The older man chuckled and shook his head. "Ritual magic will let you do more than what you can normally do. Take that heating test from yesterday. I could heat the water very quickly to exactly what I wanted. But what if I wanted to heat up, say a lake?" He paused and gestured at one of the scrolls on the wall covered with math before looking right into Arran's eyes..<br/><br/>"I wouldn't be able to make any noticeable impact with the regular spell. There's simply too much water. However, with a ritual I could heat the entire thing to boiling in several hours. It is slower, but you can make your spells much larger through using it." He waited now, eyes still watching for reactions.