Inside and outside the Alchemy Institute, all places were affected; hundreds of thousands, even millions of people seemed to have been cast with an Immobilization Spell at the same moment, fixed in place, unable to move.
Their bodies couldn't move. Yet, their minds remained clear; they could see and speak, but could not move.
"What's happening? I can't move!"
"Me neither!"
"Me too!"
"Are we being controlled?"
"I don't know, but apart from being unable to move, there seems to be nothing else amiss."
"We can see, we can talk."
Outside the large Mystic Light Mirror, streets, taverns, and tea stalls were crowded with people, all shocked by their current predicament. Some still maintained their fleeing poses, looking peculiar and amusing.
Outside the small Mystic Light Mirror, Pill Masters of the Alchemy Institute stayed frozen in their previous actions, their expressions filled with terror.
