User:LukeHeartfillia/Territory

Territory (絶対領土 (テリトリー) Teritorī lit. Absolute Territory) is one of the most powerful Caster Magics known in Earth Land. It's a dangerous magic that is centered around the total manipulation of space, bending it to one's will. Like the Arc of Embodiment, the limits of this magic are unknown. When Laura begins to use this magic, their hands start glowing a rainbow-like color, slowly allowing a special invisible sphere to appear all around her and beyond their range of space, allowing anything and everything inside of the sphere to be controlled by them when they produce the magical membrane to produce from their hands. In the area surrounded by the sphere, Laura is actually able to command and control everything around them within a certain degree, allowing them to be manipulated in any way the she can think of and producing incredible spells that can actually be alter to affect a different part of the area, often redirecting powerful spells to not affect anyone else aside from the surrounding territory within the sphere's range.

Territory magic allows Laura to control all the Space around her, which generally counts any open area. She is allowed to compress this space, expand it, make it explode (which is done by compressing and then expanding it all of a sudden). It is interesting to note that Territory magic works on the principle of law of conservation of energy; thus implying that Space can neither be created nor destroyed. To be put simply, Laura cannot create Space- she can only manipulate it and make it bend to her will. The woman can use Space as a form of offense, defense and even make use of it for utility purposes. She can go as far as generating heat with this magic, which is achieved by bringing the particles of Space close to each other and thus creating friction; further resulting onto the birth of heat. However, it is to be noted that the heat is nowhere near causing a fire and cannot even be consumed by Fire Slayers or anything; no matter how high the temperature would be. The reason behind this is simple; the unavailability of anything solid that would burn- since Space certainly cannot burn with flames. However, the greatest potential that this Magic offers lies in its trapping and damaging capacities; as Laura has the option to imprison any living being of her choice inside the Space that surrounds them, and if Laura desires so, can suck magical energy away. The sapping is done by utilizing the vacuoles within each and every cell of her opponent's body. Laura, as a highlypotent mage has spread the tentacles of her magic deep enough to perform such feats. The sapping is visualized in the same way any other magic would be; by creating some sort of an orb around the opponent and sucking away the energy depending the purpose and strength of the spell used.

Versatility is the name of the game in the mage world, and Absolute Territory provides heaps of it. Laura is capable of using the the Space around her in any shape and form that she wishes and it works brilliantly well- bending to her ever will and command. Laura is enabled to project her magic (that is, the Space that she marks as her Territory) in the form of beams, whip-like attacks, or alternatively multiple missile-like barrages. She can also warp, compress or reduce the Space around her to provide herself with physical enhancements such as flight or alternatively materialize the Space into tentacle-like appendages which can restrain her opponent to a location, thus making them potentially more vulnerable to her attacks.

There's some science working behind every magic out there; or atleast a semblance of science. In the case of Territory, this magic is associated with Particle Magic and Air Magic (the latter being a usually misinterpreted conclusion by opponents). Particle Magic is nothing other than the science of molecular and atomic physics; and Territory is highly similar to this. However, what irks even logic is the fact that Territory magic seems to be controlling the atoms and molecules of Space. The question is, does Space really have atoms or molecules. For the sake of clarification, lets say it does- since that is the only way an ambiguous magic like Territory could be explained. Albeit, it is to be noted that Space is not the air in the open space, since Territory magic can be used with the same effectiveness even in conditions with vacuum. Understanding the real science behind this magic is near to impossible unless one understands what Laura is controlling in the name of Space. To be honest, she herself doesn't have any idea how to put the magic's element. All she understands is that she can feel, and control the area around her and bring about a plethora of effects for her enemies--- thus transforming into the worst nightmare for her enemies, a nightmare wielding the power of nightmares; complete ambivalence under a different name.

Laura is able to conjure a wave-like matter that resembles a tomoe and is generally what the Space looks like when it is compressed due to her powers. This wave of Space generally comes in translucent rainbow shades, with a higher vibrancy of the color red. There is no particular reason for the red shade, but is something that is associated with Laura only- just like many Fire mages can have purple or red flames. No big deal. Other than that, the spells of Territory have incantations that come in a strange and unusual language, a language Laura picked up during her training and took a great fascination to. She ended up naming the spells of her new magic after certain words in this less-spoken, but ominous sounding language. Occasionally, Laura has to make use of various hand-signs and stances for activation of certain higher-ranked spells. These acts are similar to how Make mages have stances or how Slayers tend to bellow their spell names to induce a higher level of concentration and, in some cases, even fear.

It could be a potential doubt as to what happens when Laura compresses the Space around her and utilizes it for her own purposes. Here, we have to see Space as air. Air is in a constant flux of motion and the particles of air keep changing positions- replacing each other's positions randomly. Similarly, when Laura happens to compress or expand the Space, the Space all around in that particular area would replace the compressed space and if the Space is allowed to expand, then the particles of Space in some other part of Laura's Territory would come closer; thus keeping the amount of Space in the atmosphere at more or less at constant levels.

Spells
Portals:The working of this ability is the easiest to understand. Laura simply has to create two orbs of Territory magic in two different places and she is set. With the ability to manipulate Space, Laura can swap the Space inside the two orbs- thus transporting anything within one Territorial orb into another. How she makes it happen, is another theory : She would create a spherical membrane of Territory around the object / person she wants to teleport and then leaving a little bit of distance- create another membrane. The Space between these two membranes is... well, space. So, Laura would control it and swap it with another Territorial orb. In this process, anything inside the orb would swap places as well. This is generally a non-combative ability; but can be utilized in spells. It can also be used by Laura to travel from one place to another, as long as she has a clear image of the place she wants to end up in. So, it can only be places that she has visited atleast once in her life time.

Aerial Territory: Any and every bit of Space within Laura's Territory is under her command, so by using a meager amount of 1% MP per post, Laura can cause the Space in the air to condense for her. This is used by her to make invisible steps for herself in the air and she can use this ability to climb up in the air just like any individual will climb a staircase. The maximum height she can reach with this ability is 15 meters and Laura can create about 2 steps per second.

Visphot: Laura creates a small, concentrated orb of Territory magic by compressing the Space around a certain place. This orb has a radius of 1.5 centimeter and it can place it anywhere within a range of seven meters of her position. The orb remains stationary in the air, waiting until some living creature other than Laura walks within a range of three meters around it. When a person enters the said range, the orb detonates with an explosion of six meters diameter without a second's delay.