Chapter 310
"That was a good practice . Is that illusion magic an original work?"
"It is, yes . At first we were using rocks and stuff as targets, but once we started training with discovering targets first . . . I thought that kind of magic would be nice, so I made it . What do you think?"
"Ah . It's pretty good . . . Is there any reason why the illusions are slower than demons though?"
"That one's . . . Because of our lack of expertise . We'd like it to be as fast as the real demons, but it's quite difficult to get right . . . "
Meirad showed me one of the magically augmented lumps of metal .
There are traces of trials and errors from attempts to raise its speed on it .
True, magic that enable high speed long distance, and complex movements are hard .
It's close to the territory of archers' 『Homing Wired Enchant』 even .
Demons aren't as fast as an arrow, so that much precise control is unneeded . . . but the ability to activate augment magic remotely means a pretty complex spell formula .
Not that you can't learn it from the Second Academy textbooks, but you need to be pretty skilled to construct one .
As I was thinking that, Ruli fetched a pen and a piece of paper before drawing a magic circle on it .
"Err . . . How about you do this part, like this? I'm sure it'd at least get as fast as flying demons!"
Ruli presented a revised version of the magic circle augmented on the lump of metal .
The part that governs motion has been rearranged, greatly raising its speed .
That'll afford a speed rivaling that of a demon's flight indeed .
"That's a good formula . . . You'd gain more speed with it yeah . "
"Ah, creating a high speed motion spell formula on the spur of the moment just like that . . . I've heard about how great Ruli-san is from augmenters . . . and it really shows . . . "
"It's Mathi-kun that's amazing! I was taught by Mathi-kun himself, so, you know!"
Ruli puffed out her chest .
. . . Magic circles aren't so simple that you could get to this point just from my teaching though .
Ruli uses any free time she has to think up ways to construct magic circles and carry out experiments .
Her efforts have paid off in the form of her ability to make magic circles like this .
But . . . It might be not be practical to employ this magic circle .
"How long should we maintain this magic circle?"
"Umm . . . Cast time is around 40 seconds at most, so 40 seconds it is!"
"I figured it would take that long . "
You don't have to always beat the demon targets in a practice .
In the battle pattern written on the textbook, what's most important is to create a situation where you restrain the demon flying in the air where you can shoot at it all you want .
Nevertheless, 40 seconds are needed .
Ruli's magic circle consumes a lot of mana in exchange for speed .
It's an inescapable trade off if you want speed with augment magic . . . they'd need some pretty big magic stones to hold 40 seconds with that magic circle .
Even if they've been getting a lot of magic stones from dungeon after power up . . . Obtaining valuable large magic stones for training would be tough .
The magic stones embedded in lumps of metal for the illusion magic are quite big themselves . . . but even then, it would last less than 10 seconds at their size .
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