Talk:Thorn Bind Hostage/@comment-5442458-20150407163234/@comment-5442458-20150411023228

I looked at the English manga and Akatsuki explained it on page 180 as "After my liege *set* the spell on Demiqas..." The manga says that each of Nyanta's attacks took 1/5 of a second. Thus, breaking all 5 thorns of one spell requires 1 second. With Nyanta's rapier in one hand, he cut 5 branches in one second. Then, with the other rapier he cut the next 5. So that was 2 seconds total. My conclusions are that...

1) It sounds like you can queue a spell before releasing it.  I know in some RTS games, you can charge an attack and store it for later use while charging for the next shot.

2) The cast time is instant, not 2 seconds.  (or the cast time has been reduced to 0 by buff or equipment)  The cooldown time is 15 seconds according to her, so unless the cooldown time was changed, Shiroe had to cast instantly between the 15th second and the 16th second, where Nyanta is able to attack 5 more times in one second.  The fight ends in 16 seconds.