Their first day in Hoyfield was spent establishing themselves. They watched as the city around them rapidly transformed as more and more people started earning enough contribution points to lease land from Morgan Horace. Of course, there were a few dissidents who thought they could get away without paying anything, but people quickly learned why Morgan had been so lackadaisical with security.Anyone who tried to skirt the rules found that their houses randomly disappeared around them. A few people had gotten the memo then, and quietly started paying the fees. Most of them, however, had stormed towards Morgan’s castle and demanded that their missing property be returned.Arthur could sympathise with them—portable houses cost a lot—but when they were given the opportunity to buy their property back for a mere 300 contribution points, all the air was taken out of their sails. At least for those with any sense. The remaining agitators, however, were looking for a fight. Righteous indignation quickly shifted to provocative belligerence. It was only then that Hoyfield's defensive systems acted against people. Arthur had to commend Morgan’s restraint. This time, it was the troublemakers who suddenly disappeared, the rank 5 grand formation embedded beneath the citadel's bedrock teleporting them all beyond its borders. From there, they were denied re-entry, and even the most foolish agitators knew they were in over their heads. However much they’d been paid to get in Morgan’s way, at least Arthur hoped they’d been paid to act like idiots; it wasn’t worth losing their lives. It was during his next lesson with Cyprus that Arthur learned exactly what had happened. Runes, when grouped together in large enough quantities, were called formations. Something that operated on a city as large as Hoyfield had to be rank 3 at least, and going by the way it had overwhelmed the defences of multiple people simultaneously and teleported them against their will, (...)