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.
“My point is, you need something more than just control over mana. You become easy prey the moment you decide to use all your brain power to control a single thing. The solution is to visualize.” Silas raised his hand and pointed it at the chalkboard at the front of the room.
Slowly, a tier-1 magic circle formed before his hand. It was blue in color and floated before Silas’ hand for a few moments before a small sphere made out of water materialized in front of it.
“If you can visualize it, the runes will move, morph, and contort in any way you want. All you need is knowledge, and the rest is implemented almost automatically. The runes understand your thoughts… All you need to do is-” Silas let out a breath and caused the sphere of water to split into two, before splitting again and becoming six.
They all floated around the magic circle as the runes on it changed at a rapid pace, trying to keep up with the movements of the spheres.
“When you can invision what you want…” Silas muttered again before snapping his fingers and making the runes a light icy blue.
“Magic can change reality into exactly what you want.” Silas snapped his fingers away and turned the balls into water once more. They began to quickly spin around a single point before contorting and stretching toward the middle, slowly creating a drill made out of water that was spinning faster and faster every time more water was put in it.
“Do you understand?” Silas asked before glancing at Life and deactivating the magic circle, causing the water drill to fall to the ground as if it had never been spinning in the first place.
“That’s… That’s amazing.” She muttered, her eyes locked onto the exact place the water drill was a few seconds earlier.
“Oh… Thanks.” Silas shrugged as if it was no big deal, but in reality, he had shown her something she would probably never achieve in her life time.
Sure, Life wasn’t old. She was in her late twenties and she had many more things to do with her life. However, despite making it seem easy, what Silas had told her was a half lie.
Sure, the runes align themselves almost automatically the moment he thinks of how they work, but that’s because he already understood how runes worked. He had dedicated the majority of the first 6 years of his life to understanding magic.
Of course, he wanted to learn about light magic too, but for some reason Diveen continued to reject all his proposals for her to become his teacher.
However, now he had a teacher capable of teaching him how to create light magic, and he needed to make sure that she felt like the exchange was equal.
Silas wanted her to think that she was benefiting from their little cooperation too, so he showed her something that would be close to impossible for her to learn without breaking down everything she ever new about magic and learning it all over again.
This way, she wouldn’t stop teaching him, because if she does achieve the goal of creating a magic circle without saying a word the same way he did, it would be so far in the future that he would most likely already be superior to her in magical and physical strength.
Becuase, in the end, it was only due to his Earthling perspective that he was able to understand magic in a way that the people of this planet could not understand.
it was a little like germ theory. If you want to a human 2000 years before the germ theory and told them that they had tiny microscopic creatures living all over their bodies, inside and outside, they would most likely laugh at you even if you had evidence to prove your theory correct.
To them, it would seem impossible. Their minds were blocked from all sides, boxed into a little tiny cage that controlled everything anything they thought about.
‘Though, maybe I should take advice from people from Gilea… Thier theories most likely came from somewhere, right? No matter how much I wouldn’t like to admit it, I’m not thinking outside the box. Throughout my entire life on this planet, I thought about everything through the lense of an earthling. What if, just for once, I thought about it through the lense of a Gilean?’ Silas thought while scratching his chin.
“How about we make a deal…” Life spoke up for the first time in a long time.
“What is it?” Silas thought half his mind concentrating on Life while the other half continued to think about the emotion technique Life used to create her spells.
“And what do you want in exchange…?” Silas smiled before raising on of his fingers and tracing runes in the air, creating a magic circle out of a milky crystal-like energy that pulsed with mana every few seconds.
Life couldn’t help but be distracted by the runes he was creating, narrowing her eyes at it as if it was something she had never seen before.
However, a few second later, she remembered what she was saying and began to speak up again.
“In exchange, I want you to teach me that thing you did. I want you to teach me how to silent cast and control magic to the same extent as you. I don’t understand how you became so good at magic at such a young age. As far as I know, your grandmother is barely an amethyst core, while your mother is healer with average capabilities.”
“If you want to know how I’m capable of this-“
“I don’t!” She cut silas off almost immediately before looking him in the eyes.
“Everyone has their secrets. Even I do… I don’t need to know anything about how you became so good in magic, while you don’t need to know anything about my background. All I want is to learn how you do what you do, and in exchange, you get all the research and information I own on light magic.”
“Is that a deal?” She asked while extending her hand toward Silas…
“Of course… Of course it’s a deal.” Silas smiled as everything began to fall into place…
Just like a puzzle piece.
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