Reactive Water Shield: A dead mage is a worthless mage, so any worth their salt prepare defensive measures before venturing out from whatever hiding place they spent the night in. Or, well, at least that was the case in Kria's timeline, and he learned such behavior from mages who knew how to stay alive. Every morning, before doing anything else, he always sets up his personal wards that will activate a defensive shield of water magic whenever they detect a threat coming his way. The ward does not require Kria to notice the danger himself, since part of the spell is magical vigilance for such things, but it can be circumvented by things moving too quickly for the shield to block them, attacks powerful enough to shatter the shield with little effort, or anti-magic to disable the ward entirely. The warding spell does not drain Kria at all to remain active, but it will dissipate if he loses consciousness or falls asleep and the creation of the water shield itself does pull on his magical reserves, using easily twice as much power as it would require for him to consciously make a water shield of the same dimensions and potency manually. (A spell that watches out for incoming threats and automatically creates a water shield around Kria if any danger to his person is detected.)
