The Shocked Administrator. Because Desert Oasis had previously been operated by Alisa and the White Witch, it had long since had something like a Magic Protective Shield.
So Lan Qingyou did not think much of it.
But this small town had never had anything similar appear before.
At first, Lan Qingyou had thought it was using some other method.
Only after the protective shield was raised did Lan Qingyou realize that the small town's defenses were actually this crude...
That was right.
In Lan Qingyou's eyes, the protective shield spread over the town below was practically the very image of "crude."
Just by looking with her Magic Eye, Lan Qingyou could clearly see that this protective shield indeed possessed the function of defending against Mana Turbulence and Mana Tide.
But because this protective shield had been made somewhat roughly, it required an enormous amount of mana to operate once raised.
And so it had led to the current situation, where it remained shut when there was no attack.
Only when it suffered an attack or a natural disaster would it be opened.
To put it even more simply, the designer had done it to save energy.
On ordinary days, this protective shield was not activated.
After all, even without disaster-class things like Mana Turbulence and Mana Tide, the Magic Protective Shield would still cause consumption in daily use.
Though the consumption was relatively small.
It was still an expense.
That was why the designer had gone to such lengths to conserve it.
But in Lan Qingyou's eyes, this kind of conservation was exactly what made it crude.
The reason a protective shield was called a protective shield was because it was meant to "protect."
Yet this designer had actually thought about saving resources in a place like this.
Then what