CHAPTER 210 — THE SKY BREAKS
The emerald glow grew brighter.
It spread through the Jade Dragon's throat like liquid lightning, swirling into a vortex of destructive power that distorted the air around its jaws. The pressure alone pushed the Eight backward through the sky.
Below them—
The hospital district had descended into chaos.
Doctors shouted instructions across crowded emergency tents. Nurses rushed stretchers toward the few entrances still intact in the damaged medical towers. Ambulances struggled to move through streets clogged with civilians trying to escape.
Some patients could not move.
They lay strapped to portable beds beneath temporary floodlights.
Oxygen tanks.
IV lines.
Machines keeping fragile lives balanced between minutes and eternity.
And above them—
A dragon prepared to erase everything.
The emerald vortex expanded further.
The Jade Dragon's wings spread slowly as it aimed its jaws toward the center of the field hospital in the city park.
