He gestured a very short distance with his hand: "So I reversed it; the first thing I changed was the most basic energy conduction structure."
When he said this, Aaron nodded slightly.
The elderly witch still had her head down, her fingers paused at a page index tag.
Duke continued, "I broke down the original three-step potion integration into seven steps. The first four steps are the same as the original process, but on the fifth step, I introduce spiritual power in a wave-like manner rather than the traditional straight-line infusion. This allows the potion to better integrate and smoothen when finally accessing rule perception. It sounds like just changing an entry angle, but the actual effect is that the first contact with rules for a Level 2 Mage feels less like hitting a door and more like gently opening a window that was meant to be open."
He paused for a moment to let the attendees digest this metaphor.
