[No! No breaks! If you want to go with older women, you gotta learn to stand on your own two feet.

She rests her hand against his shoulder as she follows his finger over the tablet. An occasional 'I see', or 'so that's what that does' is muttered.]

So they're taking their powers and then destroying them? That would certainly make more sense. How did they replicate them? It's impossible for someone without a mana lobe to use our artes.