Part 23
“Anyway, I stopped doing that because humanoid food tastes like garbage in my dragon mouth. I’ve Read Fire about it so I know it’s not supposed to taste like that, but I can’t think of a way to fix it, so I’ve just been Sending it out to sea for the fishes to eat. I can always Read one of you for it if I really want to know what something’s supposed to taste like.”
“Ingenious.” Six grinned. “And by the way you crazy dragon, I love you too. You’re the brother of my heart.”
“Brother of my heart.” Karz agreed with a grin as he reached over, and the two clasped forearms in loving camaraderie.
“Good morning.” Mark psionicly called. “Would you meet us in Backyard Valley please?”
Rather than reply, the children just Translocated there.
“You’re a bit early.” Six commented as they met all five of their parents and exchanged hugs.
“I hope your wedding night went well?” Val giggled as she hugged her mother.
“Very, very well, thank you!” Mark declared, and blushed a bright pink as he remembered, and his wives merely giggled.
“But I wanted to get here early to be sure I had time to get the Manifestations spell down solid before everyone gets here.”
“Oh. Well here’s the spell, let me run you through the parts.” Val said as she closed her eyes in concentration.
and
bet.” Fire proudly agreed. “It’s a god-level spell, and we sure could never have
where you’ll appear is clear of solid material. This analyzes the area around there for about a kilometer in every direction, and farther if necessary, to find material to make the new you out of. This gathers the material out of the air, water and plants in that area. Remember, this isn’t going to be a Simulacrum made out of energy, this’ll be a flesh-and blood copy of you. This actually makes the new you. This copies your mind into it. This little bit here tells the copy that
Link with yourself at
compound automated spell made out of
“Thanks.” Fire smugly grinned.
remember not to decide to make a copy of
lot of power too, but that doesn’t matter because the spell’s self-powering; it casts it’s own collection fields for the Source and the warlock’s Source. If the void was a really long way from the sun or you were eclipsed by a big world, that would also add a lot of extra time for power collection. But the basic materials that we’re made out of are actually pretty common among all the stuff that’s floating around out
really is just amazing.” Povon marveled as she followed what they were
as any examination could tell.
made a copy of you who made another copy of you, and they kept going, eventually something will go wrong as the
that spell exactly enough to rely on it.” Kragorram commented. “It may cast itself, but you still
the components are extremely dangerous. For instance, the part that disperses the copy is basically a frightening Disintegration spell, and there’s no reason why it couldn’t be used separately by those who are capable of doing so. Luckily, there’s probably no more than forty spell-casters who could do
of you ever even think about putting any spell of that level into an item in castable form, I will personally spank
replied with just a trace of a bemused
mentally rehearsed it one more time. “If everything
a moment, and then
at each other and simultaneously stated; “Damn this is just too…” They both paused, chuckled identically, and continued together; “Strange. I suppose we could both stand here