The Favoured Son of Heaven

Culprit

The masked woman clicked her tongue in annoyance. She had been tricked by the boy and was now standing on a movement restriction formation.

There were many kinds of formations. The basic ones required the Mage to draw the circles and diagrams of the formation along with runes. This was a very tiring process as the drawn formation had to be inch perfect. If there was a lopsided circle, a wrong rune or any outside interference, the rune was bound to spoil.

There was another type though which belonged to the rich and elite. This was called an irregular formation. Thus, the formation has already been made and the only thing a person needed to do was to get someone to activate the properties by stepping on it.

In terms of space or coverage area, hand drawn formations were the best. Some could span as wide as 100 meters.

Irregular formations though were movable and had less chance of failing as the formation had already been made expertly.

Chief Hector had long noticed the signal and be