"How is the consumption?"
Miss Sylvia, squinting by the wall, asked. Shade, maintaining his casting posture, replied:
"The consumption isn't too great, at least not when I'm not under attack."
The "God's Radiance" state enhanced all of Shade's thaumaturgies and incantations. Its enhancement of the Heaton Seal did not allow the originally immobile thaumaturgy to move, but rather allowed its originally fixed-volume protective shield to expand.
The Heaton Seal did not limit how many people besides the user could be protected, but the shield summoned by the Seal itself had a fixed volume. It was already difficult for it to completely protect two adults huddled together. But for Shade, by paying additional spirit, he could enlarge the shield's volume. This expansion also had a limit, but it was more than enough to protect two Shades standing side by side.
Therefore, God's Radiance made the Heaton Seal even more valuable. When Shade demonstrated the thaumaturgy, the golden shield had already exceeded the recorded size, but Miss Sylvia seemed not to notice this strange change and continued:
"Next, let's test its defensive strength. Don't worry, I'll control my force."
She was extremely enthusiastic about this test.
Next, she used a lightly tossed pebble, Little Mia walking over slowly, Shade's revolver, a pebble thrown with full force, a fireball summoned by the Manipulate Fire incantation, the Document Level Relic Anesthetic Pocket Watch carried by the witch, and the Space Cutting thaumaturgy to test the Seal's strength.
Firearms were completely incapable of breaking the golden shield, merely causing slight ripples on its surface;
The cat walking slowly toward Shade scratched the shield several times with her paws, but failed to pass through;
A lightly tossed pebble was about as effective as striking a wall, while a pebble thrown with full force shattered into powder