Word magic.
There was a preconception that it was an incredible power, closer to a miracle than magic, where words would beco reality, but…
In reality, it wasn’t that impressive.
It was certainly remarkable that it could cause desired phenona without separate formulas or incantations, even if it wasn’t a standardized spell.
But nothing in the world ca for free.
It might be easier to understand if you think of it as an extre enhancent of imagination and mana, which were the basic elents of magic.
It was an extrely inefficient form of magic that required an obscene amount of mana, a clear image, and strong will. That was word magic.
Of course, there were advantages beyond that, which was why Iris was gaping in shock.
“W-word magic!”
“Yes, word magic.”
“Word magic, which even archmages find difficult to use unless they’ve gained a special enlightennt or specialized in it…!”
“Right. That word magic.”
“You realized this while getting an erection!”
“……”
Bonk!
“Master hit again…!”
“Yep. It doesn’t work anymore~”
“Tsk.”
Ignoring Iris’s grumbling, I internally sorted out what I knew about word magic, now that I’d experienced it firsthand.
Word magic was definitely not omnipotent. But it did have clear advantages, as evident by Iris’s surprise.
Firstly, the obvious advantage was its fast activation speed. However, more importantly, it allowed you to directly induce the desired phenonon.
You could force sothing that was difficult with conventional magic by bending the rules a little.
In other words, mastering word magic could allow you to surpass the limitations of other spells by integrating it with them.
The details need to be practiced, but that was how I understood it.
In H&A, you could master word magic by taking a special route.
While I was nodding to myself, Iona, who was equally astonished, suddenly rembered sothing and blinked her blood-red eyes.
“Hey, hey. Word magic was originally developed to mimic dragon language, right? Realizing word magic is a huge deal for humans, but… isn’t it a bit ambiguous for dragons?” ṙÂΝꝋВÈ𝘚
“If you put it that way, there’s nothing I can say.”
The limitation of word magic was that it required a trendous amount of willpower and mana.
Therefore, there was a limit to the scale of magic that could be perford with word magic alone. That was why it was mixed with other magic.
But dragon language, or Draconic, was different.
It was the most perfect form of word magic, an ability equivalent to great magic, with the power to turn the impossible into possible, akin to a god’s miracle.
That was Draconic.
I knew nothing about the future, but at least for now, it was an unreachable realm, even if I died and ca back to life.
“Even if I were to use it in my dragon form, it would be the sa, I think?”
“Based on what?”
“Just a hunch. It feels that way.”
“Well, well. Dragons can only use Draconic after reaching the realm of archmages, so it’s too early for Yandel.”
“…It feels like you think I’ll be able to use Draconic once enough ti passes.”
“What, what? Wasn’t that the case? Yandel is like a dragon in human form, after all.”
“Hm. Let’s make this clear, I am human. I was created using dragon materials, but that’s all.”
These were distinctly different. If I were truly a dragon, I wouldn’t need to transform into one.
Though it was true that dragon genes were part of this body, so it wasn’t entirely impossible…
“It doesn’t an it’s guaranteed to happen.”
“Too bad, too bad. I thought I might be able to study Draconic.”
Iona openly showed her disappointnt, smacking her lips. anwhile, Iris seed to have thought of sothing and gasped.
“Heup! Master!”
“Huh? What’s up now?”
“Even if not as much as Draconic, can’t you transcend so aspects of conventional magic with just word magic?”
“If I really push it, sure.”
For example, even if I couldn’t cast 100 spells simultaneously, with word magic, I could copy one spell into 100 instances.
Of course, I’d have to deal with the corresponding mana consumption, so not all spells could be copied; perhaps only basic to lower-level spells.
…Incidentally, if it were Draconic, I could cast 100 different spells at once, with much less mana consumption.
However, for Iris, the fact that it was possible at all seed to matter, as excitent began to show on her youthful face.
“Then, perhaps with word magic, could you combine different elents into one? Since you’ve learned elental combination, it might be possible…”
“Well, honestly, I can’t even imagine what combining elents looks like, and I don’t understand it theoretically, so I’m not confident. Above all, I’m not yet used to word magic.”
“I see…”
“…I’ll give it a try, though.”
Seeing Iris looking so openly downcast, I added that and then extended the index fingers of both hands.
Whoosh.
Blop.
A small fla like a matchstick appeared in my left hand, and a water droplet the size of an eye in my right.
Although it was simultaneous casting, there was no need for incantations or trigger words for basic spells like Tinder and Water.
Thanks to becoming a higher mage, unrelated to word magic, casting spells had definitely beco easier compared to before.
With a bit of pride, I stared at the two basic spells.
Fire and water. Now I had to combine these two. How?
Elental combination could mimic sothing similar, but what Iris wanted wasn’t that kind of synthesis.
It wasn’t just about making fire and water not repel each other. Nor was it about creating a state where they were both fire and water mixed together.
What I aid for was sothing before they were divided, a regression to sothing that could beco either fire or water.
Of course, this was physically impossible. Fire, after all, was not even a substance but pure energy.
To revert to the ti before fire and water split, one might need to wind back the clock to before the Big Bang.
However, when viewed from the perspective of magical theory, the story changed a bit.
In magic, elents were described as the fundantal components of the world. Thus, an elent did not refer to a specific phenonon or substance.
It was sothing more conceptual.
For example, fire. The elent of fire didn’t just refer to the phenonon of fire. It encompassed brightness and warmth, but also sotis the fear of destruction.
It ant the collective thoughts people associate with fire.
Then, what about water?
The elent of water was more static in imagery. Cold, quiet, the source of life, yet sotis taking many lives away.
Though it seed opposite to fire in many ways, they shared a commonality in so aspects.
So, what was there before fire and water were separated?
Sothing hot yet cold, dazzling yet quiet—sothing that brings destruction when aid at humans.
I summoned my will towards this forced image.
The mana that naturally welled up tingled at the tip of my tongue. I put strength into the words that had risen to my throat.
“『rge and return.』“
My fingers touched. The tiny fla and droplet of water resting at the tips could only embrace each other deeply.
Flash!
Fire and water, fiercely fluctuating yet accepting each other.
Could it have… worked?
With a pounding heart, I waited for them to beco one completely.
However, what returned was only a trendous explosion.
BOOM!
The reaction was so strong that it was hard to believe it was from just the tips of my fingers where basic spells had t.
Fortunately, Iris and Iona, who were closely observing, quickly cast shields, so there was no real problem.
Though it went out of control, since it was my magic, my fingers were fine.
The issue was Iris, who had been full of expectations. I scratched the back of my head awkwardly and turned away.
Maybe it exploded because I wasn’t adept at word magic, or because my understanding of elents was lacking, or because our paths were different.
I was about to reassure her that my failure didn’t an it was impossible, but…
“Hm? Hmm…”
Sohow, Iris’s expression looked quite serious. Like soone who had glimpsed a faint but clear path.
Could she have figured sothing out from that explosion?
“Iris? Should I show you again?”
“Ah, no need. I saw what I needed to see. From here on, it’s my job, so don’t worry. And thank you, Master. I gained sothing thanks to you.”
“If that’s the case, I’m glad.”
I ruffled Iris’s hair in a comforting way and stood up to look around.
Everyone seed to want to see more of the word magic, even if they didn’t say it like Iris did. Well, it couldn’t be helped.
With a grin, I nodded toward the door with my thumb and said,
“I’m going to practice this and that behind the dorm now; anyone wants to join?”
Not a single person shook their head.
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