"It's nothing much." Ruben scratched the back of his head in embarrassment. These magic spells were only rank 1 to rank 2 magic spells and Riya had told him that the difference between these two ranks were only in the amount of mana he used.
So if he were to use more mana for the magic spell, the power is the same as rank 2 magic spell and there was no need for him to learn other magic spells.
Considering that Ruben was already busy because of Riya to learn various runes and formation, Riya also didn't want Ruben to learn too many magic spells. At least, he learned three types of dark element magic spells to protect, attack, and to stop the enemies.
This would help him to protect himself.
"Can I ask something?"
"The first sentence of your magic spell…. Why is it devour? Is it because of your characteristic?" Amelia asked curiously.
Their magic spells seemed to be like borrowing the power of nature and the sentences were relatively polite.
They were not as exaggerated as those magic spells of the magicians from the Magic Association but they were different from the poetic like magic spell that Joan learned.
The first sentence seemed to be representing themselves.
Or more like their position in their element.
This made Amelia curious.
"That…" Ruben was stumped and turned to look at Riya. He didn't think too much when he was learning the magic spells and only knew that this was something that Riya asked him to learn.
But if he was asked to analyze the magic spells…
Sorry, he had no such capability.
"The first sentence of a magic spell is usually to state your position. Well, it's not really suitable to say it's position but it's more like your stance in front of your magic element or even your characteristic," Riya explained calmly. "For the dark element, it's usually either the devourer or the destroyer. Of course, you can also use other characteristic when making your own magic spell."
Making their own magic spell?
They all silently shook their heads in their heart. Aside from Samuel who might make his own magic spell in the future to supplement his ability, the others would not even dare to think about this.
After all, making magic spells were actually not so easy.
Except if they wanted to mess around like those magicians from the Magic Association and made the children's version for magic spells, which indeed didn't really need to think too much.
"But it sounds strange," Amelia murmured in a low voice.
Riya chuckled when she heard Amelia's voice. "It's indeed a bit strange, but when you use your magic spells, you're basically imagining yourself as part of your element. Because in order to borrow the power of nature, you need to be part of the nature itself. This is the basis for magic spells.
But most people would not care about it as long as they could use magic and only followed the magic spells routinely. I'm sure that the magic spells used by the magic warriors also has some rules and so on."
While the magic spells used by those magicians from the Magic Association were a bit hard to hear, but Riya could tell that they were still following the rules to a certain degree.
Magic is the power of nature.
It was only borrowed and in order to borrow it, they had to become part of nature.
This was the essence of the magic spell that Riya learned in that world.
"Yes, there are some rules to follow but the details can be changed according to the person themselves," Samuel replied. "There's no fixed rules as magic is also the manifestation of your connection with nature and the way to express it."
The others didn't quite understand about it and looked at Samuel.
"… That's the theory I learned."
To be honest, Samuel himself couldn't say that he completely understood magic. But he knew that the mana that was produced by nature could be used by humans and the way they used it was through magic.
It was just that everyone's affinity is different and there might even be magic outside of the elemental magic.
But Samuel didn't know the details.
After all, he's a magic warrior and the magic he learned was part of the elemental magic.
"Anyway, you only need to know that the first sentence for the magic that we learned had to start this way." Riya shook her head. Even if she explained everything, she doubted that they would be able to understand.
Besides, these theories were useless unless they planned to make their own magic spells.
"And there are some special magic that has longer chants," Riya added. "The chants from those magicians from the Magic Association are long but they can actually be simplified because the use of these words are to arouse the mana fluctuation in our bodies and then used these mana in the form of magic spell.
And the power of the magic spells should have been related to the length of the magic spells. The longer the magic spells, the more powerful it would be because you're basically driving the mana in your body longer for preparation for a powerful magic spell."
Riya's expression changed a bit. "But it seems that these magicians from the Magic Association didn't know that."
This was because Riya had already heard those magicians from the Magic Association's magic spells. The magic spells that they used didn't seem to follow this rule.
Some of them even think that as long as the song and lyric sounded good, they could launch any kind of magic spells…
And Riya felt that the person in charge of the magicians from the Magic Association didn't seem to care and didn't bother to correct their mistakes.
"Will the magic spells that those magicians from the Magic Association used affect the magic?" Amelia asked.