Drain the Pattern

(• • Prime) Mage: The Sorcerers Crusade 252

Now the magus learns to shift the Fifth Essence within inanimate items. With this Art, she can make an object blaze with power or disappear into nothing. The former spell strengthens an item, making blades that cannot break or wood that cannot burn; the latter consumes the target. A weakened object suffers damage until it falls apart; it takes a lot of work to destroy a large or strong item, but many smaller ones can be annihilated with similar efforts.

By draining Quintessence this way, the magus can also refuel her Daemon anywhere in the material world. Meditation is still necessary, but a Cray is not.