Choices and Decisions (4)
“……Reservation?”
Frondier asked back.
It wasn’t that he didn’t understand what it meant. Moreover, considering the meaning of the word and the timing it came out, he could roughly guess what it meant.
Elodie said.
“It’s casting magic beforehand. Until right before activation.”
“……Leaving only a switch, so you can activate it later just by pressing that switch?”
“Yeah, yeah. You catch on quick.”
That was true.
It was a familiar concept to Frondier.
‘Storing magic in advance and using it when you want……. It’s not such a strange concept in other games or novels.’
But he didn’t know it would exist in this world too.
‘Reservation’ wasn’t a characteristic or skill, and no one had mentioned it while playing the game.
‘Well, when I was learning about magic, I didn’t know anything. In the game, magic came out as soon as you pressed it.’
Frondier, who had experienced this world through the game first. He knew the general knowledge of this world and the story up to a certain point better than anyone else, but he didn’t know anything about the process of individuals training and acquiring skills. Because it’s not implemented at all in the game.
Swinging a sword once, hitting an enemy with an arrow, and performing basic magic were all things that were naturally possible in the game, but not here.
“Are there very few people who can do that pre-casting?”
“Rather than very few……”
Elodie raised her finger to explain, then scratched her cheek with that hand.
“I don’t know exactly either.”
“……What?”
“You can’t tell if someone’s pre-casting just by looking at them. I’ve heard that some pure wizards can do it, and among them, those with high skills use it in actual battles. I don't know if they actually use it or not because I can't see it.”
Elodie tilted her head with a hum.
Then, as if she had remembered, she raised her finger again.
“First of all, there’s one person who’s definitely presumed to be doing it.”
“Who?”
“Teacher Jane.”
“……Aha.”
Teacher Jane. She can use one magic per finger. In other words, the number of spells that can be used at one time is ten, and all ten of them can be used for different attributes and purposes.
The speed of magic she unfolds with one finger is slightly slower than Elodie’s, but if the condition is to ‘use ten magics simultaneously,’ there is no one who can catch up with that speed.
“I was wondering how she does such an unreasonable thing, so she was using pre-casting.”
“Right. She has one pre-cast on each finger. I’m sure of it.”
Elodie nodded her head as if convinced of her own thoughts.
Frondier asked.
“Anyone else?”
“The most likely of my friends was Lunia. She’s also a pure wizard, and she was good at utilizing runes. And well, the Headmaster could do it if he wanted to, right?”
“……I know the difficulty is absurd.”
In this world, it seems that ‘pre-casting’ is a tremendously difficult technique, even if it is possible.
"Lunia was greatly amazed by the fact that Basileo could move the formula around and change its shape, yet the formula remained intact. When I thought about it that way, formulas are originally very volatile, just like human thoughts."
In other words, conversely, in the case of Basileo, who uses formulas that do not evaporate easily, it may mean that it is the optimal condition for pre-casting.
‘……Even if it meets the conditions.’
Could Basileo really do that?
‘More than anything else, what can I teach if that happens?’
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