To ordinary people, magic was just like tricks, yet also different from them. At the same time, while they were cool and dazzling, they also carried fearsome destructiveness.
However, all Magicians were well aware that magic actually wasn't that amazing—there was a specific and particular way to cast every spell.
How to chant the spell incantation;
How much magic elements they must gather;
How the magic elements should be arranged;
All these aspects had their own specific patterns and rules. Making a mistake in any of them would cause the spellcasting to fail.
What this meant was that Fireball Technique had its own way of arranging magic elements while the Fire Lotus Judgment also had its own set of spellcasting steps. Once they had been cast, the spells would be set in stone, and there wouldn't be any way to alter them anymore.
