These places had become the breeding grounds of monsters.
But if negative magic continued to build up unchecked, that pattern would break.
Monsters would start appearing anywhere, regardless of location and they would be far stronger than anything seen before, born instantly from a dense mass of corrupted power.
It was even possible that a Calamity-class monster, the kind of creature humanity feared most, could suddenly appear right in front of someone's home.
And yet… the world had not been destroyed.
That fact alone proved the existence of one single exception a way to purify negative magic and return it to its natural form.
It was called sorcery, the art of wielding magic power without using a magic circle.
Magic used through sorcery did not corrupt the natural flow of energy. Instead, it purified it.
In fact, it was said that true sorcery could cleanse even the densest negative magic around it.
