Since then, it's been about two months, nothing really changed around the house, but I have made quite a few discoveries on incantations.
First and most important, I found the answer to how to make my incantations fly forward. I figured it out by mistake, but thinking back, it's actually pretty obvious, how was I so dumb…
Eh— It's fine now, I guess, sometimes it just takes a little time.
So— physical incantations basically work like a gun, the physical form of the incantation is the bullet, but just a bullet won't do anything...
To make the bullet fly forward, there has to be a force behind it. In a gun, it's gunpowder, and in magic, it's mana. Forcing a burst of mana towards the physical form of the incantation allows it to gain momentum and hurl forward. That was really the only logical explanation I could think of. From this, I guess I finally understand why people needed to chant.
Chants create the incantation's physical form without needing the user to focus on the imagery of the incantation, which in turn frees the mind of the mage to do whatever he or she wants to, and in casting an incantation, that would be to give the incantation the momentum to move forward using a burst of raw mana.
With chants, the mage wouldn't have to focus on two things at once, which makes the process much easier, at least that is the theory I came up with.
Maybe no one actually tried using no chants and pushing the incantation at the same time. After all, the textbook never said anything about casting without chants; it's a rare skill to even be able to do it in the first place.
The second thing I discovered from my 'training' sessions was that there's a cap or a limit on the size of an incantation, you can't just infinitely enlarge a fireball to the point where I basically turn it into the sun.
Not that I tried to do that with 'Fireball', I was scared of burning the house down.
I did try it with 'Waterball' though, it stopped growing when it reached the size of a basketball, so I'd say there's probably a limit on the size of a fireball as well.
This can only be done within a certain time frame after casting the incantation; any extra mana applied after would just not affect the incantation at all, so the timing of enlarging the incantation has to be accurate.
Changing the size of the incantation would not affect any other aspect of the incantation; it seems the change of size won't affect things like the acceleration and the weight of the incantation. There wasn't really a trick to how to make the incantation bigger easily, but the timing was important; if the timing was off, it might just waste your mana.
Third, I now understand the importance of an activation, since I started using silently casted incantations, fatigue piles up really quickly due of the need to multitask, mana consumption was also increased when casting silently, it isn't really a problem now just because I don't have to fight anything, but I'm sure that if I was in a life or death situation using a string of chants would be much safer to do.
Fourth and the last thing I found during the two whole months of grinding. Incantations can be easily manipulated, for example, spellstacking, that's one of the skills I learned during this time. It's not really hard to understand, by spellstacking you can create effects which are unable to be produced with one singular incantation, like mist or steam.
There's lots of things on my mind right now. I have been reading through the textbook, hoping to find something related to triple spellstacking.
I could think of so much I could make if I'm able to stack incantations three times, so many unnatural phenomenas, but up till now I have had no luck in finding the method.
I'm fairly certain triple stacking can be done relatively easily if I had the method, but I just can't get a grasp on how to do it.
Well… Even now, lots of things can still be learned.
I'm far from perfect, fundamentals are important. I myself value them a lot. It's like in a video game when you have the best equipment but horrible skills, when you don't even know the controls, that should be a pretty good analogy.
For now, at least, I should just focus on the basics. I need to build up my potential before I start going off into the world of theories and experiments.
I have really only three goals in mind now, perfecting silent casting, maxing out my mana pool, and learning up to calamity-level incantations.
The last one would take some time, so I would start off with it, but first, I need to break through my first barrier, stopping me.
The ascension of elementary class incantations.