"As I was saying,"
Selaphiel began again, voice steady,
"Magic circles or incantations are required to cast spells. Incantations are basically tools of visualization, while circles are tools of output. Which is to say—"
"Okay, okay—I'll explain it. Please stop messing things up."
Selaphiel fell silent.
Lugh could already see why she'd initially decided to let Zhou do the talking.
If the taller elf was going to interrupt every single time something was even slightly inaccurate, then just handing her the reins seemed like the only reasonable choice.
He found himself wondering—Was Zhou a professor once? With her age, that didn't seem particularly far-fetched.
"Alright, Lugh, try to visualize what I'm saying,"
Zhou began, her tone shifting into something more deliberate, more structured.
"Imagine pure magical energy—that is, mana—as numbers."
She raised a hand for emphasis.
"A human mage has ten points of mana. Okay?"
Lugh nodded, saying nothing.
