Upon death, the player character respawns at his castle. Besides storing mana, the player's castle also serves as a home base for the player character where he can regain health and mana. Īs the player expands the castle, it spawns additional balloons and armed guards that defend the castle against attacks by enemy wizards. The player character can have up to two spells equipped at a time, one for each hand. Greater amounts of mana stored in the castle allow the player to expand the castle and cast more powerful spells. To accomplish this, the player has to possess the mana so that mana-collecting balloons bring them to the player's castle (the balloons ignore mana that are unpossessed or possessed by an enemy wizard).
The player can destroy enemy monsters and then salvage the mana they leave behind, represented by pearls of varying sizes. The total mana level is fixed in each world. The goal in each world is to build a castle and fill it with the necessary percentage of the total mana in the current level (or "world"), restoring it to "equilibrium". The player has to visit several small spherical "worlds" (45 in the original game and an additional 25 in the expansion). Only his apprentice survived and his goal is to restore the worlds to equilibrium. One wizard hoped to end everything with an all-powerful spell but instead only left the worlds shattered. The battling wizards began using more destructive spells and summoning deadly monsters, the latter of which often turned against them. Worse, many corrupt wizards began turning to mana for their own nefarious purposes, eventually leading to war between them. According to this back story, mana was discovered and though it initially had beneficial uses, the quest for it made the lands barren. The story is told in a cutscene that depicts the pages of a book being flipped. The player plays a wizard on a magic carpet flying over water, mountains and other terrain while destroying monsters and rival wizards (which are controlled by the computer) and collecting " mana" which is gathered by hot air balloons and stored in the player's own castle.
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