In a sense. Nasods were already a forbidden technology by that point, but El as a resource became limited due to a large-scale disaster some five hundred years ago. It's an issue that's being worked on, but those details aren't relevant to this topic since alternative energy sources are already under development.

[He absolutely loves a demonstration tho, yeah. Add leans in for a better look as Dynamo also starts to invade Val's personal space. He is getting SWARMED.]

Fascinating... mana takes a visible form, so it's almost like a form of magic? Not something I'd normally be interested in, but since Nasod was developed to circumvent magic use... similar to how demon technology operates, perhaps... [mumble mumble

Dynamo jitters excitedly next to him. He wants to touch it so bad but respect for his fellow engineer is making him behave... Eve would be proud, the training paid off.]