Was this... a spell I hadn't mastered? It was the first time he had encountered such a situation. Rorschach was surprised, yet secretly delighted. Could he become Kakasha through the panel?
No, things wouldn't be that easy. Rorschach quickly calmed down. First, he used "Mana Control" to carefully sense Ina's casting process. In other words, he had grasped the first two steps of the Stone Shaping Technique himself.
The panel's convenience lay in summarizing those two casting steps. Only after revealing the remaining two steps would the spell be complete.
"So I just need to imbue the earth and stone with aether?"
"Of course not. Mage Rorschach, you should know that simply injecting aether will make most physical substances glow, give off heat, and so on. We need to combine the aether with earth elements."
The panel did not react. That sentence just now must have described the "enchantment" process. Rorschach continued probing. "Then I can manipulate it according to my will?"
"If only it were that simple... Rorschach, are you my student? Why do I feel like I'm teaching a class?" Though she said that, Ina continued explaining as she cast.
"To make earth elements active and malleable, you need to imagine them briefly gaining the driving force of life through aether, then convey your vivid mental image to them."
As she spoke, another earthen dwelling gradually took shape. In Rorschach's eyes, the entries marked with question marks on the panel slowly emerged:
Stone Shaping Technique (White) "Mana Control (Orange)" "Enchantment (Blue)" "Material Activation (White)" "Projection (White)"
The spell had been successfully unlocked on the panel, but based on experience, White proficiency could not guarantee successful casting. By the academy's and Magic Tower's standards, it did not count as having learned it.
Even so, Rorschach had at least gained