Maria von Hohenzollern
Royal Capital Lugnica
Iron Bell Knights HQ
Maria’s Room
It appeared that the current situation was escalating past what Maria thought was acceptable for a minor instance. Of course, to break into the Knights HQ was a rather significant offense, there were currently individuals not affiliated with the Knights within the HQ, or rather individuals who have the potential to join the knights given time, Ryan and Cheika, the duo from another realm.
There was also someone who Maria had just met, one Eris Reinhardt, as she had kindly introduced herself as, but knew little about her besides her asking if what had just occurred was magic, like one would ask a street performer pretending to be a magician to gain a bit of cash with his sleight of hand.
There was the random soldier who had brought the knowledge to Maria that the individual in question was not a member of the knights, nor a transfer member, and had found the aforementioned Eris Reinhardt during his patroling of the streets.
There was the unknown "knight?" who had appeared to have been nothing more than an impostor trying to steal something from the evidence department.
And last but not least, there was Grian, whom of which had the brilliant idea to use an area of effect magic debuff within the confines of the headquarters, which unfortunately extended to those in the area of the blast. Though due to her own ability, Maria had barely any sense of debuff due to a rejection of interference-based magics of such a calibre. However, those caught within the area of effect would feel their senses erode.
Quickly thinking to remove the shamak from the building, Maria began to charge a simple wind spell, a simple Fura, in order to disperse the spell's miasma-cum-hallucinogenic or perhaps preemptively prevent the spell from occurring on her guests in the first place, as though the spell of Shamuk at such a level should not be fatal, the disorientation definitely leaves much to be desired.
"Are you all alright!?" Maria asked her guests, coughing a bit and hoping they had not been harmed by the spell too much after it's dissipation in the area imminent to themselves. Those affected would have their senses inverted and other such oddities which one would find completely disorienting, though Maria herself had great affinity against those using Yin-based magic due to the majority of the spells being that of "interfering" rather than something physical.
Of course, there was the matter of the thief and the swordsman Grian, but that would have to wait until after she had confirmed that those around her were alright. After all, what was the point of preventing crime when you cannot event protect the ones you had sworn to protect? That was something that Maria believed in in all regards. Protection of the people over accusation of criminals. Maria was the sort to minimize casualties as much as possible before taking action. Perhaps that could be a weakness of Maria, but she genuinely cared for all people, whether they be travelers from another land or the vendor she buys her groceries from or even a certain noble magician friend she had from a young age.
Maria, perhaps at a subconscious level, wanted to go running after them, but if anyone was hurt she would instead chose to protect her fellow party rather than try for any sort of revenge. Perhaps this choice to protect her allies might cost her the bounty, but what sort of Knight abandons their comrades in their time of need? A proper knight would try for the best possible outcome of both situations.
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