Learning magic was an incredibly tedious affair.
For Shien, even more so.
Even without needing to consider how to allocate Skill Points or how to train his magic, Shien still had to memorize every single magic incantation and commit them firmly to memory.
If he did not remember the incantations, then even with a max-level Chanting skill that allowed him to forgo chanting, he still would not be able to cast magic.
Whether it was an incantation for shortening chants or one for skipping them entirely, the prerequisite was always memorizing the incantation for the magic he intended to use.
That was the fundamental requirement.
Thus, for Shien, who had already maxed out all the skills he needed, all that remained was the dull drudgery of rote memorization.
So, in the days that followed, Shien kept going to the Magic Library beneath the royal palace, clutching spellbooks on Celestial Magic and Enchantment Magic as he desperately memorized them.
There were no shortcuts to this step. He could only take it one step at a time.
Shien could only become a miserable bookworm, studying bitterly in the library every day. After several days, the tedium had become almost unbearable.
Especially when he was memorizing Enchantment Magic incantations. That was truly grueling work.
Celestial Magic was still manageable. As an extremely rare form of ancient magic, it did not have thousands upon thousands of variations like elemental magic such as fire magic. There were still quite a few spells, but Shien could at least see the possibility of memorizing them all.
But Enchantment Magic was another matter entirely.
Every property that could be bestowed upon an object counted as a separate spell.
Bestowing the property of "sharpness" counted as one spell.
Bestowing the property of "hardening" counted as one spell.
Bestowing the