 Midawan, an armorer, is worried it will render his profession obsolete, while Semkaf, a wizard from Typhon, is overcome by greed for the device.His apprentice attempts to kill Gleokh for it, only to be shot by the gun, whereupon Semkaf conjures up an invisible serpent to finish the job his servant started.Suar and Midawan are literally caught in the crossfire, and it falls to the armorer to save them both…

Chronologically, "The Stronger Spell" has no settled place in the chronology of de Camp's Pusadian tales.