The crowd<em>definitely</em>stopped, more in shock than anything else, as he teleports the object away, before resuming, even more loudly. The main protest was that they wanted to examine what it was, that just flattened everything in a several mile radius; a couple of the representatives were of local deities, who were, understandably, quite upset at the loss of followers. Others merely wanted to know what it was that could have caused this much devastation, and the gnomes, seeing the technological marvel, wanted to dissect it and study it, much the way Draiss succeeded.