The mayor walked up to one of the guards standing at attention. He gave a quick look around at the people standing behind the guards before speaking.
"What am I working with here."
In full seriousness, the guard replied.
"Unknown, most likely a magical interference or energy displacement. Even summoning and teleportation is on the table."
"Hmm… in that case." The mayor went silent into thinking.
He turned back and looked at his secretaries for a moment before continuing on.
"Check to see exactly what is occurring."
"On it.", " Will do.", "right away." The three secretary's therapy behind them replied.
Those three then in turn look back at the secretaries behind them acting as their assistants. Each pulling out contraption and measuring readings and data sets that periodically flash in the components.
"Do they speak our language? If not then are they from a different nationality?" The mayor asked another guard nearby.
"From my observation, we can conclude they at least recognize and understand our language. As for speaking, although they might not represent the majority, there is indeed a minority who speak our language." The guard replied.
"Okay, I can work with that. Just need to-"
"Found it."
The mayor did not get to finish his sentence before one of his secretaries voice attracted his attention.
"This is the combination of summoning and Space-time alteration."
"Summoning and Space-time alteration huh? Now… That is unique. Got any details as to how and why?"
The secretary looked back at the mayor and slightly shook her head before replying.
" your answer as to why is just as good as mine. As for how…"
She takes a moment to gather her breath before speaking.
"Nothing concrete, just a lot of guesswork but… either there are hundreds of people here with the specific extraordinary talent to alter space, and hundreds more with an equally extraordinary talent to bend time, Working together with experts or pioneers in the summoning field to create a portal to our location. Additionally, the reason for having so many people most likely is because these people must have used some kind of technique or spell to draw upon all their strength to complete the portal."
The secretary paused, unsure in her voice as he spoke the second part.
"That, or on the other hand… One insanely powerful being pulled them from wherever they were to now here."
"…"
That was a brief moment in silence as everyone let that sink in.
"Well, nothing will be achieved if we just stand here."
The mayor turned around faced the crowd of people again. Slowly walking in their direction.
"If we want answers, then why not get it straight from the horse's mouth. Although it might not be completely truthful. As long as there is an 'intense conversation' there will be an 'intense answer' at the end of it."
No sooner than he spoke…
Did something happened.
As if an invisible curtain of heavy air had suddenly displaced the current air in the area. Everyone felt like they couldn't breathe, struggling to stand straight as pressure on their body reached levels found only by scuba divers venturing into the deepest and darkest parts of an ocean. Where light gives way and darkness reigns.
Expecting an easy intimidation became in vain however, as it became all for naught when only about 500 hundred have fallen.
Impressive yes.
Yet insignificant in the grand scale of things, not when compared to the 5000 present.
Made worse when suddenly nearly a 500 people unleashed their own pressure. Unleashing varying amounts of their own power to the surprise looks of the guards and secretaries. Clearly, those with real strengths that can threaten the guards are not among the people who had fallen by their hand. Content to restrain themselves to order.
But that is not all, The situation became all the more dire when several dozens of people started to emit a pressure far stronger than anything that the mayor can fully release.
"Well, this just got a whole lot more complicated. But I suppose it is my fault for opening the can of worms." The mayor said while having a wry grin.