[h2]Miina Malina[/h2]

Once the pressure plates were cleared, the redhead advanced towards the minefield and… stopped, crouched down with her tail for once level and still. As usual, she was just going ahead without actually [i]talking[/i] about what she was doing, already too wrapped up in the puzzle presented.

It was… hmm, the arcane magic was [i]interesting,[/i] she supposed? It wasn't really very often that she had come across magic made to do something [i]permanent;[/i] it came with the territory of being… well, generally reviled, especially when it came to black magic. She really ought to ask Rudolf if she could look at his big sword some time; there was something [i]very[/i] strange about that weapon… 

No, no, [i]focus[/i], Miina. The mines were [i]pure[/i] magic, there was nothing physical to them… which made it all the weirder, really. Ah, if only she had plenty of time to check how they worked, it would be nice to be able to set up something like this in future…

Still, for now she just had to get rid of them. It was possible that tossing something physical in would set it off. Hm, but then the entire minefield would clear itself if a bit of person got blown in by one of the [i]other[/i] traps, that would be no good. So… she wanted to set it off magically. Or just clear it out… the entire thing could probably be dispelled, but that would be a wasteful effort when they might have to do a lot more fighting. So… she'd need a better examination, one that didn't involve creeping right up to one of the mines and potentially having her face blown off.

"[i]Libra[/i]," the Mystral muttered, otherwise continuing to stare at the mines. So… if she looked past everything keeping it [i]stable,[/i] then it was basically just contained until the detection set it off? It was a neat construction, she supposed; very split out rather than integrated. The sort of thing built up until you could use all of it independently, and keeping any white and black magic [i]very[/i] separate… if they even counted as such; this wasn't her focus at [i]all.[/i] Still, that meant there was a critical weakness here: every single one of them could be triggered by the [i]same[/i]… hmm, what was the word? Ah, it didn't matter, she wasn't trying to teach it to anybody else. Some sort of metamagical [i]commonality[/i], that was all that was important.

So, if she just pulsed [i]that[/i] once…

"G-Got it," Miina announced, standing up and taking a step back. This range should be good, right? So… go.

Ah, she was really starting to enjoy the sight of things exploding, even if nothing got blown up.