Orvisto Wizard Tower, Spellcasting Training Room.
Roland held a low-grade staff temporarily supplied by the training facility. Using the staff as his brush and magical power as his ink, he began writing in midair.
As fluorescent-looking strokes swept past, lines resembling natural writing lingered in the air, forming the corresponding runes.
These were dynamically shifting forms of Seris runes, communicating with magical power like a magic array.
Mana resonated at once.
The buff from Six Jia Secret Blessing settled over him.
"It worked!"
To practice his newly discovered casting technique, Roland had specifically taken some time off to explore it here.
The results satisfied him. He soon got the hang of it.
I never really expected calligraphy to yield any benefits. I was only laying the groundwork for the later development of traditional Chinese culture.
But unexpectedly, it still paid off.
In this world, knowledge really is power.
Roland stepped off the practice floor and instructed the Fox-Eared Girl, who had accompanied him and waited nearby, "Write this down for me. This casting technique can be improved in the following ways."
"Of course, Master. Go ahead."
The Fox-Eared Girl took a little notebook out of her pocket.
Roland said, "First, conceal the traces of magical power flowing, making the casting more covert and sudden.
"Second, combine incantations and gestures, executing them asynchronously.
"Third, find more and faster ways to channel the spell, rather than restricting ourselves to the forms of the runes themselves."
Of these, Roland placed particular importance on the second point.
Simply put, chanting and calligraphic casting would no longer have to follow the original sequence.
They could be treated as two tasks processed in parallel, without blocking the thread.
Calligraphic casting... or, more precisely, Wild Cursive Casting, could serve as a way to channel spells under specific