"Cruel?"
Lu Yi heard the joking note in Zhou Sichen's voice, but shook his head.
"I'm just telling you how to use spells at a more advanced level."
In truth, many Spells were less powerful than Soul Skills. A Spell's power depended on the caster's magical mastery, while a Soul Skill's power depended on a Soul Master's cultivation and the age of the Soul Ring.
But even if an ordinary Soul Master cultivated to Titled Douluo, without a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring or Soul Bone, the number of Soul Skills he could possess was capped at fifteen—even if he absorbed a full set of Soul Bones.
Lu Yi had long since mastered over a hundred Spells. He had learned each one through study, understanding, and practice. That was fundamentally different from acquiring Soul Rings.
Yet whenever Lu Yi opened another book, he still found Spells he had never heard of. For various reasons, people rarely used them anymore.
Though most of the Spells Lu Yi knew were harmless and served narrow purposes, roughly a third were useful in combat. That came to nearly forty.
They offered different ways to control, injure, defend against, or weaken a target.
If unexpected Spells like Blinding Flash counted as well, the number useful in combat rose to well over half.
Comparing a Spell's raw power with that of a Soul Skill was unfair to begin with. The true strength of Spells lay in their versatility and the ways they could be combined.
From his observations, Lu Yi had worked out how the panel graded the different branches of magic.
Charms was judged by the number of Spells mastered, along with the efficiency and success rate of casting them.
Defense Against the Dark Arts placed greater weight on applying Spells in combat, reacting on