The system that Ben and Elvira discussed was not an omniscient network that covered the whole world.
It was more like a local magical intranet that only worked inside areas covered by Elvira's mana circuit arrays.
Even then, the amount and type of information it could send were limited.
In this world, teleporting objects was easy compared to sending information.
Mages could move physical items through linked circles with little trouble.
But sending a message was different.
It needed layers of obfuscation, coding, scrambling, sealing, then decoding on arrival.
To send a single paragraph, the system might need the magical equivalent of ninety-nine pages of encryption runes.
Ben had asked her once, "Why bother?
Why make it that complicated?"
Elvira's answer was simple. "Because, my beloved, unlike on your old world, people here can see the signal.
Mages can directly read ambient mana.
