"Spirit Art, Inferno Technique, Sequence #1: Eternal Conflagration!"
Primordial fire erupted throughout the chamber—not flames that could be extinguished or adapted to, but the fundamental concept of combustion made inescapable reality. Everything within the Technique's radius began burning with fire that would continue regardless of circumstances or resistance.
The three Tier 6 Dwellers ignited simultaneously.
How could they not?
This was a genuine Sequence 1 Technique.
Their Chaos nature provided initial resistance, but Sequence #1 Techniques operated on conceptual rather than physical levels. This wasn't heat that could be nullified or entropy that could be reversed—this was the definition of burning imposed on reality itself.
But they weren't finished.
