Versatile: Alternate World

The explosions are indeed as loud as firecrackers but they aren't as loud as the explosives like bombs, however, this is clearly using the abilities too much that it creates a disturbance. Even I don't want to do this as the disturbance is big enough that might attract the attention of the police.

As I continue tracking, I finally catch up to the guy causing this ruckus. This guy was actually one of the delinquents I keep seeing in the streets hanging out with other delinquents as well. Seeing him with a big smile on his face while producing the magic ability to make small explosives that explode when thrown which in turn made the mana in the air take form. And as it was always used, the more the mana in the air gets utilized. Soon that allowed the formation of the Aether which is what we saw earlier.

Stopping this guy is necessary. Not only does the formation of Aether a little bit troublesome at the moment, but it's also something that might attract the attention of the authorities who are still studying the magic phenomenon. Until the magic idea gets publicized and allowed, the limit of using magic is necessary to avoid the eyes of prying people. It will also help me more in the process, especially with Rennata living inside my mansion.

The Aether in the air just formed so dissipating it will be an easy task to remove. It's not going to be much of a problem just yet if it only appeared for a single day. Since most of the traces of the Aether are coming from the one causing these small explosions, the only way to halt the progression of the Aether formation is to persuade the one causing it or subdue him and make him stop what they are doing.

I am getting closer to where the explosions are coming from and to avoid being detected by the one doing it, I took the easy way to avoid detection, going to the rooftops. Once I reached the rooftops, I activated my [Stealth] and used it as a second way to go into stealth, after all, the person I am tracking is not the only person in the neighborhood and no one knows who is watching in their windows right now.

Now that my stealthy approach is good to go, I focused my attention on the delinquent causing it. Along with his guys, they are smug enough of causing trouble to others. They are clearly not doing it for the practice of magic but they are doing it for vandalism and making trouble like the troublemaker they are.

The magic they are doing is a firecracker type of magic spell of the first tier from the Magician branch, the [Decoy Bomb]. Because this skill was loud enough, any enemies in the area will be attracted to it and focus their attention on it for the duration of the [Decoy Bomb]. It's a useful spell for the Magicians who play alone to take down enemies in multiple groups since they can group up enemies in one place as they charge up their spells and bombard them with them, obliterating them as a result.

But since there are no monsters in the real world, using this spell only makes it like another form of firecracker that explodes to make noise. They are not using it for themselves but they are abusing it by causing disturbance to others.

I had to end this as soon as I can.

Opening the inventory of my character in the Alternate World, I pull out one of the masks that I don't usually use. A black mask that covers my whole face and only my eyes can be seen. I made this mask in case my wolf mask is something I won't be using and I needed to avoid much detection.

Now that I am good to go. I reinforced myself by buffing all of my parameters, both the offense and defense. I don't need any fancy magic spells to subdue them, pure force is enough.

Positioning myself, I took a little bit of emulation in my mind to see whether what I will be doing is viable enough. Once that is good enough, time to perform the act.

The second the guy making the [Decoy Bomb] made its little move, I took action and jump from the rooftop, down to him. He was not expecting me to fall down to his body, causing him to collapse immediately, and fell unconscious as a result.

All of them were shocked and couldn't process what happened after I appeared and the guy who was all smug earlier is already lying on the ground with his face planted on the ground. I also took advantage of their shock to continue disabling them all. Using the momentum of my fall, I jumped once more and kicked the first guy who is the nearest to me and knocked him out too before going to the person next to him by grabbing his collar and pulling him down before smacking his face and causing him to lose consciousness.

The remaining delinquent started screaming and was about to flee but my reflexes are much faster and are much faster than how fast he was about to flee and easily caught him. Before he can plead for his life, I hit the back of his neck causing him to collapse.

I took a short work of disabling all of them, and that is a good thing. With all of them currently out of daylight, my first course of action is now done. Time to move to the second operation and that is to remove the Aether's presence in the area.

Focusing on myself, I started absorbing the pure mana which is now the Aether to myself. A beginner who doesn't know how to utilize the Aether will get injured as a result so a total amateur should not be doing this but because I am no longer an amateur on this little task, it's a trivial matter to me.

In a matter of minutes, the rainbow particles in the air slowly began to fade as I absorbed them slowly but surely. It was a blessing for me to absorb an aether without much problem. This increased my mana capacity and with its pureness of it, it's not just my mana that increased but my magic power as well.

With the deed done, I dragged the unconscious guys to the side and let them lean on the wall while they are unconscious and allowed them to sleep a little bit longer so that they will think it was just a big dream they had.

Now that the Aether has been absorbed, time to make my escape and faded into the darkness. Who knows if someone else is watching me at the moment, it's better to do this to avoid my tracks from being traced.