CH447 Retaliation III
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Unlike at the Barnsil Fortress—where he relied on a delayed detonation method to amplify the power of three fireballs—this time, Alex employed a different approach.
Thanks to his improved familiarity with traditional spellcasting, he was able to properly stack the spells, achieving a similar destructive result but in a far more controlled manner.
That said, the results of the attack revealed something important.
The delay method was not completely inferior.
While traditional spell stacking concentrated energy and force into a single, devastating point, it came at the cost of a reduced attack radius. In contrast, the delayed method dispersed mana more broadly, sacrificing peak power in exchange for a wider area of effect.
Still, these observations confirmed that the stacking method was technically more lethal than the delayed method.
