>>Hael
I landed in the City Council's building
"The master is here!!" The workers there, mostly idiotic nobles, were relieved to see me and came running over when they saw me.
"Master, please-" The one who tried to come onto me as soon as I landed had his mouth shut up by me with magic.
"Move," I was annoyed. These fools can't even maintain a single barrier. I already took half of their job to help them out and yet they fail at the only thing they are supposed to do.
I made my way to the magic device they were using and saw that the core was damaged. It wasn't getting the right amount of magic to maintain the barrier and so in the end it broke.
I grabbed it and threw it out. Then I placed my hand in the device that covered about the space of a single-seater couch.
An artificial core can only do so much, it should be changed every six months considering the amount of miasma.