The Fire and The Storm - The Nexus of Kellaran #2 novel Chapter 166

Part 24

“It’s either that or development or both, since we already know that magic capability has little or nothing to do with physical size.” Fire pointed out. “Six must weigh twice me now, and he has twice my strength, but my power matches his and Val’s pretty closely.

“Watch.”

She did what Val had done, and was a bit less capable than her half-sister as a wizard, and a bit more as a warlock.

“See, there you are.” she concluded with satisfaction.

“I’m trying something else.” Mark said as he cast. “First I’m going to make my collection field so dense that almost no warlock source power gets through it, like I did with the Source and the heat when I blocked Zarkog. Then I’ll expand that to as much area as I can. Measure my output versus my last attempt. Make sure you kids stay in front of me so you don’t get blocked.”

He cast, concentrated, and went as far as he could.

Povon gave the result. “You only covered about an eightieth of the area, but your power output was almost the same, just a bit less.”

“Ah, good to know.” Mark nodded. “Shall we move in?”

“How far?” Povon asked.

“Rather than a certain distance or a portion of the distance to the sun, I’d like to move in enough that the intensity of the sunlight is exactly twice what it is here. But I don’t know how to do the calculation.” Mark admitted.

“Like this;” Povon said, and demonstrated both the calculation and the group Translocation.

They repeated all the experiments, then moved in again, then again. At each stage their ability to cast collection fields was the same, but where the sun’s intensity was eight times as much as where they’d started they found that venting heat from their bodies and brains was becoming a serious issue. They also found that maintaining such big collection fields and casting such incredibly powerful spells was starting to wear on their concentration.

They made one more jump inward and found that the sun’s power at sixteen times it’s intensity in the void above Kellaran was all they could process, and the maximum size of their collection fields was reduced.

“All right, that gives us our maximum power collecting and casting capabilities.” Mark stated with satisfaction. “Now let’s go back to where we started and try it with all four of us co-operating to cast one big collection field at a time.”

They did so, and when the four of them were expanding the three children’s collection fields for Source power for their wizardry, they did the same for Talia, Alilia, and the three dragons. They found that such co-operation increased their total power to more than the total of their individual abilities.