"Stop!" Ben shouted as he tightly grabbed my hand to prevent me from running up the stairs.
"What!" I yelled at him angrily.
"Don't you see Rika?" Ben pointed out a thick fog of mist covering about two worth floors of stairs.
"We can just use mana to create an air barrier to push through it?" I answered Ben's worries like they were unfounded in the first place.
"You haven't noticed yet, have you Rika?" Ben asked me while he sighed in disappointment.
"This place is a research center," Ben shrugged like I was helpless child who didn't know anything.
'Umm, so what?' I glanced at Ben to continue to explain he meant.
"Ben means that research centers are highly volatile and unpredictable since they develop strange mechanisms and devices," Shelly explained on Ben's behalf.
'Weren't resear
