fascinating. The only thing we have like that works like that is the mana of individual elementalist blessings.