The many leaders were surprisingly quiet, not even moving around their papers and tools in front of them to fully focus on what Ning was telling them.
Ning proposed to everyone to let them teach two magic circles.
One would be the magic circle that defends, and another a magic circle that lets them teleport.
For the defense one, everyone would get the exact same magic circles. However, for the teleportation one, each and everyone would have to be different due to the distance between the two magic circles.
Ning started by telling them about the first one.
"I will provide you with a better image later," Ning said. "For now, all you have to remember is that you will have to draw this around the place where you will want it to be defended by an outside force."
"The one I'm giving you will defend against any attack or stop any non-human with a magic core in them. Meaning, it will stop most of the beasts that can come out of a dungeon break," Ning said. "Of course, that also means it cannot protect those that do not have any mana cores in them, but those beasts are usually easy to defend against."
A few people raised their hands to ask a question. "Yes," Ning said, pointing to one of the people who raised their hands.
"Can this thing attack that which enters it, or is this just normal protection?" the person asked.
"It won't attack anything," Ning said. "But it will suppress whatever that manages to enter it, which will give you an easier time against that thing."
"Can we not have one that attacks?" another person asked. "That seems more useful, especially in the absence of hunters and apostles."
"You could, but I'm not going to," Ning said. "The amount of mana used to run this thing is not small. Adding offensive capabilities to such a thing would make it almost impossible to run."
"Just this small one under my feet has already dried up quite a bit of mana in the room. A few more attacks and this will stop working. To make it work more efficiently, I would have to drop a few mana cores onto it."
"Similarly, the ones you will be getting will require a lot of mana to run, which I don't expect the city you will be drawing it around to have. In that instance, you will have to use S-rank or higher-ranked mana stones to power it. The stronger the mana stones you will use, the stronger the defense will be."
"Also, these symbols you see here, all work together to give you defensive capabilities. The more of these symbols here, the more defensive. However, if you somehow start removing it for offensive symbols, you will lessen its defensive power," Ning said.
"Also, I'm worried you people will learn how to use the offensive symbols to create your own circle. I don't trust you enough to hand you over such destructive abilities," he added.
The various world leaders that got those words translated for them gave awkward looks around. The smaller ones were glad that there was nothing offensive about it at all, and the bigger ones were angry that they weren't getting it.
In their minds, the best form of defense was the threat of retaliation. For a very long time, that had been the nuclear weapons. However, now that dungeons and hunters were a thing, they were far more fearful of those.
Especially the Apostles.
Once he was done explaining the defensive magic circle, he gave a brief explanation of how the teleportation circle worked and how they could use it.
"I will hand over the exact circles you will have to draw in various major cities of your country," Ning said. "For now, this is it. Does anyone have any questions?"
Almost all of the world leaders wanted to speak. Ning sighed silently and pointed to one of the closer ones to him.
The world leader there started speaking, and Ning got the question translated to him by his ring.
"Do you really have the power of 5 gods?" the leader was asking.
"That has nothing to do with the meeting today. Please stay on topic," Ning said and pointed to someone else.
"Where have you been all this time? Were you made into an Apostle recently?" the person asked.
Ning couldn't help but feel slightly angry at the question.
"If you do not have anything else to ask about then please don't ask," Ning said. "I just want questions about the magic—"
A barrier suddenly appeared in front of him, while a massive fire bombarded him where he stood.
People cried out in fear and the apostles moved to protect their leaders from falling debris.
Ely and the rest were going to move to help, but Ning's voice entered their head, telling them not to help him, but instead get these people out of there.
Their Qi covered everyone from the falling debris as the building came crashing down from the fiery blast from outside.
The barrier Ning was standing in was broken long ago, but he wasn't hurt despite that. His clothes were a little singed on the edges, but he came out of the fire otherwise okay.
He looked at the woman that was flying on top of him, a woman with black hair that was completely uncombed, a white dress that was burnt for the most part, and a crazy smile on her face.
"Who are you?" Ning asked with an angry look on his face. The girl giggled when she heard that and Ning saw something that made him feel weird.
'Is that… a straight-jacket?'
The white clothes she was wearing were torn and burnt remains of a straight jacket, judging by the many straps on it.
Then, he looked at the woman with her crazy smile.
"Oh, hell no," he said as he looked at the woman, who was clearly a mental patient of some sort. "Someone actually gave you their power to come to disturb me?"
