In addition to the need to prepare gems, crystals, wands and other items as a medium of magic, it is also necessary to prepare different spell casting materials according to different spells, arrange specific rituals, recite a long list of difficult and deep spells, do all kinds of gestures and body movements like a dancing god, and under the correct guidance of spiritual power, in order to truly cast a magic.

The reason for this trouble is that pure spiritual power lacks the power to interfere with reality, and it lacks the power to directly manifest the magical structure of meditation in reality. Spiritual power can only be used as a link in the whole magic ritual, an initial pusher, and cannot be used as a material for magic, as a structure for shaping, and even as a driving force for operation.

Magical mediums, spell-casting materials, rituals, incantations, gestures, and stages are symbolic in their own right, and it is only under certain rituals that a completed magical structure can be constructed, guiding the mystical power of the psychic power to drive the naming and complete a spell with extraordinary effects.

This method of spell casting is very cumbersome, and it is also very inefficient, and it lacks the value of actual combat, in the early days of the wizarding era, in the early days of human civilization when the systematic school of magic was not born, the wizards in ignorance began to use this method of spell casting through experience and exploration.

Spirits give meaning, materials build structures, rituals channel power, chanting brings resonance, and spells unleash spells. This whole set of cumbersome spell-casting processes has dominated the casters of the human world for countless years, and even to this day, it still affects countless mages.

Before refining and transforming spiritual power into real magic power, even today's magic apprentices can only obediently cast spells in this ancient way.

Carl understands this. After all, spiritual power is not a mysterious power with universal attributes such as magic power, but only an extension of personal limbs, although it brings people a broader way of observation and more convenient means of driving materials, but if you want to achieve a certain goal, it is essentially the same as using both eyes and hands, just the third hand and the third eye of a person, but it is more delicate and convenient.

The Elemental School is one of the earliest classical schools of magic, with many remnants of early magic left behind.

For example, in its philosophy of magic, although it believes that the world is composed of four basic elements, it instinctively remnants the animistic thinking of early wizards, believing that magical elements also have their own consciousness and preferences. Therefore, when meditating and casting spells, more emphasis is placed on the resonance of the elements rather than naked domination.

The Elemental School usually requires a large chant process, which is different from the short and powerful command "incantation" of the Spell School, different from the vague whispers of the Astrology School like a dream, and even different from the Spiritist School's exalted and high-pitched chanting as if reciting a hymn.

The chanting of the Elemental School is truly like a bard singing, with a clear melody in tone and frustration. This is not a deliberate attempt by the mages of the Elemental School, but in the resonance with the elements, they unconsciously bring the melody of dancing with the magical element.

In this case, it is like the consciousness of a mage of the astrological school who melts into the stars, and involuntarily under the influence of the will of the stars, becomes as crazy as a prophet, and the incantations he recites become as vague as a dream.

Similarly, the school of spells has studied runes and spells for a long time, and has a deep understanding of the power of language, so when reciting spells, they unconsciously bring concise commands in the form of commands, and this kind of short and powerful spells has even been specially studied by mages, giving birth to a unique "law system" spell system.

Naturally, the séance, which believes that all things have animism and that all things originate from some great root, inevitably adds subjective will and emotions to the chanting, and each spell is full of emotions and high-pitched passion.

It can be said that although they perform the same magic, chant the same spells, and perform the same magic rituals, because of the fundamental differences in the philosophical concepts of magic in schools, and the different interpretations of the essence of the mysterious power of magic, there are still huge differences in the casting styles of different schools.

Of course, this difference is also reflected in the fields they are good at, for example, the elemental school is better at shaping and controlling energy, destroying and destroying matter, the astrological school is better at divination and prediction of fate, and the control of force fields and space, and the spell school is better at controlling runes and spells, and weaving phenomena and laws. The séance school is better at the analysis of the soul and the self, the exploration of roots and origins.

A large part of the magic that little Lucy has acquired in the Elemental School of Magic that can be used during the apprenticeship stage is explosive spells that use the elements to destroy.

For example, a spell "Gem Bomb" that little Lucy still remembers after waking up tells how to use spiritual power to guide magical elements into gems and store them with the assistance of magic rituals, and then use mental power to stimulate the unstable elements stored in gems when needed, causing an explosion to damage the enemy.

This spell is simple and practical, and can be used by any magic apprentice of the Elemental School, and it can even be said to be a required spell for all mages of the Elemental School, because injecting elements into gems for storage is the basic precondition for many Elemental School spells, and it is a must-learn content.

And the power of this spell is not fixed, but with the strength and quality of the elements and magic injected by the mage, ordinary magic apprentices to use, may not be as good as a grenade, but a legendary mage injected with a gem of magic power, but it is possible to directly collapse a section of the city wall.

"Oh my God, it's too extravagant and wasteful to use gems as spellcasting materials!"

When she learned that many of the spells of the Elemental School used gems as a medium and material for spellcasting, little Lucy couldn't help but frown in distress.

Natural gemstones, in any world, are precious luxuries, and the price of a gemstone, even if it is cheap, is worth several gold tales.

Little Lucy, don't talk about Ginthaler, she hasn't even seen Silver Lake a few times, and the largest denomination of currency she usually touches is just a silver horn mixed with a little silver. Using gems as spellcasting materials, not to mention that she can't afford to use them, even if she sells them, she can't afford to buy a few.

"The Elemental School is too expensive, is there a more cost-effective magic school?" Little Lucy, who has been in a state of poverty, was really frightened by the Elemental School's mode of burning money and casting spells, and couldn't help but wonder if it would be a different magic school.

"Yes, the Astrological School!"

Karl replied with a smile: "The magic apprentice of the astrological school only needs a crystal ball, and when you cast a spell, you can burn some crystal shards!"

“......”

Little Lucy couldn't help but be even more speechless, although the price of crystals is cheaper than gemstones, but it is not something that ordinary people can afford, and crystals of good quality can be comparable to gems at a price. When she was working as a domestic servant, she had seen a polished crystal ball in her master's house, which was said to be worth 50 gold tales, which was enough to buy several young and beautiful girls like her on the black market.