Xenon the Xanthous 3

In the first place, there is a reason why magicians would mostly stay behind the backlines no matter how strong they were.

Because, in close combat, they are at a disadvantage.

As you had already seen, to control a spell, one needs to generate his mana from the core, chant it and then aim the coordinates most of the time, or in the case of those who had already mastered their special magic, they would still need to move their mana to conjure their spell.

However, in close combat, where anything can change in just milliseconds, a magician might now have the time to specifically defend one specific area.

Therefore, they would not specify the area they are using but would cover a large amount of area that had the highest probability of getting attacked.

But, this has one downside.