The Vicha’s selective consumption was the prime example of all that made witchcraft so utterly non-transparent. It consumed higher life forms. It also consumed those types of magic that conveyed energy into matter, such as physical illusions and shards. In core, it seemed to selectively devour physical masses with strong energies. How was this possible? How could the Vicha consume dense and potent energies without accessing the Alladharian Dimension, and how could it interact with the corresponding bodies without being anchored in the Material Dimension?
There was a logic behind this. There was indeed a rule, and Yves had found it: The Vicha only affected dual existences. In the pursuit of the unknown and untaught, this selective consumption directed his third premise:
If the Vicha was neither anchored in the Material Dimension nor in the Alladharian,
and if it could only consume those dual existences that were anchored in both dimensions,
then it affected neither physical matter nor Rothar directly, but the link between them.
A wizard’s body and his Rothar were somehow linked. Magic that transformed energy into matter relied on this link. Even the act of sustaining the wizard body through energy, instead of physical sustenance, was only possible because of such a link. Yves believed that the Vicha, not anchored in either dimension, exploited these links. It could only consume dual existences founded in a link between matter and Rothar, akin to tapping into a vein that was non-existent in lifeless matter and raw energy, and too feeble in simple natural existences and light fragments.
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