Magic users draw power from higher beings/planes of reality/dimensions in order to cast spells. AIM causes harm to magicians and espers who try to use magic. Is it possible that AIM doesn't so much as harm people casting magic but rather cuts them off from their source and, without that power, the spells are compensated by taking from the spellcaster's life-force? When someone looses their life-force, symptoms range from going comatose to literally falling to pieces.
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