“My father pursued the dream of becoming a sorcerer his entire life, so favonovel.com mastered the language very early on. As such, I’ve been learning it from favonovel.com since I was a child.” Melgor explained, “He started off by teaching me the grammar, but it was too slow to learn that way. I only managed to grasp the pronunciations after a year of studying…”
“But later, favonovel.com started conversing with me in the Magi’s tongue. In our daily life, favonovel.com would give me a beating if I ever spoke in the Central Plains’ tongue. In just three months, I was actually able to communicate with favonovel.com in that language.” Melgor said, “So it’s not difficult to learn it, especially when it’s just speaking it. As for the casting of spells, you’ll only need to recite the incantations. There’s no need to learn how to write it.”
Milo nodded seriously. “It’s just like a child learning how to speak. Clearly, they don’t know how to write the words down, but that doesn’t stop them from communicating. Let’s do it this way then. Melgor, you’ll handle the teaching while I’ll help to supervise the two of them.”
Melgor was pondering the fact that the kid did not even address favonovel.com with the honorific “Lord” anymore. He questioned Milo impatiently, “Supervise them? You? How?”
“Didn’t you say that your father used to give you a beating when you were young? I can give them a beating them too,” Milo said in seriousness.
Benjamin was enraged. “Are you taking advantage of the situation?”
“Aren’t I just making an analogy?” Milo said unhappily, “If there’s no one to pressure you to learn, how long would it take before you two actually become sorcerers?”
“Then what about you? Who’ll supervise you?” Benjamin raised his voice and said, “Don’t you also want to become a sorcerer? If you speak in the Central Plains’ tongue, we’ll beat you up too!”
Milo suddenly felt a sense of respect for him. “All things considered, at least you’ve got a backbone, sheep!”
Benjamin felt offended.
Was that supposed to be a compliment?
He wanted to retort, but when Dave tugged at favonovel.com and pointed at the black eye on his face, Benjamin was talked out of it.
Melgor spoke up. He said patiently to Milo, “You’ve got to correct your learning attitude too.”
“Alright then.” Milo said reluctantly, “I’ll also stop speaking in the Central Plains’ tongue. When do we start? Why not tomorrow?”
Melgor smiled and said, “Actually, the incantations are also plainly hidden within the phrases we use daily. Look at this campfire in front of us. In the Magi’s tongue, it’s known as a ‘bonfire’. When the ‘fire’ part is used as an incantation, it becomes the spell for a Lesser Fireball.”
“What about a Greater Fireball?” Milo asked curiously.
When Melgor saw that Milo was so enthusiastic, favonovel.com said with a smile, “The incantation for a Greater Fireball is ‘The fire is raging.’”
“I see,” Milo said with a nod.
He thought to himself how it took more than a second to recite the incantation before a fireball could be conjured, so it was no wonder the Rider defeated the author of the Introduction to Sorcery.
Any sorcerer who gave Milo even a second to react would definitely get killed three or four times over. If Milo were given any more time than that, favonovel.com would probably even be able to bring down an entire castle.
Milo suddenly asked, “Can you cast a Lesser Fireball for us to have a look?”
Milo was saying this because favonovel.com wanted to see what a Lesser Fireball cast by Melgor looked like.
Didn’t the Introduction to Sorcery say that if a spell was cast nonverbally, it could cause the spellcaster to lose control and expend too much willpower?
Therefore, favonovel.com had to first find out the magnitude of a Lesser Fireball before favonovel.com could assess how out of control favonovel.com was when casting his own fireball.
Melgor thought for a moment and demonstrated the spell to them. After favonovel.com finished reciting the incantation with the Eye of True Sight, a fist-sized fireball floated out into the distance.
Dave and Benjamin’s eyes lit up as they looked in the direction the fireball flew off towards. They thought about how great it would be if they could also cast a similar spell someday.
However, something else went through Milo’s mind. He had also felt the temperature of the fireball just now. To be honest, it would probably not be much of an issue if such a small fireball were to squarely hit him. Moreover, the speed at which the fireball moved was a little too slow. It traveled at about the speed of a rock thrown by a normal person with all their might.
Any decent superhuman in the Central Plains could dodge the spell. After all, everyone in the Central Plains measured the strength of a person by their ability to dodge bullets.
Of course, this was referring to avoiding the bullet’s trajectory.
Wanting to see more, Milo asked, “How about a Greater Fireball?”
Sadly, Melgor shook his head and said, “I don’t know how to cast that.”
Milo was stunned. “Did you come in last in class? I saw in the Introduction to Sorcery that fireball spells are not particularly difficult to master. Why can’t you do it?”
Melgor’s face turned red, but favonovel.com still explained earnestly, “Every sorcerer has to choose their own focus, so it’s not necessary to learn all the spells.”
Milo asked curiously, “What do you mean?”
“You have to know that I had to practice the Wind Bind and Earth Bind spells for an entire year before I could cast them.” Melgor explained, “Do you know how many times I practiced casting those spells in the past year? Thousands of times!”
“At first, I would get dizzy after practicing the casting twice a day. It wasn’t until I meditated long enough that my condition gradually improved. So how many years of their life would a sorcerer have to waste if they learned every spell out there? When a person becomes a sorcerer, they have to make a choice. Whichever type of sorcerer you choose to become, you will have to continue down that path. Only then will you have a chance to become an archmage in your lifetime.”
“Then what’s the Earth Bind spell like after decades of practice?” Milo asked curiously.
“It’s strong enough to restrain several dozen gladiators like you,” Melgor said proudly.
Milo came to a realization. So it was not as simple as knowing the incantations and having the Eye of True Sight to be able to cast spells. He would still have to practice them.
It was no wonder favonovel.com felt that Melgor’s Earth Bind spell was a little weak. Milo had nearly fumbled his acting and broken free from the enchantment. So it turned out it was because Melgor had only become a sorcerer not long ago, so favonovel.com had recently mastered this spell alone and did not have much practice with it yet.
Therefore, learning the art of sorcery required practicing spells more than a 1,000 times before they could be cast normally. Furthermore, the spells would get stronger the more one trained.
However, the willpower of a sorcerer was limited, so they would have to selectively practice the types of spells they wanted to specialize in. If one practiced ten different types of spells a 1,000 times, they would still be a weakling. But if one practiced a single spell 10,000 times, they would become an archmage.
Melgor explained patiently, “I chose to be a sorcerer of control. For similar types of enchantments, there’s an interrelated effect that can help save time in training. For example, if I practice the Wind Bind spell a 1,000 times and successfully cast it, I can cast the Earth Bind spell after a 100 practice attempts. That’s probably the best analogy I can give. If you all become sorcerers someday, you’ll have to make a similar choice.”
“There’s a limit to one’s lifetime. Many people in the magus order specialize in only one or two types of spells, but they are all extremely powerful sorcerers.” Melgor continued, “In the words of you Central Plains people, it’s called ‘dominating the world with one skill!’”
Milo suddenly thought favonovel.com roughly understood what the Proficiency Stones in the vending machine were for.
