Finding a random reason to create a massive thunderstorm over the area was no easy feat. Someone would definitely notice, and the Shamans might panic when the weather started to change.
Especially as [Thunderstorm] was technically an offensive spell.
"Hey, since everyone wants water, why don't I make it rain? The shamans have things pretty well in balance now, so it shouldn't take much for me to cause a rainstorm and get everyone a single dose of rainfall." Karl offered.
"I will take rain just for the sake of rinsing Ragnar off. He's getting a bit ripe out here in the sun. One of the Dwarves joked.
The nearby vendors laughed. "Give us time to put up an awning if you're going to make it rain."
Karl nodded. "In that case, you have five minutes. After that, expect to get wet. This city does have drainage, right?"
The Dwarves smirked. "A Dwarven city without drainage? What do you think of us?"
Karl began building power and moving it into the storage items that he had.
(Why are we making it rain?} Dana whispered.
{Rae needs cover for something that she's doing, and she requested it.}
{You know that you're the one in charge, right?}
(Do you want to deal with sulky Rae if we make her stop torturing someone for information?}
{Pardon? Why is she torturing anyone?}
{Forget I said anything.}
"Alright folks, I'm about to start forming the storm. It will take a few minutes to start raining, as I'm going to try to get the farms in on the goodness as well." Karl announced, deliberately ignoring Dana's look that said the conversation was not over. Remi didn't come out, she just joined in the spell to add more mana to it and help shape the outcome, so the spell became a much less dangerous storm over a truly massive area.
The really hard part would be to have the lightning not take out livestock, small children and unfortunate farmers.
Karl focused on just eliminating all the Dwarves, Beastkin and Trolls from the spell's targets, but making it that broad was an issue. So, he changed the tactic to make it target Stone Rats and other rodent species that were not beastkin.
That gave the lightning something to target, without going after all the livestock. The spell spread rapidly through the region, stretching for dozens of kilometres, then sixty, eighty and finally a hundred. At that point, it was close to the horizon from ground level. That should be more than enough spectacle to keep the locals talking about everything but whatever Rae was up to.
The news was spreading quickly through the market, that there was someone here who specialized in large-scale water magic. So everyone was getting ready for the rain.
"So that's why you asked if the city had drainage, you were planning to flood it. But. the jokes on you. There is a cistern under the city, from the glory days when we still had regular rainfall. All along the city walls and the low spots, there are drains running to the cistern." He explained between heavy guffaws. freewёbn૦νeɭ.com
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