2000 Years Of Magic History In My Head-Chapter 60

Episode 60: Reward Beyond Dimensions (2)

Although the magical civilization boasted a 2000+ year history, casting remained an important field that was too vast for any wizard to master in a lifetime. For a wizard to increase their power, the quality of magic is important, but the speed of casting and quantity of magic that can be used at once is a defining point that cannot be emphasized enough. Many techniques have been developed to sustain these efforts. During the birth of magical correlations, superlative magic, and so on, the magical civilization’s wizards came to a firm conclusion.

“The human brain’s capacity for casting is limited to two spells at once. There is a legend that a character – an eighth circle archmage – in the past performed Triple Casting, but it cannot be seen as a human possibility. In reality, double casting is the limit for humans.”

The upper limit had been set. Still, people didn’t give up. If it was impossible with the human brain, you could target other areas to connect to it. Thus, two more casting methods were devised. Auto-casting was the first. In the reinforced civilization, it was a method that utilized mana’s memory – ‘double-casting.’ Due to this, the magical civilization succeeded in popularizing double casting. Even in the early days, magical civilization also had tighter limitations, but the development of auto-casting broke such barriers.

The second method was the multi-casting. Multi-casting was the key. It is the use of multiple magic and is also called engraving magic. As the magic circle’s technology developed, the wizards figured out how to ‘imprint’ the human body’s magic circle. If mana is injected into the magic circle according to the situation’s needs, the magic circle takes over the complex system, and the magic is revealed. Because of this, wizards can use a method called ‘multi-casting’ that uses double casting and engraving magic at the same time, but this method is not without risk.

Multi-casting requires an imprint of the human body. To exert its power, you have to endure the ‘mental shock’ that occurs as the engraved magic is revealed. Originally, the magic circle is not a technique that can be used on the human body. Since it was applied in transformation, ordinary wizards couldn’t withstand the impact of engraved magic. Therefore, conditions were attached. Only fifth circle wizards or higher should use engraved magic. Only at that level could the mental shock be endured. When such conditions arose, the amount of engraved magic that a wizard could handle would become a measure of the magician’s mental power.

Avid, president of the Royal Academy of Magic, had the experience of activating four engraved magic properties simultaneously as the double casting of his seventh circle magic. Usually, one engraved spell is luck, two would amount to genius, and those capable of producing three are called monsters…it could be said that Avid’s mental power has exceeded humanity’s restraints.

Quad casting was a rare stage even in magical civilization. There was certainly no case of quad-casting with pure brainpower; it always required a shortcut like engraving. Thus, there was no word for quad casting in magical civilization.

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