Board Thread:Advice from Ashy, the "Competent Zeref."/@comment-30807545-20161013104945/@comment-30807545-20161013122934

Ash, what you said is kinda.... Don't wanna say "retarded", but more "utterly ridiculous". What you're saying is that all magic in its complexity came from 400 and everything before that was primitive. That in itself is unrealistic. It's impossible to survive for that long while being able to live on simple degrees of magic, especially you have dragons in the sky trying to kill you at every given moment. Like evolution, magic evolved over time and the schools, like the one Zeref went to, aided in that. If magic was as simplistic before the academy, like you're mentioning, then it would absolutely impossible for people to live long.

Now, I never mentioned these people being able to obtain the Curse of Contradiction from Ankhseram. All I said that White Arts created as a means to combat the most malicious threats, such as Demons and evil entities. Also, it combats the effects of other things deriving from the Black Arts. The world didn't start 400 years ago, and the FTverse must have a rich history of magic usage. No one got up and said "Hey, let's create a Magic Academy just because....!", there must have been intellectuals, and by extension, powerful mages who had created complex magic from which others can be derived from.