Chapter 190 - Fireball (2/2)
Evan wasn't too impressed with these fights, though. He was even bored, in his opinion, Freya was much stronger. Except, of course, that she hadn't yet reached the” One-Pointed Star.” Her movements were fast and precise, and her spells suited her fighting style and personality perfectly.
<Well, the lesson should start soon, I need to hurry up> Evan thought and left the arena.
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A few minutes, later he was already in the classroom. Besides Evan, a large number of the other students were interested in this lesson, too. The auditorium was packed, and Evan could hardly find a place to sit down. The subject was of great interest to many students. The teacher was also a very popular man.
Evan did not understand why there were students from other classes and even other ranks, but he decided that it did not matter. The most important thing was the lesson itself, everything else was of secondary importance.
When the auditorium was full of students, it was time for the lesson to begin. A tall man in a gray mantle entered the room. He adjusted his glasses and looked at the packed audience calmly said: ”I see you are interested in the topic of today's lesson, well, then it's time to begin.”
It was Arve, he rarely taught any lessons, but each one was very detailed, thoughtful, and clear.
”Let me tell you right off the bat, spell creation is a very difficult, time-consuming, and little-successful process. It will take most mages several years to figure out the very basics, but that is not the main problem. Suppose you learn to create spells, what do you think is the biggest problem in that case?”
Arve paused for a moment before continuing: ”Even if you create dozens of spells, there's no guarantee that any one of them will be stronger than the already invented and commonly known ones. For example, to create a spell that's better than ”Fire Ball” in every way is already a daunting task, and that's considering it's a zero-level spell.
Everyone listened to him carefully, no one even whispered.
”Genius mages spend years trying to create spells better than those already known to this world. But an incredibly small number of people can create new spells that are better than the others.”
Arve adjusted his glasses and spoke slowly: ”I want to warn each of you. If you are not prepared to spend decades of your life on countless attempts and experiments, you had better not waste your time on it. In this field of activity, you have to go all the way, and only then, perhaps, your wasted time and effort will pay off. Now let's get to the lesson.”
Arve's ”Warp” spun, and a fireball appeared in his hand.
”Let's start with the very first step in spell creation, which is changing the simplest characteristic in any other spell. The easiest thing to change is color, which is where I advise you to start.”
After these words, Arve put his other hand forward, and another fireball appeared in the palm of his hand, only it was white instead of orange.
”Now I'm going to draw two Magical Circles of zero level spell- ”Fire Ball” on the board.. There will be a subtle but significant difference between them, which has changed the color of the fireball, but the other characteristics were not affected.”