Magic does seem to solve a lot of problems... and there appears to be relatively little cost to using it. Well, maybe not this one here. It does absorb life energy. It doesn't feel too unlike what happens when my power activates at times.

But to see it purposed in this way is indeed marvelous.

[Moran comes from a warm country so this was never an issue, really... he doe sgive a small shiver, in spit of the cloak Xunxian bundled him up with.]