well, i was gonna wait until later in the fight, but i guess it'd be easier to just tell you here. the Mana is actually evil and dark, but what makes it so is because it changes the one who obtains it to be maniacal in their greatest obsession, and sees their immediate party and anyone who doesn't agree as an opposition to that obsession. the last Normal that obtained it had an obsession to protect his children from a possible takeover from magic users, which is what drove him to produce magic-smithing. every bit of armour that's magic-resistant was constructed by him only, and that's all he did until the day he died, which was only 30 years after he obtained the Mana. That's why I made sure throughout the RP to state how worn magic resistant armours were.