Damian had been lost in his musings with how he could further refine his magic when Penny asked about how it worked, playing with flames along her fingers. He had to stop to think about, since he'd only ever been asked what it looked like before, not necessarily how it worked. "Well," he says, summoning the knife blade he often played with absentmindedly when he was really thinking about something and flipping it in the air and catching it, "I summon blades, like this, only much bigger usually, for a variety of abilities, offensively and defensively. Typically, they're orange like this blade here, but I have to other skill levels that I 'lock', or block my access to, in order to both reserve magic power and keep from going overboard in a fight with someone.

The first, Skill Lock Alpha, turns the orange blades and magic energy from orange to green, which means I've unlocked more powerful versions of the spells I usually use, plus access to a few I couldn't before, like Sonic Thrust or Ragnarok Blade. They're extremely powerful spells, though not my strongest. After that, there's Skill Lock Omega, which turns the magic energy and the blades from green to black, allowing me to use even more powerful versions of my normal spells and more locked spells like Judgement Strike." Damian takes a moment to let it sink in, still tossing the knife blade into the air, before continuing. "Put simply, I summon blades that can rain death, erupt from the ground, sail through the air or even come out from my cutlasses here."