He repeated the very same process he usually did for casting spells.
He concentrated, drawing mana from his mana conduit, channeling it through his veins.
Then, he went towards the three steps of conjuring a matrix.
Imagination, which creates a matrix for the spell.
Instincts, which decide how the spell should react with reality.
And finally, Fueling and release, in which you feed the mana into the matrix, and it manifests into a physical form.
Of course, as he finished the second step, he immediately let the spell go.
It took him around 5 seconds, which was a substantial amount for a single spell.
In an active combat, this would be fatal.
But this was exactly why he had to train it.
He can't just rely on his pre-fired spell.
Sure, in the past month, his capacity for how many matrices he stored increased a lot.
But it was not unlimited.
And it didn't hurt to have a backup.
As he always said, "There is no such thing as being overprepared for anything."
