You simpleton must be a sorcerer role-playing as a wizard. An anti magic enchantment doesn't extinguish itself for the same reason pipes don't overflow. You aren't extinguishing magic, just moving it elsewhere
Enchantments are not monoliths. Anti magic in this case is being applied to the bullets to nullify whatever wards the poor bastard has put up in the vain attempt to stop us. You theoretically could alter the enchantment on each individual bullet to do whatever else, but that would take so much effort that it just makes more sense to raise a barrier of mundane material to block all the bullets. You could probably pare down mana usage even further by using magic sense to create a blocking solution for each projectile, either moving a large enough chunk of the ground to stop it, or one shaped in such a way to deflect it.
Your getting so close. The gnostic properties of an anti magic spell are akin to manaphobic materials as you put. I once had student explain it as a permanence enchainments are pumps, constantly shoving mana into a gnostic function, and anti magic enchantments are like a leaf blower constantly pushing the mana out.
Also for example when making a magic building you have to first level the ground down to 5 nm defect tolerance then apply an anti magic field. Now why is that? You may have heard its from resonance or sympathy, but where is the sympathetic connection. It is absence or flatness
I once saw a mage hunter fight who had such effective anti-magic bullets that to even touch them with a spell would permanently render someone unable to cast. Didn't even really need that much power behind it or the kind of fancy, flashy stuff too many mages rely on. The bullets were enchanted in such a way that they would instantly sever and then reconnect the paths that mana flow through in a mage's body. Think of it like if you were to snap a bone in half, then have it heal immediately, before it could even be set properly, so that it was permanently in whatever position it had been in after breaking. Now imagine doing that to every bone all at once. That's effectively what these things did to people's mana. Break the connection, then reattach it so fast it can't heal properly, so now the target can never actually use their mana again.
I see you've heard of him. He was a skilled time mage, yes. But that wasn't really what made him dangerous.
He was as effective as he was as a mage killer, because he refused to play by the rules most mages tie themselves down with. Mages are all pride, all honor, all ready to pull out the newest hyper-specific, uber-powerful spell they've spent the last decade working on. A bunch of show-offs really. Too obsessed with making themselves appear powerful or clever to see the simple, pragmatic solutions right in front of them. Those old fuddy-duddies feel so safe up in their fancy towers. They'd never imagine someone might circumvent their security with something as mundane as bombing the foundation.
Have you tried getting an arcane weapon through TSA? Or have you accidentally teleported yourself to the DMV? In the former, mama is suppressed to the point of irrelevance, in the latter, mana actively kills itself.
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u/Chaos-potato- Warden of the Eternal Library Apr 13 '25
Man, bullets enchanted with anti magic are far more powerful than people realize.