Silas stroked his chin for a moment. Emotions were not the way he used his magic. At first, visualization was the main thing that helped him have better control over his mana.
Silas’ fire was created through combustion. It needed oxygen, fuel, and heat. Mana filled the needs of two of those spots, while oxygen was simply everywhere.
Of course, seeing his grandmother cultivate and use fire magic also helped him in improving his control over it, but her contributions were minuscule in front of the advantage that his knowledge from Earth had given him.
The same thing could be said about the rest of the elements. When he produced ice magic, it was due to a moment of inspiration when seeing that mistwalker create ice out of thin air.
It only took a single glance for him to understand what it had done, and change it in a way that would help him conquer the use of ice magic quite easily. All he had to do was create a water spell and visualize the atoms in the spell slowing down before eventually changing the runes to help with that.
‘Now that I think about it, I don’t think I’m going to be able to use a tier-5 spell in quite a long time… Maybe instead of learning how to improve my elemental control, I should try and discover new applications for these elements.
Hell, if water can create ice, couldn’t fire technically create plasma? Wouldn’t earth magic allow me to control metal, lava, and even crystals too?’ Silas felt himself get more and more excited as the endless practical implications ran through his mind.
He wanted to try them out right away, however, a voice quickly snapped him back to reality.
“Gilea to Silas? You there?” Life asked.
“Yeah… Sorry about that, I got stuck in my own world for a second there.” Silas chuckled.
“No worries. How about you come up here and try drawing a magic circle on a piece of leather using this.” She handed Silas a small pen-like object pulsing with mana as a small topaz crystal radiated at the top of it.
Silas assumed that it was a rune inscriber and simply walked toward the large leather piece before dropping his pen onto it.
‘Wait…’
However, just before he was going to begin inscribing into the leather, he halted for a moment before furrowing his brows.
‘The reason for magic circles in the first place is that they make the process of spell casting automatic.
Simply placing the elemental rune in the middle should draw out the correct mana type and make the spell whatever element you have chosen. The only reason I have to visualize mine is that I have too many elements that mix together to create mana…’ Silas’ eyes began to widen, but he quickly controlled his facial expression when she got near him.
“Silas, what do you imagine when you create healing spells.” Life asked out of the blue.
“Uhm… I don’t really visualize anything.” Silas shrugged, causing her to widen her eyes.
“Wait, I don’t mean it like that. I mean, I don’t visualize anything in particular. I kind of just think of what I want to do before arranging the runes in a way that would fit my needs.” Silas explained, causing Life to furrow her brows and fold her arms.
“I have to say, that’s a little weird.” She chuckled before continuing- “Us light element users are the only ones who have to actually visualize something to bring out our element.
Those other mages look at us as if we are blessed or something, but I can’t help but be a little jealous of them. Imagine being able to create spells by simply having the runes in the right order.” She sighed and fell down upon her chair before chuckling again.
However, a few seconds later, his eyes fell upon Silas and she began to laugh.
“I guess you already know that feeling, Mr. Five Elements. Being able to create spells without having to even visualize or feel anything must be real easy. I wonder if that’s the reason you’re struggling with this.” She tapped her lips with a hint of curiosity, however, the words that came out of Silas’ mouth were not ones she had expected.
“You’re wrong.” He simply stated without saying anything else. Sure, she felt like he probably held that feeling, but she didn’t expect him to simply tell her that she was wrong to her face.
Despite being “just a healer”, no one would have said something like that right to her face due to her being a general, but she probably should have expected something like this from Silas.
He had shown his clear disregard for the generals the moment he met them, and the only one Silas seemed to hold in high regard as Archie, and even then, it seemed like that was only the case due to Archie’s intelligence.
“How am I wrong?” She asked, her voice filled with more curiosity than annoyance.
“How do you think I create spells without saying an incantation?” Silas asked.
“I assume you let out the neceassary amount of your element’s mana at the same time before controlling it and creating a magic circle…” She shrugged.
“You’re half right.” Silas nodded, however, his expression quickly turned serious.
“However, that technique is way too slow. If your control over your elemental energies isn’t strong enough, the magic circle will simply explode in your face. If you aren’t fast enough, the same thing happens.
If you’re just fast enough, it would be considered far too slow compared to using an incantation which I assume you would have shortened by this point of your journey to becoming a better mage.” Silas explained.
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