Was a warning during that kind of abrupt turn really what Carpenter needed?
She could tell from the conversation between Russell and their teacher Gilbert that both of them thought there was nothing wrong with operating a flying craft that way.
It was the classic case of, "I can do it, so I may as well."
They had never considered how much the onlookers suffered... such as the people aboard the nearby flying craft, who had been just as terrified.
The only reason those people had not started cursing was that they did not dare... even Advanced Magi might not dare say anything unpleasant to Gilbert, let alone the Mid-Rank Magi around them. They were still counting on Gilbert to protect them if anything happened!
Whatever might have gone wrong with Mage Aislin, she had still acted responsibly when drawing up the initial roster, assigning the spaces near the Seventh-Circle Magi to Mid-Rank Magi in the Rute Faction who had no one backing them... the Low-Rank Magi in the Mage Tower's Inner Ring were still attached to their own teachers and did not need her to arrange anything for them.
Someone like Gilbert, who had reached the seventh circle and still had so few people around him, was rare.
So those badly frightened Mages had neither the courage nor the standing to fall out with Gilbert. Even if he scared them half to death, all they could do was talk themselves into accepting it.
Carpenter pressed her forehead and tried to speak as calmly as possible. "But, Russell, the people piloting those ships beside us don't know how incredibly precise your control over your mental power is.
"If they tried to fly like that, they would definitely crash into someone else.
"You understand that, don't you?
"It's just like learning