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Originally Posted by Bibiribobiri
Besides strange mechanics (in my opinion, at least) it does not make sense to me that you somehow cast spells faster if you get attacked.
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You don't. If you cast a blocking spell on your turn you are casting it within the same second that you would cast it if you used it as a blocking spell. You can't cast it twice or cast a second blocking spell, but you can make another active defense. If you cast it as a blocking spell, you can't cast it on your next turn. The turns don't exist in game, they are overlapping periods of about a second, but to the character there's no clear boundary.
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Most blocking spells don't even affect the attacker to begin with (are cast on the caster). Thus, to fight better, a mage could "pretend" it is being attacked to block an imaginary attack (just as a martial artist can pretend it is being attacked while training).
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That doesn't mean you get a free hex of movement whenever anybody else takes a turn because you are slipping in response to an imaginary attack. Your "turn" isn't a discrete period of time like that any more than your miniature's position is anything other than a static representation of your average position during that time. Exploits that rely on artifacts of the representation of these as discrete are just metagame sillyness.
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Nothing prevents someone to pretend to grapple an invisible atttacker after parying an imaginary attack (this is indeed something that is done in solo Kung Fu training practices ��). This should be as fast (or even faster) as doing so for a real attack.
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Yes, nothing prevents that. It is called Concentrate and takes place on your turn.