"Doing what exactly?"

"Having its encounter with the dummy."

"What, if it just - moves away from it suddenly? I... suppose it's possible it might do that if I don't use the spell to designate the dummy as an enemy... which I maybe should not because the archon might in that case attack it and it's useful."

"If you don't summon it right next to the dummy, and it has a lot of questions, there might be barely any time for it to encounter the dummy. And I do think the dummy is useful."

"I'm planning to summon it right next to the dummy, and I will not designate the dummy as an enemy, but if it's startled it might move away perhaps. I can ask it to go back, though; 'stay there' and pointing doesn't take half a moment."

"Okay. That sounds like a good plan."

"Anything else?"

"To confirm, the plan is that you talk unless the archon has questions for me?"

"Yes."

"I'm ready, then."

They head over to the dummy.

"Summon Monster III."

There appears a ball of cheery yellow light.

Nothing pops out of it.

"Hello. On this planet, humans trapped monsters underground long ago, the monster king is collecting human souls to power a - process - to escape and means to then kill all the humans, he has six of seven and I seek instruction on my conduct."

The glowball spins. "Oh no! I'm not really qualified for that. You could summon a bigger celestial?"

"I can't. I'm third circle."

"Well you've just got to do the best you can. If you already tried praying about it then Iomedae knows but not every prayer can be answered!"

"Should I consider suicide acceptable to deprive him of a soul?" asks Blai, talking faster.

"If you can't do any better!" says the archon anxiously, and then it winks out.

"Well, let's hope you can do better… I don't suppose you can use external sources of magic energy to summon a bigger celestial."

"Uh. Not that I know of, but I haven't tried it."

"Well, we have magic electricity here. Don't just go touching the sources, though, you could electrocute yourself."

"I don't see what I would do with magic electricity. Lightning spells can't power up other spells that I'm familiar with."

"Is there a part of your spell where you have some energy come from you, and instead there could be more energy, if only you had more energy?"

"My spells are from Iomedae. A pearl of power, if I had one of the right size, would let me cast the same spell again in the same day, catching it for me like I can catch orisons, but not extend it or make it a higher circle, and it's that last I'd need for a bigger celestial."