Talk:Magic/@comment-122.99.64.53-20171205032410/@comment-10330822-20190105050026

Nothing would happen. You chose an archive and selected a thema from the archive based on the weaknesses in yourself. The grimoire you use acts as a contractor between the archive and you, allowing you to perform research from said archive and develop your magic.

Without doing this process, nothing happens. The reason Arata is able to do it is because of his special magic, Imperium, which allows him to destroy, breakdown, copy, and replicate magic through a complicated analysis process. Even then, his level of mastery isn't necessarily the same, only akin to a vessel that he needs to develop. Arata gets around this by merging his Thema and his copied Thema together to unleash special combo moves with more power than even the original user.