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Leap is a spell that allows a person to literally leap into the air like a superhuman and clearing heights and distances a normal person could never clear, such as using it to leap up to another floor inside a building.[1]
Details[]
Leap is a cornerstone spell of the Mirage Bat event of the Nine Schools Competition, used by many competitors to reach the balls of light and score to the extent that there are also Born-Specialized Magician for the spell.[2]
But the burden of repeated usage of Leap which is similar to running a full marathon and in terms of physical stamina, this was more punishing than Crowd Ball or Monolith Code. As such, Mirage Bat has a large interval between matches to give enough time for the players to recover from exhaustion which starts at 8 AM for the preliminaries and finishes around noon. Then the elimination round starts at 7 PM, making it the only night time event in the entire Nine Schools Competition. [3]
Optimization[]
In the 2095 Nine Schools Competition, Shiba Tatsuya makes adjustments to the Magic Sequence of Leap which minimizes the burden on the player and maximizing performance. This optimization made by Tatsuya allows the player to leap straight into the air - completely ignoring the effects of gravitational deceleration while moving to a ball of light, stop at the ball to strike it and landing after expending all inertia without manipulating the CAD thanks to the Magic Sequence completely written into it.
Due to this small Magic Sequence, it provides faster processing speed and in turn lesser burden for the players since they are using less magic power for rewriting the phenomeon at the fastest speed possible, which made the Magic Engineers of the other schools think that they are competing against Taurus Silver himself. [4]
Tatsuya's optimized Magic Sequence of Leap was eventually used in Police and Firefighter CADs and even after three years, no room for improvement has been found for the spell. This also is one of the reasons why Tatsuya's accomplishment on his first year as a Magic Engineer became a legend that even aspiring Engineers chooses to enroll in First High School in the succeeding years.[5]