47 On the Way Home from School

One reason I seriously considered attending Sefiron Academy was that academy students could receive mana-tax reductions and exemptions even outside campus.

The special tax deduction for second-circle magic applied not only to near-poor households, but also to academy faculty and students.

Until then, being charged ten thousand or a hundred thousand won in my name for using even trivial magic had left me gasping for breath.

Just as our ancestors could never have imagined an age when people would buy water, I often forgot that I had to pay every time I used magic.

At this rate, would they start selling the air we breathe in the future, too?

Since asking Professor Cheon to pay my mana tax as well, when he was already covering my potion costs, would have been childish, I kept it a secret from him and always paid it myself.

Of course, I still planned to repay the 120,000 won I hadn't paid yet once I had the money.

The five stages of magic were Recording, Infusion, Activation, Storage, and Casting.

Taxes were paid during the ‘Storage’ stage.

When a magic circle activated, the national protocol immediately transmitted the location and phase information of the mana infused into the magic circle to the nearest mana power plant...