For millennia, the Church Court has suppressed Wizards by using specific ritual sites and Holy Artifacts scattered across the Continent to continuously and slowly siphon away the World Origin.
Although the total amount siphoned is minuscule compared to the world itself, over long years and months, it has inevitably inflicted irreversible damage upon the world's "vitality" and "depth."
It is like continuously harvesting the finest timber from a forest. Even if only a few trees are cut each time, after a millennium, the very landscape of the forest would be forever altered.
Even though Murphy was spearheading the Church Court's reformation, he was unable—and lacked the power—to overthrow this fundamental system that had persisted for a millennium.
The levels of power involved were far too high, beyond his current reach.
Since this "pump" could not be stopped, or even significantly slowed, the only thing Murphy could do was change the "flow's" destination.
