Chapter 275
Elder Song guides us smoothly through the portal in the refugee camp after a few minutes, still carrying Gerald in his arms. We take the long way back towards the pack compound, since we don’t want to lead anyone who might be following us directly to a group of refugees and other civilians.
Plus it’s raining here, which should render most methods of conventional tracking useless after only a few hours, washing away scents and everything else.
With the amount of destruction we caused, they should be busy at least that long, and the Divine Transfer prefers to resort to oracles for everything, setting the timing to some perceived opportune moment instead of blindly charging in and blowing up random targets like a certain someone I know.
Who me? No, definitely not.
We’re almost back to the compound when it finally dawns on Gerald that Elder Song is still stroking his tail, brushing it to a glossy shine and perfectly tangle free.
"Are you about done? You can kindly set me down now, you old lunatic."
That makes both me and Song laugh. Who is he to call us the crazy ones, he’s the one going around disguised as a little girl. Though he might have a point with Lunatic, Elder Song is a bit of an oddball at the best of times.
"As much as I appreciate the revelation that came from witnessing your technique firsthand, I do believe that spell will have to be added to the declaration of prohibited magics, and banned from use on sentient beings, effective immediately." The investigator informs me with a strict glare.
"Don’t be like that, it’s just like any other perfectly mundane spell, it can even be used to generate stable energy for daily use. It’s just prone to misuse is all, no need to go all out and list it as prohibited. Plus, isn’t there some sort of formal procedure for that? You know, a vote, an appeals process and such?"
"The Young Miss has a point, it takes decades to finish signing a newly prohibited spell into regulation after the required hundred planetary councils agree that it needs to be prohibited. Plus, without seeing it in action, how many would understand it? They’ll think it’s just a modified explosion spell and dismiss your request without even reviewing it, since the principles of Explosion type magics are well documented. I should know, I did a lot of the documenting." Elder Song agrees with my viewpoint.