"That won't take long, but there's no reason to wait. I'll need at least one of your spikes if it's to be transferrable.

Verve turned me invisible and inaudible, but warned that sorcerers might be perceptive enough to detect air currents from breath. So I didn't breathe. I wouldn't die as long as I was using gold, but it cost me a fair amount of stored health and, obviously, felt like I suffocated several times. That sort of situation is actually cadmium's primary effect. And once I have absurd quantities stored, I could create wind to interfere with sorcerers."