[center][h3][color=aba000]Alexander Shields[/color][/h3][/center]

"[color=aba000]Right, fuck this. Time to get a little experimental[/color]" When Alexander saw how the forcefield on Lilly almost fell with a single spell. While he did get a little satisfaction at seeing an attack that [i]could[/i] have badly wounded (maybe even killed) Lilly being blocked by his magic, he was also upset that he was feeling any sort of satisfaction from such a passive act. He [i]should[/i] be getting satisfaction from crushing his enemies, seeing them driven before him, and to hear the lamentation of their women. For a barbarian, Alexander found himself connecting with Conan, even if he was a little iffy on what 'hear the lamentation of their women' was supposed to mean, since it implied that your enemies would leave their women behind...or something. Philosophy was confusing.

First, Alexander replenished Lilly's forcefield. Next, he made two clones in front of him and put a hand on both of their backs. Duplication allowed him to create mostly perfect copies of himself; they were just as fast and strong as you with some wonky durability, but they couldn't use your magic. For someone like Alexander, this limited their use greatly. However he had a theory; what if the problem wasn't that they [i]couldn't[/i] use magic, but that they [i]didn't[/i] have any, besides what made them. If the latter was true, then all he needed to do was give them some of his own magic, and they could use it too. Normally transferring magic power between people was difficult due to the difference in people mana signatures (like blood types, but way more complicated), but these were clones of him, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Nodding to himself, Alexander began to pump as much magic into them as he could. At first it was working, but than he noticed it start to leak out of them '[color=aba000][i]dammit! They can't store mana in their bodies. So much for having them boost me[/i][/color]' He was to write off this idea as a failure, when he thought of something; '[color=aba000][i]wait...they can't hold the mana in their bodies long enough to boost me...but they can hold it in long enough to boost someone else if I keep pumping more in[/i][/color]' He looked over to Lilly, who seemed to be struggling against some other girl.

"[color=fff200]For the last time, he's not my boyfriend![/color]"

Wait...what the hell were they talking about?

"Alright Illy and Umi, time to take the trash out!"

That...no. If Lilly was having so much trouble with just one of them, than three of them could...no, no he refused to let that happen. "[color=aba000]Change of plans; boost Lilly, both of you.[/color]" It seemed so simple now that he thought about it; boosting someone wasn't really that mana intensive, at least when you consider how much power it gave the target. He hadn't tested it, but Alexander theorized that a full boost on an average teenager could bring them up to Olympic athlete level. No, the problem was that it demanded his full attention. To put it in computer terms; it used up all of his processing power, but took up little electricity itself. Hell, his mana  recovery rate would allow him to maintain five, maybe six instances of that spell before the cost was greater than his mana regeneration. So giving two clones of him, who had the memories needed to use the spell, and having them boost the same person; yeah, that was doable. The clones got to work fast, reaching out to Lilly with the mana he was pumping into them, and strengthening her. Taking a closer look, Alexander noticed sparks arcing off of her '[color=aba000][i]huh...that's odd. Oh well, she looks fine, so that's probably just a sign of her magic being boosted. Actually, is she using her lightning to enhance her reflexes? Because if she is, than the whole world must look like it's in slow motion to her now.[/i][/color]'