Try using Jetsha to burn the letter C into the wood, keeping the staff well back so that only the tip of the jet is close to the surface of the block.
The spell is affixed to the staff. But activating it, seems tricky enough. You decide to try and extend a Kahigan over your shoulder and into the staff head, focusing on the cylinder labelled 'Jet.'
[-] Rather than a jet of fire, however, you receive a second sight. Or a third eye, if that makes sense. You're using the staff as a third eye, and this eye gives you a very narrow but magnified view of something in the distance, as if you were looking through your staff, though slightly downward at an angle. Each blade of grass is as large as your hand.
Lightly touch my staff with my Sha, like I did earlier. It may conduct away from the staff instead of into it, but I figure it will glow like before.
Use the glowing staff to carve 'Oppositioner' into the wood.
You know enough about Kahigan now to realize that the Sha's point of origin is located higher than the other two Kahigan. You raise one over your head and grab your staff with it, and it glows cherry red with warmth. It etches the letter C quite crudely, but when you present the finished item to the professor, he decides it's good enough. He seems to think you used a spell to do it, instead of the Sha alone.
Try to use my Go to help gently unhook my... other thing. Me or equivalent, probably?
You unhook your Sa Re (you think that was what it's called?), and notice that the room is once again as dim as it was. The Kahigan disappears, and people stop shouting at the exact moment.
So, Tar. Life, then add Earth and Fire, roughly 75% Earth, 25% Fire.
Trial 1. Life and Earth mix immediately before you add the fire. The hexagonal gemstone representing earth merges with the sprout, causing its stem to thicken, and its surface to petrify into a bark-like feature. Its leaves split into branches.
Adding a little bit of fire, you notice steam filling the flask, and the wooden sapling dries up and turns petrified.
Trial 2. You try to add both Earth and Fire in at once, and you notice Earth combining with the Fire, gaining a metallic surface. The metal then refuses to combine with the Life sample. Perhaps Metal is inimical to Life?
Trial 3. You try mixing them all at once. The Fire preferentially favors the Life over Earth, and mixes in with that as Earth mixes in with it at the same time. The Life seems to combine with both at once... turning black as coal.
"While I can't say I like the weapon-drawing, I do agree with your words. A mage who doesn't use their knowledge for other's benefits, and just try to get wealthy, are just as bad as nobles who hoard their wealth in their castles while their subjects starve. I was just pointing out that most people could care less about altruism, which explains why magic can cause all the issues with town being destroyed, etc."
"Carazhan fell by a petty squabble between two gangs of magicians, if you would be so informed," explains the professor.
"So, a lack of altruism perhaps, but the historical consensus was that it was a power struggle.""That only proves my point. There can't be a power struggle if those in power reinforce their positions with magic. Right?""That's not the only possible end result, now is it?" Sir Laissez Faire Approach interjects.
"Carazhan may have been a tragedy, but one could argue that rational parties wouldn't be so careless. Carazhan was overtaken by a craze not unlike witch hunts and revolutionary outbursts." 
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