Chapter 648
Just a few dozen meters away, the orange and yellow-cored hunters watch the scene before them unfold.
They're secured behind the heavy silver door in the transparent hallway.
I have a few fractions of a second where I can easily pull out a teleport crystal and make my escape; however, the instant the top of the dome cracks open, my perception is able to seep out much further than before.
I'm able to see past the endless abyss of flames around us.
Every moment that passes, and the dome above opens more, my gaze is able to surge further.
This is exactly what Marcus told me would happen when he described the common protocol for violent deals gone bad, and said even True Cores cannot survive the flames.
My initial hopes were that I would be able to stage an attack and that the wind mage would strike back, allowing me to stage them being struck in vital points and use another teleport crystal to run away and make it seem as if they died from this.
In the confusion of it all, I could have even killed this last yellow core and absorbed even more essence.
However, the order member here was a bit weaker than I predicted.