Raze stood there, he spread his arms a bit, and then started explaining. "You see, the concept of spells, I believe, is the trigger needed to make mana and your imagination come into reality.
Wordless casting is different, much different. It's not that it doesn't have a trigger; it does, but the trigger is different and internal," Raze explained, then stretched his hand, and a flame ignited.
"You can do this, right?" he asked. She nodded and stretched out her hand, and a flame lit as well, burning bright.
"How did you do it?" he asked. She opened her mouth to explain, but the words stuck in her throat. She looked at him, confused about what to say.
"I don't know. I've always just been able to do this; it is the basics of magic," she said.
"Yeah, but you do understand that you called it magic, right?" Raze asked.
"Yeah, what about it?" she responded, looking at the flames and wondering what he was driving at. Raze gave a small smile and then walked toward her, his flames still on his palm.
"That in your hand is magic, and that means you are capable of wordless casting," he said.
His words confused and shook her. She looked at the flame, then at him, and then back to the flames. She was indeed casting magic now, and yet she had no need to use a spell.
Why was that? She began thinking, and after a bit, she came up with a solution to it. "The flames here are in their raw state, like lighting a fire on wood, it burns without any issues.
But if you want the flames to rise higher, you need a trigger, like you said. Pouring something flammable on the flames could cause it to increase, and some certain chemicals will change the color and intensity of the flame," she explained.
Raze was straight-up shocked and amazed. She was smart, that was a fact. He knew this, but seeing it up close was a whole different thing.
"You did it, you basically explained the whole concept as to why spells are needed. And since we have that understanding, it will be easy to work on how to cast without spells.
See, the first reason I believe that people need spells to cast is, one, indoctrination. The concept of needing spells to cast has been so heavily drilled into everyone that it's believed as the only truth.
To everyone, it is as true as the sun in the sky and the stars at night, an unshakable concept. Your mind believes that as the truth and will fight against any other concept as a whole.
So for you to cast without spells, one would first need to desensitize themselves to the notion and belief that spells actually need to be in place for magic," he explained, and then raised his flames to her front. They twisted and then turned into a flame arrow, pointing right at her.
Though she had seen this before, she was still stunned when she saw him cast it so fluidly without a spell. Raze looked at the flames for a few seconds, then looked up at her.
"After you have desensitized yourself and are ready to take on the new concept, you can do something else, cast in your mind," he said.
Now, Raze didn't do this; he had never cast a spell in his mind. He just had an understanding of the spell and could easily use it when he needed to.
There were two reasons he didn't tell her this, though. First was that the concept was too out there, and for someone that depended on spells, she would not be able to learn it, he was certain of that.
And for the final reason, he didn't want to give her everything he gained from the library. His knowledge was his edge in this world, and regardless of how close someone was to him, he would keep that edge.
But since he also had to give her a better method than wording the spell, he began to think of a better way, a way that merged what they did and what he did into one to produce something new.
Taking the better and the worse to create a middle, that was the plan. Now, he wasn't certain this way would work, but he had gone over it in his head, and it seemed extremely possible.
The brain was capable of thinking five to ten times faster than a person could speak, and so if she was capable of executing a spell with her brain, she would be that much faster.
But that raised the question as to why nobody had thought of this before. Well, they did, and they failed. From a volume of the story, he understood that casting wordless spells with imagination alone was impossible because people tended not to be able to say the spell in their head before it was distorted by another thought, leading to issues.
Raze found that utterly stupid. They could focus on training everything, but when it came to training their mind to say what they wanted, they couldn't.
But that being said, if what they said was true, that meant the technique he had worked up for her was meant to work as long as she stayed focused.
"So, Ella, what I need you to do is repeatedly say 'Flame Arrow' in your head on repeat, but without feeding the mana.
And when you believe that you are truly capable of saying it easily without issue, try casting it. But I also need you to ensure that you have the proper imagination of what the spell is and what it does, that imagination is key.
Get those two properly, and you'll have the spell without needing to open your mouth even a bit," Raze explained.
She found the concept new and strange, but that was the whole point, something new. So she went ahead with it, closed her eyes, and started.