Felix considered for a moment. "It's not that a staff is more user friendly than a wand. When I said that wands are a difficult medium to channel magic through, what I meant is that putting magic through a small wand has a lot of strain on the material. This causes wands to overload and potentially fail on you in crucial times. Staves are more reliable is all. With a wand, because of how small they are, the material has to be of a certain quality or you run the very significant risk of the wand overloading. Unfortunately the woods and metals that stable wands can be made of are very rare, they can only be grown or found in areas with highly concentrated mana waves." Felix explained

"Aetherwoods and aethermetals are hard to come by naturally, and even harder to cultivate artificially. If you ever come upon any seraphwood or umbralwood, you are extremely lucky. You can make a fortune off of the stuff if you could ever figure a viable way of cultivating them. As it stands, places like Academia and the Vatican are in the locations they are because of the highly concentrated mana waves but even they have a hard time cultivating enough of the trees to make weapons from them." Felix waved his hand in the air, a white slender ornate staff 6 feet tall, with a blue glowing mana crystal at the top.

[hider=Staff][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/178309771437277195/283141765500895232/staff.png[/img][/hider]

"This was my staff that I used as a Vatican student. It was required for a class I took, but I never really used it very much after. It's ash wood, which isn't necessarily bad but it definitely is not top of the line by any means." Felix extended the staff out to Zuri, "It might be a bit tall for you, but you can have it until you find yourself a better fit." Felix said with a smile.

"If you don't know how to use your mana inventory I can teach you the beginner incantations used to get accustomed to your mana inventory." Felix suggested.

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Raiya followed Nemo downstairs, [color=ec008c]"I'd like to say that the only place I had ever heard of you was from my childhood and the battle you had with Felix, but that isn't true. I have heard your name many times from many different people in the Yakuza. 白鬼　(Shiro Oni)  is what they call you. Although, most of them talk about you as if you were just a myth, a story to scare children."[/color]

Raiya sat down at the table across from Nemo. [color=ec008c]"I was actually on a lead right before you... er- [i]'recruited'[/i] me" [/color] Raiya explained, putting an emphasis on the recruited part, [color=ec008c]"I had just used my connections to look at the case file that the police had on my parents' murder. Something I found out was that they were Talents, and they definitely weren't killed by normal means. I could sense latent mana waves in the belongings that were bagged as evidence. Though, I know they were their mana waves, the items were saturated in them, and that could only mean they were fighting for their lives before they were killed."[/color] Raiya puffed out a sigh, [color=ec008c]"But it's lookin' like I won't be investigating into this any further anytime soon." [/color]

Raiya cocked an eyebrow at the umeshu, [color=ec008c]"Impressive... Normally I don't like sweet things, but alcohol is a different story. And it has been a hell of a long time since I have had umeshu. The last time was when I was in Japan a few years back."[/color] Raiya took the crystal tumbler glass and held it out in front of her. 

[color=ec008c]"To Japan."[/color] her toast suggestion hung in the air awaiting Nemo to confirm the toast with a clash of their glasses.