"It's that easy? Is there no study required? No...prerequisites?" A man under a hedge.

Knowledge can, of course, be sold. His textbooks and tuition prove that much. But this seems like an advanced field, a complex science, and for someone to become titled in it through the equivalent of reading one list of chemical formulae that compile a mixture... Or that's what he presumes a spell must look like, on paper, perhaps with the addition of some instruction on technique if one spell was enough.

"Has no-one, done further research into the foundational aspects of your 'magic' and why it functions as it does?"