"Slow down! Focus on sensing the magical energy within your body, then guide it with intense emotions and finally release it."
"No! No! No! Not like that! Your reaction just now was too deliberate. It has to come from the heart."
"Remember, the power and range of Chaos Magic depend on your emotions at the instant of release. The greater your anger, sorrow, and fear, the more powerful its effects will be."
"Wrong! Again!"
Inside Sky City's magic testing grounds, Scarlet Witch Wanda was following Allen's guidance, trying to keep the Chaos Magic—whose effects she did not understand at all—within a certain range.
In Allen's eyes, this uncontrollable magic was somewhat similar to the Wild Mage in Dungeons & Dragons rules.
Unlike traditional mages, who believed they had to firmly "control" the power of every spell, Wild Mages did the opposite. They tried to make every spell they cast "go out of control," creating violent wild surges that made them far more powerful than normal.
For example, when casting a third-circle fireball, a wild magic surge could turn it into a seventh-circle delayed Blast fireball.
In this way, a Wild Mage could use the mana required for a third-circle spell to deal the terrifying damage of a seventh-circle spell.
Of course, the side effect was that once control had been abandoned, no one could know what spell would ultimately be released the instant a wild surge occurred.
If they were unlucky enough, they might even suffer backlash from their own "out-of-control" magic.
Some Wild Mages were swallowed on the spot by uncontrolled flames, explosions, and lightning after casting a spell, not even leaving behind an intact corpse;
Some Wild Mages would discover for no apparent reason that the money or items in their pockets had vanished after casting a