Chapter 67: Enforcers? [Bonus]

Chapter 67: Enforcers? [Bonus]

The rhythmic pounding of boots against the floor amplified as they rapidly approached. Tia's thoughts spiraled in a frantic whirlpool of various scenarios, none of them ideal, 'I'm alone in the office with the dead mage. This is not going to end peacefully.'

The possibility of escaping through the window crossed her mind, but the streets were packed, and cameras were on each cornerthere was no chance someone wouldn't notice a flying girl, potentially bringing even more trouble.

With a kind of cold finality, she came to the sobering conclusion, 'In that case, it looks like I will have to fight.'

Her attention snapped back as the steps halted at her threshold, and a series of booming knocks reverberated through the office. Tia didn't utter a word in response; instead, she silently seated herself with deliberate poise atop the imposing mahogany desk, her gaze fixing on the door.

'Who can it be? Police, someone random, or the murderer?'

The command pierced the heavy silence, "We are going in!"

Immediately, the doors flung open, and with thundering bangs, a duo of men in slightly old-fashioned, grey suits burst in, the wands in their hands glowing and pointing into the room.

Tia leaned against the table with a dead body, 'Let's hear what they have to say. Maybe I can get some useful information out of them.'

Their gazes zeroed in on her, magnetically drawn to the platinum halo of her hair. Almost instinctively, wands pointed at her, the mystical glow at their tips pulsating ominously in the darkness.

"Do not move!"

Methodically, they commenced a cautious advance, fanning out with trained precision. Their eyes darted nervously, incessantly flickering between the bloody writing on the wall , the eerie stillness of the corpse, and the young woman who sat on the table, smiling at them.

'I can't stop this spell with telekinesisit isn't even physical; they are just magic concepts of projectiles with some effect imbued into them.'

The orb struck the polished surface of the desk she previously sat on, exploding in a small firework of red and scarlet sparks, leaving no trace of their existence save for the transient scarlet glow that flickered momentarily before succumbing to nothingness.

'I saw enough.'

A smile appeared on her lips; she had seen their system of magic, so there was no longer any need to keep the play going. With the mental stretch of her mind, the two waves of raw kinetic energy launched across the room and struck with relentless force, picking up the duo of mages and hurtling them through the air like ragdolls caught in a tempest.

"Wha!"

With horror and surprise in their eyes, they smashed against the wooden bookshelf, crushing the luxurious furniture and sending splinters flying in every direction.

With a mere thought, the two wands were wrenched from their grip and soared directly into Tia's waiting hand, joining her own wand.

"Thank you. Maybe I will learn something interesting out of them."

Desperation and fear surged within them as they attempted to move and scream, but under the girl's unwavering gaze and pointed hands, they were immobilized, pinned to the wall like helpless insects by an invisible force.

With her eyes aglow and her hair swirling around her, Tia took a deliberate step forward, closing in on one of the mages.

'So they aren't using runic magic, but instead they are using vocal casting.' In the same way that the runes could represent magic effects and concepts, sounds could also do the same, allowing one to use their voice to cast magic.

'This is quite a curious system, but I hate it.' No matter how intrigued she was, she felt like the runic magic was superior, 'It is bottlenecked by the speed of someone's speech, while runes are only limited by the speed of one's imagination and rate of their mana flow.'