Casting A Spell For The First Time.

[Ace POV],

"Why would you think that all it took to cast a spell was to say a few words and circulate the mana in your body? What happened to the incantation?" Emma asked in quick succession as the image of my female teachers flashed through my mind.

"Wasn't it the words I said that were the incantations? Isn't that what you do?" I inquired as Emma did another face palm and spoke.

"I'm different, or rather, my method is different," Emma said, adding, "Do you even know anything about spells?" Emma inquired, and I responded honestly by shaking my head and saying no.

The basic alchemy knowledge in my head had a lot of information, not just general information, but information from a variety of areas such as potion making, magic arrays, inscriptions, rune, formations, blacksmithing, pills, items, techniques, and so on, but there was nothing like spells.

Perhaps there is a part of Alchemy where spells are involved, but they are not part of the basic knowledge.

Alchemy, according to what I knew and how I understood it, was more about creation. Alchemy gave me the impression that it could create life itself, but even if this were true, the method was not listed in my basic alchemy knowledge, and it was clear that I was still very far from what alchemy could truly offer.

Perhaps this is why spells were not mentioned in the basic alchemy knowledge because they were too advanced.

It was also due to my lack of knowledge about spells that I considered purchasing the basic support magic along with the basic circulation technique when I had the necessary coins, but that was no longer necessary, which still doesn't change the fact that I had no real knowledge about spells.

I knew they were related to magic and mana, obviously, and that they were related to incantation, but that was pretty much it because if this wasn't the case, I wouldn't have bothered with trying to replicate Emma's actions and I couldn't deny the fact that I could have brought knowledge from the store to help me but even if I wanted to, I couldn't because the only time I started to really gain coins was when Emma provided healing service to those who needed it in the challenge trial grounds.

And since then, I hadn't had a single sufficient rest that could be called a rest to consider buying spells from the store, but the idea must have slipped my mind since the magic attacks I'd been creating before by circulating my mana had still helped me in what I wanted to do and in my quest.

But the fact remained that I had no real knowledge of spells.

Emma spoke again after she received my response, and I was thinking about these things in my head.

"No wonder," she said, adding, "but it doesn't really matter because casting spells isn't that difficult if you do things right."

Emma looked around after saying this, and when she saw me nodding, she continued.

"Spells require us to chant an incantation to cast it and cause it to manifest, and there are three types of chant," she stated, pausing before continuing.historical

"The first of the three types of chants is the normal one, in which we simply say the incantations in the correct order, tone, and timing to cast a spell.

The second method is a quick chant. This is an additional method for casting spells that is directly above the usual approach. All we needed to do was shorten the entire incantations into a relatively simple one to cast a spell with a quick chant.

The third method is chantless chanting. It may sound strange, but it is exactly what it says. This method does not require incantation to cast a spell; all that was required was to think of the spell and it would manifest." Emma paused after saying all of this before asking a question.

"Did you understand everything I said, and how you went about casting a spell in the wrong way?" Emma inquired as I responded with a nod.

"I understand, and if I'm not mistaken, what I was doing when I was trying to cast a spell was me attempting to use quick chant without even knowing the first method," I said, and Emma nodded before speaking.

"That's correct because what you were attempting to do was cast a spell with a quick chant like I do, which is nearly impossible to do because you don't even know the incantations," Emma said as I nodded in response without saying anything as a few thoughts flashed through my mind.

For one thing, I had already realized what I was doing incorrectly. With Emma's explanation, I knew it was impossible for a spell to have ever manifested in the first place, and if one did manifest, it was strange in and of itself.

The methods for casting spells were similar to how many things work.

For one thing, if there was a process similar to the three methods of casting a spell, it would be impossible in most cases to skip straight to the second method without first going through the first.

That was a stupid thing for me to try to do. But, since Emma said casting a spell is simple, it should be, right?

For some reason, I didn't believe this thought of mine was true.

Emma was most likely calling it easy based on her standards, and I was correct because when Emma finally suggested casting a spell correctly, I had a renewed recognition for Emma being a monster.

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