All Yunfeng could hear was Shao's voice cutting through the smoke.
"RUN! Everyone—run!!"
Then the thunderous sound of something huge crashing through debris echoed across the alleyway.
The ground beneath him trembled violently with every step the massive creature took. Each thud made his bones rattle. Yunfeng gasped, scrambling to climb out of the collapsed rubble—but pain shot through his leg.
"Ah—damn it!" he hissed.
His leg was pinned tightly between two slabs of broken concrete. He pulled, once, twice—nothing. Only pain. The more he tried to yank himself free, the deeper it seemed to wedge.
Frustrated, panicked, he clenched his teeth and focused.
A burst of fire flared around his hand, and he laid it directly onto the rubble. Stone hissed and sizzled, turning molten under the heat of his power. The acrid smoke filled his lungs as he pushed the red-hot debris away from his leg, wincing as the skin on his shin scalded from the rising heat.
Finally—he was free.
