The fire was unnatural, and it wasn't just about its shape.
Despite having retreated outside the fire's theoretical range, Liam still felt powerful heat waves landing on his face, drying up his eyes, and threatening to burn his hair.
After working with the alchemical flame for months on end, Liam was basically an expert on that element, so it only took him an instant to accept that nothing about that development was normal.
Nevertheless, there lay the problem. Anastasia might have caused that widespread and intense event through her Qi, but its usage had been random and wanton, featuring none of the precision martial arts demanded.
And the flames kept expanding, flowing past the trunks they failed to burn completely to cover more of the soil and air, behaving like a fiery lake that was still discovering its boundaries.
'So cool,' Liam couldn't help but gasp internally, but his feet still moved, the event unable to stun him when he had far bigger issues at hand.
