The Handsome Are Powerful.
Gauss began by practicing Bigby's Hand.
Legend had it that long ago, there was a powerful mage named Bigby who had mastered all kinds of "magic hand" spells. Bigby's Hand was the signature spell that the mage had named after himself.
In form, it resembled the most basic cantrip, Mage Hand, but the effects were worlds apart.
Mage Hand was merely an ordinary 0th Ring cantrip. Its ability to manipulate weight, movement speed, and reaction time was so limited that it was practically useless in combat. Gauss mostly used it as a way to touch things from a distance, in case they carried an infectious curse.
If Mage Hand was just a light, remote-controlled hand, then Bigby's Hand was the "divine palm" that the powerful mage had created from it specifically for battle.
As long as you had enough magic and enough power, you could slap away not only roadside Kobolds and Goblins, but even dragons.
It was a signature spell of the "if you hit it hard enough, it'll work" school.
Recalling everything he knew about Bigby's Hand, Gauss soon immersed himself in the spell's specific structure.
Since Bigby's Hand had been directly awarded to him by the Adventurer's Handbook, he had skipped the relatively tedious learning process. The complex model, like a supercomputer, was already present in the depths of his consciousness.
As everyone knew, the complexity of a spell model for this wondrous ability called magic increased exponentially with each additional ring.
Compared with a 4th Ring spell, a 5th Ring spell model was like a mountain. In terms of complexity, ten 4th Ring spells might not match a single 5th Ring spell.
That was why, in theory, 9th- or 10th-level Spellcasters could begin learning 5th Ring spells, but in practice, they usually