The blazing crescent of [Cinder Divide] screamed across the battlefield, tearing a molten trench into the arena as it hurtled toward Alex. Heat shimmered like glass, and the edges of the blast melted stone in its wake, turning solid rock into rivers of glowing slag.
Spectators leaned forward, breath caught in their throats.
Was this a repeat of Vess?
Another combatant swallowed whole by fire?
Like hell it was.
Just before the attack hit, Alex vanished.
FWOOSH!
With a pulse of brown light and a flicker of runes beneath his boots, Alex activated [Terra Phase] and melted into the earth like a ghost.
The fiery guillotine of Malik's attack surged overhead, grazing the stone with apocalyptic fury but striking nothing.
The audience gasped in shock.
The molten crescent screamed forward, its heat warping the very air, its core a blinding mass of white-orange light that melted everything in its path. The arena floor split, stone boiling into slag as the wave surged toward the edge.
