Talk:Satou Pendragon/Abilities/@comment-46318513-20200821005925/@comment-10330822-20200821124824

Magic is a little bit more complicated in this world.

Basically, magic works like this. You need the affinity, skill level, and proper code to perform a spell. The spell itself is casted via chant. The more complicated the spell, the longer the chant. Forbidden spells for example take a long time to chant.

Satou has a unique skill called Menu. Menu has two main features when it comes to magic, Magic Column and a magic source edit feature.

When Satou is exposed to a magic, he gains its affinity. For example when Nature Magic was used on him, he gained the ability to use Nature Magic. Afterwards, Satou needs to put experience points in an area he wants to develop. In doing his magic can be performed at a high level. However, Satou was initially bad at chanting, so what he needed was magic scrolls. The scrolls perform the magic once which in turn allows Satou to get the affinity and the magic spell in his Magic Column. Once they are in the magic column Satou can insta-cast anything with at least x10 its original strength.

When Satou makes magic, he is looking at spells through the magic source editor. They appear as complex equation and codes, and as a programmer, Satou can read the code and change its properties to get a desired result. However, that code is not necessarily usable by him he gets it put into a scroll. This is how he got his original magic before he could chant. After he learns to chant he can just cast it himself and then add it to the column.

Your theory isn't just a theory, its fact. Satou can create even advanced and forbidden-class magic of his own design, he just couldn't use it because no scroll can hold magic above intermediate-class and so Satou could actually craft his original advanced, forbidden, or even anti-god class magic until after he learned to Chant.

He even created his own forbidden-class destruction magic called Flame of Genesis, which is no powerful it burns a Space Kaiju to pieces even though their bodies normally absorb magic.