The ground shifted beneath their feet.
And didn't stop.
Without warning, the streets tilted upward at steep angles, forcing them to climb up.
The area trembled after they reached the top.
"Watch out!" Rika called while pointing above them.
A cracking sound echoed out.
And then rubble began falling from a broken tower that hung frozen mid-collapse. The chunks of black stone and twisted metal rained down toward their position. Reinhard's vision blurred for a split second.
"Alice, three steps left!"
She moved immediately, and the massive stone crashed down where she'd been standing moments before. A cloud of dust and smaller debris rose up, but they kept running while dodging falling pieces with Reinhard and Rika telling them where to go.
A building on their right began to collapse inward, and the entire structure groaned with the sound of breaking stone. Louis rushed to the left, leading them down a different street, but the collapse was spreading and catching up to them.
