He had already memorized half of it, but not by intention—just by trying to figure out what the effect would be. It was a habit of his whenever he saw a new spell: trying to decipher it before it activated.
The runic circles were completed; in a second, over 20 giant, thick, interlinked chains started coming out of the runic circles. They were visible to everyone—bright sky blue with white ones mixed in. Each link of the chain was around the size of a grown elephant when they emerged, but the second they reached near Land-breaker, they shrunk down to his size.
The 20-plus chains wrapped Land-breaker in completely—even his giant sword attacks or the push of raw mana were very little effective against it.
There was a brief moment between a spell launching and its runic circle finishing when one could sense the full amount of mana required to create the spell—and this one had approximately 400,000 points worth of mana. Over double what a waygate spell required for activation.
