"I told them earlier to keep their distance from those Arcanists—"
Fang Hong stood to the side, sweating profusely, fearing that everyone would suspect him.
Fortunately, the production department of Tansnier always had a precedent of taking the fall, shielding him from suspicion. Only a middle-aged craftsman walked up to the Magic Absorber, examined the protruding spikes on the ground, tested their hardness with his hand, and discovered that the spikes did not retract after the spell dissipated.
"Physical attack," a craftsman said to him, "Seems to be an Earth System Spell."
The middle-aged craftsman was not an Elementalist himself and was unfamiliar with Elemental Spells beyond the few commonly used in Magic Guided Constructs. He just nodded lightly at the words.
