"It won't hurt them," he reassures him. "It will just make them stronger and faster for a brief time. It's actually rather interesting, it's very slight time manipulation."

He stops himself before he goes in to the details. It's very risky magic and if he's not careful he could do something disastrous but it works on a very small, very brief scale. Alexius would be proud, he thinks.

"I have to figure out how to make lightning less visible otherwise I'll blind everyone on the battlefield not just our enemies. Maybe I should try ice magic," he muses, wiggling his fingers with a bit of mana flowing over them. "Flashy is not really useful to you and the others right now."