"Oh, it's like that…" Theo stared with great focus at the whisk of flame dancing on the palm of his hand.
After a short lecture and then a bit of coaching, Theo finally managed to get used to this new feeling, new idea, new way of putting his mana to use.
"That's right, now," Celeste's stare grew slightly more intense, "keep it going."
The theory behind Celeste's magic wasn't all that complicated.
Just like one would use structure, a form of cultivation in their bodies, they could also establish them beyond one's body.
In a certain way, the process looked quite similar to laying down formations, simply with some kind of runic language replacing the nodes and lines.
And the key to using this kind of magic was to memorize a set of the basic building blocks that, when combined, would create just the phenomena one desired.
Obviously, there was a hard limit to this.