as we have seen in this chapter a leg can also be considered a "weapon"....i mean the gobs balls DID get destroyed.I love when authors bring logic and minmaxxing to magic. If it is a natural process it really doesn't make sense that a spell would affect a specific object, but instead produce a certain effect on every matter.
More importantly, if it can be "generalized" so easily then why isn't everyone using it like that? It's implausible that no one ever tried it if this guy can figure it out in one night.If you're going to make your magic system that simple then youre better offnot going into that much detail.
The key is imagination; i think no one thought about using it that way because label says “weapon breaker” so they think “a tool i can whack someone with like a broom”.More importantly, if it can be "generalized" so easily then why isn't everyone using it like that? It's implausible that no one ever tried it if this guy can figure it out in one night.
That's a big thing. People in split-second survival situations rarely have the leeway to consider imaginative uses for the tools they have, except as last-resort measures. It's entirely possible that someone else has made the same leap of logic that Kikori has, but didn't make it out alive afterward -or that it just became known as a different spell altogether, and the name is just a way to help direct your imagination in a more focused manner. After all, if there's no rigid requirements to use magic, like spell components, specific chants, or sigils and so on, what exactly is the underlying difference between Earth Wall and Earth Spike? They're both traditionally depicted as rock or stone rising from the ground, just one in the shape of a rectangle and the other in the shape of a cone.The key is imagination; i think no one thought about using it that way because label says “weapon breaker” so they think “a tool i can whack someone with like a broom”.