At the far edge of Umbrasol, beyond the busier streets and the soft noise of daily life, there was a stretch of open land. It was a place people visited sometimes to walk, to sit, or simply to enjoy the quiet away from the central areas.
A low stone path curved gently through the fields, bordered by small patches of grass and young trees that had only recently taken root. A half-built structure stood near the edge of the field.
It had been under construction for days.
Or at least... it should have been.
"That’s... strange."
A worker stood in front of it, scratching his head.
"What is?"
Another man beside him frowned.
"That wall. It had a crack yesterday. I saw it myself."
The first man pointed.
The second man looked at the wall.
It was... straight.
Perfectly straight.
"...Maybe you imagined it."
"I did not imagine it,"
The first man shook his head.
"It was right there—down the middle. Boss pointed it out very specifically, we were going to rebuild that section today."
The second man stepped closer, placing a hand against the stone.
It was... smooth.
It didn’t feel recently repaired or patched.
"Are you... sure?"
He asked with a frown.
Usually, cracks in walls aren’t a big deal, many beings were capable of filling those cracks with their abilities. There were beings in this world who could create matter out of nothing, beings who could create living golems using magic, or metal spikes that could pierce through one’s organs—
With abilities like those in existence, reforming a cracked wall shouldn’t be a big deal.
Or at least, that was the common knowledge, but...
Going by that logic, construction workers shouldn’t be needed, there were beings who could create any structure they wanted with just their mere imaginations almost instantly, what was the point of having workers who took days, months even, to complete their projects?
But...
In reality, there were countless reasons why these workers were needed.
Yes, a structure could be created through magic but... such structures could only be created through matter that a particular being could control or create and that matter might not be the best material for construction.
And even if, in some cases, the material matched, without proper reinforcement and processing of that material, the structure wouldn’t last long. Such buildings would collapse with the slightest impact.
In a world where beings were capable of topping mountains with a simple flick, such structures wouldn’t last, not one bit. Every structure needed reinforcing, reinforcing only such workers could provide.
This was also the reason why these two workers were so surprised, because if the wall was cracked, and if someone had used his ’ability’ to patch that crack and even if they had the ability to control the same material the wall was made of—
Patching it without proper reinforcement, or even with proper reinforcement for that matter, doing it with such precision that the patch wasn’t even visible, even to the workers who had worked with that material... it was... next to impossible.
"Yes! I am sure! Do you truly think I will be wrong abo—"
The first worker was about to answer but just then—
Tak
They heard a voice, the two turned around and their eyes fell on a wooden ladder that was now leaning against the structure and a little boy had started climbing it carefully with a piece of cloth in his hands.
"Hey,"
One of the workers called out.
"Be careful—"
And just as he did—
The boy slipped.
His foot missed the rung, his body tilted sideways—
And then...
He didn’t fall.
For a brief second, his body hung there.
As if... something had corrected the mistake before it could happen.
Then, gently, his foot found the rung again.
He continued climbing.
Like nothing had happened.
The workers stared at the situation and—
"...Did you see that?"
The first one asked and the second one did not reply.
He had no idea what to say.
Not far from there, a woman stood near a water basin, filling a clay container. The water flowed steadily from a carved stone spout but the odd thing was... that the water did not spill.
Even when the container was already full.
The surface rose slightly above the edge, forming a perfect curve, holding itself together without breaking.
The woman blinked.
Then slowly tilted the container, as if trying to test it. The water moved as if it could no longer hold itself together and only then did it spill normally.
"...what happened?"
The woman muttered in confusion as she looked around, trying to find the reason behind it.


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