I blame the basis of the spell. Would you have preferred we used the springing forth from the ground option?

[But he's being lifted at this point, and there's no point in remotely fighting any of this. The fire's warm, he has all his limbs (because those don't grow back), and once on the ground, the trunk is put aside.

But then the person responsible for dinner is revealed, and Alucard's nose wrinkles.]

I travel a continent in just a few hours, and this is how I am rewarded for it.

[Unfortunately hunger wins out on this one.]