Infinity Is My Affinity?!?-Chapter 110: No Longer Just Multicasting

-THUD!

-THUD!

-THUD!

A heavy, rhythmic pounding aggressively shook the far end of the moss-lit chamber, sending vibrations right through the ground and up into the soles of my boots.

I didn’t even flinch. I just kept my eyes locked on the massive archway across the cavern, and the roots of pale wood that barricaded it.

The tsunami of goblins I had kited earlier was still on the other side, relentlessly slamming themselves against the barricade, desperately trying to break through the seal to join a boss fight that was already over.

-Screech-!

The chaotic shrieks that permeated through the roots clashed with the quiet, clinical presence of the System, waiting for my explanation.

"Look," I started, exhaling slowly while forcing my tone to remain completely level. "My current capacity is 60 MP. And I can only juggle three magic streams at once. That’s the physiological limit."

The silence that answered me in the damp cavern air felt remarkably like an unimpressed adult watching a child explain how he can actually fly, but just can’t show it to anyone.

I knew exactly why the System was throwing a digital fit. I had just survived a catastrophic biological meltdown.

So, throwing my only stat point into a stat into the very cause of the said meltdown instead of reinforcing the body was absolute suicide on paper.

Emphasis on ’paper’.

And I wasn’t looking at the paper.

"I’ve got Ice Reinforcement, Ice Pebbles, Dominium Radicis, Domain, Precognition, and Temporal Step," I listed off, counting the spells out on my fingers. "That’s six spells I need access to in real combat."

-Ding!

{And?}

"And with 65 MP... I don’t really need to juggle all six." I rolled my shoulders once, feeling the heavy joints pop in satisfying succession as the last of the stiffness finally faded away.

I began pacing around the carven, casually touching Pookie’s half-pulverized body before adding it to the inventory, all the while mentally simulating the new loops.

"With 65, I can permanently run three background streams. Two-second Precognition at 2 MP/s, a 1 MP/s Domain, and a 2 MP/s cognitive boost via Ice Reinforcement. That’s 5 MP/s constantly circulating. Locked and steady."

Drawing a slow breath, I closed my eyes, visualizing how it would actually work.

"As you’ve said, Spell-Splicing isn’t capped by how much mana my body can circulate at once. It’s capped by how fast my body can conduct it."

I held up three fingers.

"That’s why I can only actively switch between three streams at once. Not because my mind can’t track more... but because my body can’t conduct or, say, reroute the mana fast enough."

With an eyebrow raised, I added, "But if a stream isn’t switching between spells... it doesn’t compete."

I resumed my slow pacing across the cavern, keeping my steps calm against the frantic, chaotic banging of the goblin horde still trying to break down my door.

-Snap-!

A sharp crack echoed through the room as one of the roots on the barricade finally splintered under the sheer weight of the bodies pressing against it.

I didn’t even look over. I just casually pushed mana through my active Domain, seamlessly reinforcing the barricade.

"If I keep Precognition at 2 MP/s, Domain at 1 MP/s, and a 2 MP/s cognitive boost from Ice Reinforcement running continuously... that’s not splicing," I continued, pulling my focus right back to the lecture. "That’s a steady flow."

"Like a fiber optic cable dedicating a fixed bandwidth to background data." I snapped my fingers while a slow grin crept across my face. "That leaves the remaining 60 MP free for actual splicing. And that is what matters."

I let the math hang in the air for a second to ensure the System was tracking the logic.

"60 MP/s lets me run a perfect Ice Reinforcement. 60 MP also casts Temporal Step... Both of my most important spells are tuned to that exact number. Not to mention 50 MP/s for Eyes of Relevance. And there’s more..."

I held up a single finger, pointing it straight at the straining root barricade across the room.

"Once I’ve deployed Dominium Radicis, root manipulation only requires them to stay within my Domain. Roots don’t demand a constant stream of mana to be manipulated once they’re set. That means battlefield control becomes passive."

I lowered the finger.

"So once set, they don’t need to be spliced unless I am actively reinforcing them or making new ones."

I raised a second finger.

"Ice Pebbles are fast. Even instinctive when paired with Reinforcement. I can run a 50 MP/s Reinforcement and cast two streams of Pebbles inside the remaining ten. Now that’s two steady streams of mana that I can splice between Temporal Step."

I raised a third finger to complete the holy trinity.

"Or I drop to 40 MP/s Reinforcement, charge the shotgun with 20 MP/s, and splice between Temporal Step."

I inhaled slowly, letting the sheer tactical advantage of the new architecture hang in the air before dropping the best part.

"All while keeping Precognition, Domain, and a small cognition boost running in the background in a constant stream of 5 MP/s."

The logic stacked cleanly in my head like perfectly aligned gears. Every single mechanical limit the System had established was respected. Every bottleneck was accounted for. It was a flawless workaround to a biological problem.

"Right now, at exactly 60 MP, I have to cut everything to teleport.... Sacrifice some active magic, basically.... but with 65? I don’t need to~"

I could practically feel the System’s gears turning. Deciding on one last strike while the iron was still hot, I added...

"Adding this one stat point into MP changes the architecture... changes how I approach Spell-splicing..."

I clenched my raised hand into a tight fist, fully acknowledging the physical cost of the equation. I remembered those phantom centipedes. I remembered the sensation of cellular degradation under the raw friction of the magic.

"Yes. It will accelerate Mage’s Folly." I admitted, letting the reality of it all sit in the air for a beat.

But then again...

"The reward justifies the risk."

-Ding!

{This is no longer just Multicasting...}

"Don’t remember ever calling it that~" I grinned, dropping my hands back to my sides with a satisfied shrug, "Now... add that stat point to MP... and let’s move on."