Anyway, I need to find more evidence and clues so I can tell the king. It won't be child's play, especially since we're facing a kingdom, not mere bandits. In short, I have to play detective now. I hope they don't start today, because I'm not ready and… While I was talking to myself (I'm not schizophrenic), an explosion sounded. Of all times I didn't want this to happen now.
When I arrived at the explosion site, I noticed suspicious people. I didn't run after them; instead, I let them go. It would be better to let them escape now to gather more evidence later. The reason I stayed calm is that every building is secured by a barrier. Yes I had secured every corner of the kingdom when I heard the explosion. To reduce casualties, I spent mana. The barriers remain active until I'm exhausted. Pretty convenient it's cosmic magic. I invented this spell because magic in this world hasn't advanced much.
Inspecting the scene, I found that although 36 people were affected, 35 were alive. That's good, but suspicious: the blast lasted five seconds, which means it was huge and powerful. Yet most in fact nearly all survived. Wait: those suspicious people I saw headed southeast, an area that's barely populated but has an important building at its center: the Seat the hall where the king, princes, barons, dukes and others gather to discuss incidents. So the explosion wasn't meant to kill civilians. It was a distraction to draw the king to the Seat.
The Seat gives them the chance to kill the king, the dukes, and the princes. The goal, then, was to eliminate the king and other nobles to topple the kingdom. And since the Seat is the tallest building in Suki, if it collapses it would trigger a massive tremor that could activate the Michano volcano (it's a subterranean volcano that interacts with thermal waters that's why Suki is nicknamed the Kingdom of Cold. It's the only country with a Nulcan: a volcano whose lava is cold rather than hot. In our world, the closest thing is "Ol Doinyo Lengai").
It's a brilliantly destructive plan hats off. But that's not the important part. The important thing is how to save the king. Upon reaching the destination, I ran up the stairs… Wait, I'm an idiot — I can use wind magic to fly. I went back down the stairs and flew instead. Why did I go down when I could have kept climbing? Never mind — not my problem. I knock on a window, not a door, because there is no door in midair. If there were and someone opened it, they'd fall two kilometers (if you wonder why they wouldn't fall otherwise, it's thanks to elemental magic using levitation). So how would they make the building collapse? Simple: they'll blow up the core that powers the building's magic.
When I tried to explain what was happening to the king, I heard a…