However, after successfully casting Water Ball, Cui Ciyou did not stop there.
The successful spell he had just cast, and the strange experience of bringing his mental power into direct contact with magic power.
Combined with the scattered descriptions of Silent Casting from the original anime that he remembered.
All of it sparked an idea in Cui Ciyou's mind, and he wanted to test his theory.
What... is chanting for?
To concentrate, to guide-or rather, to control magic power and make it communicate with the elements...
But what if my mental power is strong enough, and I understand the composition of water well enough to directly command magic power to communicate with the elements?
Then could chanting, as an "auxiliary tool"... be skipped?!
I know water molecules are made of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, so I can just capture the water molecules in the air.
With that thought, Cui Ciyou concentrated his mental power again, only this time, he did not chant at all.
Cui Ciyou visualized Water Ball-the composition of water-directly in his mind.
Then he used his mental power to directly mobilize the magic power inside Roxy that he was connected to.
Following that idea, he commanded it to capture and gather the water molecules in the air.
Almost the instant he willed it, another basketball-sized ball of water formed out of thin air in front of Cui Ciyou without any warning.
It was faster and smoother than when he had chanted.
And the water ball's stability and the fluctuations of magic power it contained seemed... completely undiminished.
"Go!" Cui Ciyou shot the water ball into the sky again.
"W-was that just... 'Silent Casting'?"
Roxy had yet to fully recover from her first shock.
When she saw this second perfect water ball appear out of nowhere, almost instantaneously,