Adrian's attack... had left a crater where he was.
Mine... opened a huge rift that ran the length of the street. A rift that seemed to go up into the sky, heating everything it touched to thousands of degrees.
I moved slowly, toward the end of the street I had destroyed with my own hands.
I had already deactivated my ascension skills, keeping them on any longer after that attack... wouldn't have been good for my body anyway.
And it already wasn't.
The moment I stop using caora, I'll collapse. Caora is the only reason I can walk like this, the only reason I can stand painlessly. Maybe I'll even faint right away, who knows.
All I know is that the moment I release the caora, nothing good will happen.
I squinted, stopped, and then looked at the figure lying motionless on the ground. I had restrained myself a lot so that my attack wouldn't kill him. I had distributed all the sharpness around instead of him, for example.
And... he had actually managed not to die.
