As some people may know, there is a well to cast an unlimited amount of spells in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim without using any magicka, but for those of you who don’t, this article will explain how to do so. This is done not by using any glitches or cheat codes, but rather through hard work and dedication. The final goal is achieved by accumulating a 100% reduction to the usage of a particular school of magic, and eventually two schools. The remainder of this post will be a step-by-step process of how to achieve this game changing effect.

Step 1: Leveling Enchanting

The most important thing to do in order to cast spells without consuming magicka, is to get your Enchanting first to level 70, and then eventually to level 100. While this may sound like a very tedious task to do, it is actually quite simple, and can be done without dumping ridiculous numbers of hours in the process.

• Acquiring Soul Gems – Soul gems are crucial to leveling enchanting, as they are used to both create enchanted objects,  and recharge weapons that have had an enchantment placed on them. Acquiring soul gems can be  a pain early in the game, but once you get the proper materials it becomes very simple to do. While their is a spell called “Soul Trap” in the Conjuration school of magic, it is not the most efficient way to gather the souls that are needed to level your enchanting skill, as it requires you to be within melee range to successfully cast the spell on an enemy, and then use another spell or weapon to kill the enemy before the affect expires. Thus, there are two alternatives. You can either search the map of Skyrim high and low until you come across a weapon that is capable of capturing souls, or you can level up your Conjuration skill while putting the perk points into the branch of the tree for conjured weapons, until you reach the spot that allows them to capture souls.
• Enchanted Weapon with Soul Trap – If you chose to find a weapon with Soul Trap, bring it to the nearest Arcane Enchanter and disenchant it. This will allow you to be able to put the enchantment on any weapon you want in the future. If you chose to go this route, make sure you enchant the weapon with only a 1 second cast time, as this will provide the maximum number of charges, and it is really all you need.
• Gathering Souls – Once you have all your means of collecting souls, you must then gather as many soul gems as you can to store them in. You will find numerous soul gems, both empty and full, during your travels in Skyrim, but searching for them can take a long time. The easiest way to acquire empty soul gems, is to travel to the College of Winterhold, and buy every empty Petty or Lesser soul gem that the vendors there have to offer. These are very cheap in cost, and will be a great start to leveling your enchanting.  Once you have as many empty soul gems as you can get your hands on, set out into the wild and begin killing enemies with whatever means of Soul Trap that you chose to use. Avoid killing humans and humanoids, as their souls can only be captured in Black Soul Gems.

Step 2: A bit of Blacksmithing

After you have filled up as many soul gems with souls as you can, you must now begin the enchanting process. To do this, you will need very large amounts of non-enchanted items to place enchantments on. The easiest way to do this (while gaining some extra skills points in the process) is to craft as many Iron Daggers as you can.

• Making Those Daggers – To do this, you basically just need to check out the inventories of every available Black Smith, and buy every single Iron Ingot and Leather Strips that they have. Proceed to the nearest forge, and let the crafting of what seems to be endless Iron Daggers begin.
• Magic Daggers – Once you have your daggers, head to the nearest Arcane Enchanter, and begin enchanting the daggers with the desired enchantment (I have found that Turn Undead provides a pretty good amount of gold, which is what you will want since you will be selling these daggers after you enchant them). Hopefully you have some sort of weapon enchantment, but if not bring any already-enchanted weapon to the Arcane Enchanter, and disenchant it to acquire its effect.
• Sell Those Daggers – After you have enchanted as many daggers as you can with what soul gems you have, head out to any vendors you can come across, and sell those daggers for as much gold as you can get. This should fetch you a good amount of gold, which can then be used to buy more soul gems. The vendors at the College of Winterhold will have a new supply of soul gems after 48 hours of in game time.

Repeat these steps until your enchanting reaches a skill of 70, while placing your perk points in the following spots (They are all in the middle of the tree):

• Enchanter 5/5
• Insightful Enchanter
• Corpus Enchanter
• Extra Effect (once you reach skill level 100)

Step 3: Almost There

Now that you have an enchanting skill of at least 70 or higher (and hopefully a hefty sum of gold), you are now within grasp of achieving the final goal of casting an unlimited amount of spells. Although this can be done with any school of magic, the school of Destruction may be the best (and most fun) to do this with.

• Finding the Enchantment – This may be tricky, but you will have to come across a piece of gear that has a “Fortify Destruction” enchantment on it. Once you find it, disenchant the piece of gear to acquire its enchantment for your own use.
• Armor Up – After you have tracked down the “Fortify Destruction”  enchantment, gather a a chest piece, and a helmet (Glass Armor, Glass Helmet, etc.), 1 ring, and 1 necklace. You will also need an Enchanter’s Draught or stronger, which can be found while adventuring in the wild, or occasionally at an Alchemy Shop.
•  Done – Consume the the potion that will increase your enchanting. and combined with your current skill, it will be enough to bring your “Fortify Destruction” enchantment up to 25% when placed on an item with a Grand Soul Gem. When used on four items, this will achieve a 100% reduction for that school of magic. Eventually, with the Extra Effect perk, you will be able to do the same with a second school of magic.

And there you have it! The ability to cast spells without consuming magicka. You will notice that after you have achieved this effect, your magicka bar will no longer appear when casting a spell from the school that has the 100% reduction. Enjoy!
For a video walk through of this effect, check out this video, courtesy of Youtube user Zowbaid89