"Oh! If you can do gaudy things... Gold is actually really useful to Witches who might need a lot of power on short notice. It can store mana for later use."

"Oh, god. Someone should've told me that a lot sooner. I can conjure piles of gold. Is there anything else to it? Or just plain jewelry is fine?"

"Jewelry's about it. Gold, gemstones especially diamond and ruby, silver and other stones work mostly but are varyingly slippery and lossy."

"Ok. I can make s few thousand generic bracelets of solid gold. Does it need to be in contact or something like that? I could also add gold to anything, if that would help."

"Skin contact with bare metal or gem, is what's needed. A few different sizesmaybe adjustable enough to go around legs or small enough to be sewn into a shirt would probably be handy, and gold's easy to work if nothing else. We have... What, two billion people, one in a thousand Witches, two million. Not sure how many are in the military and still young enough to be combat-capable but maybe another tenth or twentieth of that. Two hundred thousand. Bet we'll get more if stored mana's an option and we really need it. We're not about to build a strategic mana reserve though, well, maybe. There's established systems for buying up mana from those who want money more than magic. So, twenty tons of stuff to start with and we can ask for more later? I'll add it to the URD's request list."

"I was already thinking of an a kind of bracelet that would fit anyone, but the particular design could be improved," Felix says then after thinking for a moment, "this is probably not practical even if it works that way, but does the gold needs to be all a single piece? And is there like... a size limit? I was thinking of something like a network of gold cables."

"Gotta be a solid piece."

"Ok, then. Not really feasible for a gold network then. We will have to settle with me being able to conjure El Dorado-- which you might never heard before, so settle on just being able to create literal mountains of gold. Plus advanced technology. Plus my own magic. Oh, hey, want to see the floating fountain where I emerge from after dying? Maybe you will be able to more easily copy my immortality from that."

"Doesn't sound copiable at all but it would be just lazy not to try."

"True, it's a lot of magic, it takes my brother 200 hours of sleep to make one."

This statement should leave Gren impressed now she has some idea of how much absurd level of power even half of that would means in terms of pure power.

"Yikes. That's a lot of mana alright."

"And since this is Fenris is more like, 250 hours instead. He can be very focused."

Felix leads her through the portal and through the most absurdly overdecorated house she has ever seen and then they are in a large topiary garden.

Gren feels it approach way before she sees it, a large boulder of rock, a stone fountain with a statue of Felix at the top.

It is the single strongest concentration of magic she has ever seen or even imagined.

She stops well before actually approaching it.

"Imagine you're a musician prodigy who can learn any instrument and song you hear in a few minutes. Then imagine being asked to imitate an orchestra and all its subtle layers and be louder than a thundercrack while you're at it."

"I would tell the person that the task is impossible to do it alone...?"

"Yeah... And I can't exactly produce a squad of twins from thin air. I wasn't pinning all my hopes on this, anyway. The rest of your help will have to do."

"It can't be that bad...?"

"It's a wall of sheer power. Pretty sure it's mostly indestructible too? I might make progress on it, slowly. But even if I do Witch magic is terrible at permanently magical things."

Felix frowns. "You can broken, but it will fix itself eventually, but well... Sorry, for wasting your time."

He looks rather shaken.

"It might just look that way because enchanting is supposed to be powerful. I couldn't duplicate one of my mirrors either, and I can barely make more cloud fluff without them."

Felix nods. "Do you think you would have anything to gain from the... individual layers? If you don't I will just store it away."

"Hm. Maybe... It's very grounded. I'm not great at pivoting things, but. Five minutes of taking notes?"

"Sure. As much you'd like. I only keep it locked up and secure in case of emergency."

She takes notes, even going so far as to draw out abstract diagrams.

If Felix seems interested she partially explains the system she made to chart spell structures.

Felix is in fact curious, dreamshapers have some sense of the things they make, but they can't really show that to other dreamshapers and would be good to have some confirmation of Fenris' analysis.

"Uh, fair warning, pretty sure that I imitate and don't copy directly."