"Why can't I become a mage?"

"Child, magic is the most wondrous power in the world. If we want to fully control it, we must rely on the power of the gods. There is only one possibility if you can't form a contract with a god: you are someone abandoned by the gods. How can someone abandoned by the gods practice magic?"

"Why must we form a contract with a god to practice magic? Besides, there's another possibility for not being able to contract with a god!"

"What possibility?"

"I am also a god!" nine-year-old Gaia replied.