There was a high anticipation to listen to Hilda talk about a different Activation to what they knew.
'There must be many such Activations, this will make it easier for me when I think of my own designs.'
Grey thought about his own plans as he listened to Hilda talk.
"The Record Activation is not really used in most situations because it requires a ring that is a higher tier because of its increased size, but I would like to introduce tier 5 magic ring design [Half Time Cast]. This magic ring design was made famous by tier 7 Arc Mage, General Karl Schneider.
"As you can guessed by the name of the ring, it's ability is to allow a mage to cast a spell using half the time."
'The implications of such a ring are many, an enemy can send out one spell whilst two spells can be sent out in response, and if low level spells are used, an enemy can be overwhelmed with low level spells not even giving a chance to retaliate.'
The reason Grey thought it was possible to overwhelm an enemy with low level spells was because mages took less time when casting spells that are lower tiers than them, and if the already short time is cut in half the effect would be powerful.
Christina even raised her hand showing a lot of enthusiasm.
"Mam, where can this be ring design be found!"
The girl was showing a lot of excitement, it really is disconcerting when she changes like that.
"Unfortunately this ring design is not known publicly, even in the military. The general has not divulged it, it is a privilege given to all members of the mage army, all members can keep their magic ring designs to themselves without being obliged to release them to the military. But the military will pay a lot of merits for really good magic ring designs."
Christina just deflated like that, and when she realised how she had behaved she then again went back to normal.
'This person is really passionate isn't she.'
Grey thought to himself as he observed Christina, they were similar, but also not similar.
"The mechanism of the ring has been guessed to be a Record Type Activation, it has been guessed that all the spells that get their cast time halved must be recorded before being used."
"The weakness of this ring is that it can only be used for tier 5 spells and lower, to cast a higher tier spell, the full cast time will be used. People believe that a higher tier version of the ring exists somewhere, that we will never know."
"One thing that is argued by people who like the Strengthen Activation is that the General lost the chance to strengthen something at tier 5, thus he lost a bit of potential, you can debate that on your own."
The lesson so far had taught the young mages that the field of magic ring design had to do slightly with some imagination. If you can imagine it, then design the Activation for it and then design a magic ring to allow your imagination to be realised.
Grey had many ideas on how to use this, he just had to create an Activation and some of the things he had seen being done on novels could be possible, one idea that stemmed from the idea of using multiple spells whilst your enemy used just one spell from [Half Time Cast] had already started to grow.
'I could go for a Dual or Triplet Activation depending on the size of the ring. I know the people of this world do not know how to multicast their spells, this would allow me to be more dominant of the battle field, submitting such a ring could also give me a lot of merits in the military.'
'I could go for a Repeater Activation as well, that would at least have me cast multiple spells at the same time.'
'For all my imaginations, this will be difficult, I don't believe I am the first to think of such ideas, mages are very intelligent and they must have thought of such ideas. I think I will only have a better advantage because I have a better understanding of what programming is and the fact that engraving is simply programming on an elementary level.'
Grey was a rational person and he understood that the world he was in was a real world not some novel with a protagonist that could make anything happen because he/she had a cheat method.
"Another example of an Activation is the Change Activation. The reason they call it that is because it will literally change something about the fundamental magic of the mage that has it engraved."
"Most kingdoms have such magic rings, and they keep them very securely and gift them to outsiders rarely, this is because they are very powerful."
"Tier 4 magic ring, [Increased Mana Regeneration] is an example of a Change Activation magic ring. I don't need to explain the implication this ring has during long battles, which is what usually happens at higher tiers, battles can go on for hours."
'This again a good choice, but this one directly lowers battle potential, at least with [Half Time Cast] the wielder has the possibility to overwhelm at opponent with low tier spells. But the combination of these two is just too deadly, maybe General Schneider uses a similar combination.'
Grey thought to himself, he was not the only one who had such thoughts as he observed his classmates, they too had similar thoughts.
"Another example of a Change Activation magic ring is tier 4 magic ring, [Source Increase], this one has similar effect to [Increased Mana Regeneration] in that it increases the battle endurance. This one does things differently in that it directly increases the mana pool of a mage."
"The reason I am talking [Source Increase] and [Increases Mana Regeneration] is because it is rumoured that the Imperial Family of the Empire in the south has a ring that combined their effects, and created tier 5 Change Activation magic ring [Infinite Magic]."
That even surprised Grey, that would be a very powerful ring to go against.
'A person that has a larger mana pool but still have an increased mana regeneration, such a person could just be considered a king/queen of long battles.'
"I am glad you understand that there many combinations out there that can make you very powerful, you just have to have the ability to create them, and I will teach you how to do that."
Hilda breathed out, she was slightly tired after all the lecturing.
"I will end the class here, I will begin to formally teach you magic ring design tomorrow."