Chapter 84: A risky plan
The next day Calen finished his job way ahead of schedule - he was getting really good at precisely controlling the flame, and his purification has become so efficient that he could now do it three or four times without taking a break.
Sylara told him that he could go back to the fortress but he stayed, both to observe Elira’s training and to ask her about the potential sabotage.
Speaking of Elira, her task for today was to do the same thing she did with memories, but in real time on a plant she wasn’t physically in contact with - an ability that would make her a perfect scout.
Unfortunately for her, it wasn’t going very well, controlling a plant she wasn’t touching was possible indirectly through the nature domain, bu she had no idea how to connect to a distant plant directly.
The only guidance she received from Sylara was to ’forget about physical form and use the divine power directly’.
Calen was a bit curious whether his power could be used in a similar manner - could he cause that a tree standing hundred meters from him would spontaneously combust?
He would have to test it somewhere safe - while setting his enemies on fire was out of question considering both his power and the fact that sentient beings could resist his influence, it had other possible uses - remotely setting off explosives, trapping people with walls of fire, or even just creating light in large dark spaces.
"You wanted to talk to me about something?" Sylara’s words ended his deliberations.
"Yeah, but don’t you have an apprentice to teach?"
His eyes fell on the alchemist who was currently sitting in a meditative position with closed eyes and furrowed brows.
"She’ll be like that for a while, it’s better if she does it with as little help as possible." Sylara smiled. "So? What did you want to ask me about?"
"I’m surprised that you don’t already know, I thought you could see and hear everything in the city, and I discussed this with my friends."