Space Core

POV: Antier Egos

I stood frozen, the strange purple rectangle still in my vision. No matter which way I looked it followed and stayed right in the center of my vision; The block to my seeing ability made me panic a bit, but I took back control relatively quickly. I didn't have time for panic.

I quickly went over how I had activated this weird bit of magic, and rather quickly remembered that the 'system' had told me to think of 'status' as an order. It was only logical that trying the opposite would make it disappear, and my thinking 'close status' proved me right. I then quickly experimented with opening and closing the 'status' until I felt confident I could do so without a problem.

I snapped out of my trance and looked around myself; apparently, panic had taken over everyone around me. I have to get out of here and fast, I won't last a minute when people start truly running around and hurting others.

A quick look around me gave me a rough path toward the church, hopefully, it will be able to protect me. I started moving and pushed through groups of people, screams had finally begun to make their appearance with people coming out of shock. A right turn took me into an old alleyway, I knew a path from there that used the more obscure roads to get to the church.

It took me about fifteen minutes to get there, and what I saw left me speechless. A small kid dressed in old and ripped clothes was pulling people aside and calming them down before letting them into an old and broken stone building next to the church, probably to protect them from the crowds.

Evidently, what the kid did worked but he couldn't do it all alone. I rushed over to him all the while pushing people out of my way, hopefully having someone calm to talk to would help me.

"Hey! Kid! What are you doing, do you need help?" I shouted out, my voice barely able to be heard in the crowd.

"Wh- What? I, uh, yeah I need help! Get to as many people alone as possible and calm them down! We'll put them all into Certe's church!" The kid responded, his voice uncertain yet determined.

That old building is a church? Well, it would make sense for it to be so run down; The only god worshiped around here is Terse. But right now I didn't care about religion all that much, I needed to calm down people.

And so I began work, as I did every day; But this time it wasn't parchment work, I was actively saving people. I had my nose slightly broken due to a punch someone threw at me at one point, but the pain hadn't even registered as I had simply continued on calming everyone I could.

It was after around five hours of intense work that I could see the panic start to truly disappear; The people were too exhausted to continue doing anything. But the result from all of what had happened wouldn't be easy to fix. Broken down walls and windows, fires started from fallen candles, swords, and daggers dispersed haphazardly, and a strange smell of vanilla.

I looked to my left at the kid whose name I didn't even know, and let a smile show on my face; Despite the destruction, despite the chaos, everything would be alright.

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