"What... is going on?"
Right now, never mind the Long-lived Species—even Marshall was utterly dumbfounded.
The two groups simply stared at each other.
As they faced one another in bewilderment, not a single person made a move.
"Ah~~ this~~ was just a little experiment I suddenly thought of."
Lan Qingyou broke the somewhat awkward atmosphere for her.
She raised her little hand slightly and looked at Marshall with a very "sorry" little expression.
"Uh... an experiment?"
Marshall stared blankly at Lan Qingyou.
At a time like this, in a place like this, you were telling him this was an experiment?
And one you had thought up on the spur of the moment?
Though he knew that alchemists all took experiments very seriously.
And he also knew that witches were obsessed with research.
He truly had not expected anyone to be so unrestrained as to conduct an impromptu experiment on an occasion like this.
"You... what did you experiment with?"
Marshall could not make sense of it.
"Nothing much. I just suddenly thought—if someone released their own mana first when activating the Mana Disruption Device."
"Wouldn't that mean what the other side was disrupting wasn't the mana originally in the air?"
"But mana mixed with my own mana?"
"If that were the case, then I could completely control the mana I released as well."
"That would create a very contradictory space."
"On one side was chaotic mana, and on the other was chaos that could be controlled."
"And so."
"Something incredible happened."
Lan Qingyou clapped her hands.
"Amid that chaos, my own control just happened to neutralize the disorder."
"Not only could it keep everyone from feeling the effects of mana disruption even while mana was in a state of chaos."
"I could even control the extent of that chaos, as