Up there in the air, Caelem's velocity increased and he descended like a falling meteor. The wind pressure alone made Lancet's uniform snap against his chest. His hair whipped backward, but right in time, he activated Thor's Thunder Step.
Blue-white lightning crackled up from his calves to his thighs, and Lancet vanished with the sudden speed of light.
He blitzed diagonally left and forward, appearing like a bolt of human-shaped electricity leaving afterimages burning in the air.
One instant he was directly under the strike, staring up at danger. The next he was twenty feet to the left, boots skidding across cracked marble, white sparks still dancing off his shoulders.
Lancet smiled. Using Thunder Step always made him feel like some kind of super speedster.
Where he had been standing earlier erupted outward in a radial explosion. Caelem's gigantic fist slammed into the floor like a siege hammer wielded by a giant.
