Only an Idiot

Mysterious POV:

"Sir, we found the person the tracker was cast on, but we can't get through the barrier she placed. When we try, we just end up where we started."

"How is the dispelling going?"

"Not that good sir, at first we thought it was Space magic, but the essence of this spell is Gravity magic, and as you know, we are short on specialists in that field."

"Well, hurry up if you want your families to see you outside a funeral home."

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Jess' POV:

Well, this is boring. I've already tried all the food, and what else is there to do? Socially interact with people? No thank you, that is not my thing.

At least, not with this many people. Well, I guess I don't really have anything else to do, it would be kind of impolite if I just pulled out my phone and played games, wouldn't it?

There is another problem, someone is trying to get through my barrier, I can feel it. Who exactly? I don't know. I'm just happy I threw the thing up, who knows what might have happened if I didn't.

Well, the last thing I want to happen is for people to find out this barrier is two-sided. Basically, we are all stuck in here. Hm? Is the ground shaking or is it just me.

"Did everyone else feel that?"

Seems like the other people have noticed.

"It's probably just something small, no need to be worried."

I guess the teachers are trying to calm people down now. The last thing I want is people trying to leave. They will freak out that the barrier is up, essentially being trapped, and freak out if I take the barrier down because people are trying to get in for unknown reasons.

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"Sir, I got an idea!"

"Ugh, it's this moron, what is it?"

"What if we walk in circles? If straight lines don't work, maybe circles do!"

"You know what, I don't have anything to lose, just do what you want."

"Sir, it worked!"

"Are you actually kidding me..."

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It seems people have calmed down and are back to partying, I do wonder where that shaking came from, but it doesn't seem to be from the people outside the barrier, I don't feel any magic coming from that area.

Everything has a small gravitational pull. Gravity is something's warp of spacetime because of its mass and speed, and lately, I can feel that. I can feel anything's gravity and sense where it is. Pretty helpful ability, because nothing can escape this. No matter what you do, according to the laws of this world, you affect spacetime as long as you have mass and speed.

Because of this, I can feel that some people are near the barrier, but no magic. This means they haven't used magic yet. They are probably analyzing my spell, but don't want to give away their location.

That means the shaking had to come from somewhere else. I don't know where from though.

Oh no... it seems some people have gotten through the barrier. These people actually found its weakness, are they dumb or smart? Well, I guess I'll have to take extra measures.

I could warn everyone that there are intruders, but that would scare everyone and cause panic, it is best to get this information to the adults without causing panic.

I guess that the barrier serves no purpose anymore, the people already got through, so I'll take it down... actually, if I take it down, that's announcing that I know that I know they've made it through.

I'll take it down if anything bad happens, but for now, I'll leave it up to not make the intruders suspicious.

"So Jess, what are you so deep in thought about?"

"Hey Kari, don't worry about it."

"You seem to space out a lot. I thought your magic was Gravity, not Space."

"Hah, very funny..."

"Your sarcastic remarks hurt me."

"Yeah, sure. What are you doing here in the loner's circle."

"Just here to say hi to my sister, is that so bad?"

"Yeah sure."

"Okay fine, I wanted to ask you if you know what is happening outside right now. That shaking earlier was not natural, and you somehow are always at the place where bad things happen."

"That... is true I guess. There are some intruders, but they aren't the ones who made the ground shake, I don't know anything about that."

"Kay, bye!"

Just like that, seriously? Did she come over here just for that? Well whatever, I guess I get back to trying to stop the intruders from getting any further. I don't recognize any of their gravitational fields. Maybe they are lackeys to the leader of the ML that I met? If so, how do they know where I am?

Hmm, I'll try searching for disturbances in my flow of MP like before during the Spectrum College competition. Maybe they placed a spell on me.

Focusing on my flow of MP, I find a strange center of condensed MP, probably the source of how they found me, I'll just disperse this MP and the spell should be canceled.

Now I got to focus on the problem in front of me. It is kinda my fault for putting up a barrier that I knew had an obvious flaw, but in my defense, I didn't think that anyone would think of walking in circles to get through.

In order to cast my magic, I normally need to be able to see the target of my magic, but because I can find the location of these intruders through their gravitational fields, I should be able to attack them without a field of vision.

Let's mess with them a little. I think I thought of something funny.

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Mysterious POV:

"Good, we have made it to the building. According to the tracking magic, the target should be somewhere in the crowd of people near the center of this building."

"Sir, according to this map, walking down this hallway should bring us to where we need to go, but we've been in the same hallway for five minutes, and I still can't see the end of this place."

"You're right, something is off here. Hey you, rookie in the front, keep walking down this hallway and see if you see anything."

Ugh, why did I sign up for this assignment? It's my first day and I'm already being used as cannon fodder. Well, I guess I don't have a choice.

Walking forward, I see a group of people, similar in number to our group. Are there other people in this place? I thought it was empty other than the main hall where the party is! Wait, why do these people look similar?

Wait, is that my group? But they are behind me! Looking back they are still there, but they are in front of me too? How is this possible!

I keep walking forward, and it is in fact my group.

"What are you doing back here rookie!?"

"I-I walked through the hallway like you told me to and ended up behind you!"

"Tell me how that is remotely possible you rookie!"

"I-I don't know!?!"

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Hah, to mess with them, I connected the hallway they are in on both ends, basically creating an endless loop. It is impossible to escape until I dispel my magic. Basically, they are trapped there. If nothing is done, they will walk in a circle forever with no escape.

To make it even more confusing, I connected the walls on both ends too. Therefore, even if they break the wall and walk through, they will just end up at the same spot on the wall opposite to it.

I'll keep them there until the cops are here.