The world blurred, my vision tunneling as I locked onto the stage.
Mara was being dragged up those stone steps like a lamb to slaughter, the cult leader's hand pressed against her, his sickening smile carved into his face as he mused himself with all of the chaos going on around him.
Everything else ceased to exist. The screams, the fires, the spells detonating in the sky. It all faded into the background, drowned beneath the deafening roar of my own blood pounding through my ears. The last thread of restraint snapped, and I moved.
[Shadow Dance Activated.]
[Mana: 80/100]
The world flickered as I reappeared behind the first cultist in my path. My dagger whispered through flesh, severing the tendons at the back of his knee before I plunged the blade into his spine. He hit the ground with a gurgled cry, but I was already gone, stepping out of the shadows behind the next one. I ripped through them like leaves in the wind.
