"Teacher, what spell was that?" Carpenter searched through all her memories and still could not identify it.
Although she had not yet reached the level where she could begin studying high-level spells, Mages might not learn the principles behind every spell, but they had to memorize how those spells appeared.
Of course, that was Hill's teaching method. Carpenter was not sure whether others learned things that way first.
But their teacher required them to identify a spell's nature and the circle needed to cast it the moment they saw its magical glow... If they judged a Mage's spell strength solely by the pressure of the mana they displayed, then they would die without even understanding why.
Hill had always required Carpenter and Russell to remain calm when facing enemies they could not defeat, observe the spells their opponents were trying to cast, prepare countermeasures accordingly, and find that tiny opening amid powerful attacks to escape in time.
Before they became Official Mages, the first thing the two children learned was how to flee a battlefield quickly without attracting their opponent's attention.
After all, when the gap in strength was so great that even running for their lives had to be done cautiously, enemies usually would not have little Mages like them as their main targets.
So what they should consider was not how to profit from the chaos, but how to escape as quickly as possible.
Whatever Russell thought, Carpenter wholeheartedly agreed with her teacher's philosophy.
Carpenter could recite backward the book of spell-image diagrams Hilbert had given them.
But she had never seen the spell before her in that book.
"Hmm..." Hilbert naturally understood why Carpenter had not seen it. "The book I gave you only contains spells that have appeared in this world.
"This is a divine spell