The explosion hadn't even settled when I moved.
I pushed off the broken floor and burst out of the collapsing structure, debris still falling around me as I stepped into the open street, my body already shifting into motion before my mind could fully process the situation. The air outside felt different now as if the entire city had turned its focus toward me, and I didn't need the distant shouts to know I was already surrounded.
I tried to move. Tried to push into a sprint but the space ahead of me twisted.
Black smoke gathered mid-air, folding inward, and in the next instant three figures stepped out of it, their forms stabilizing as the smoke dispersed around them. They simply appeared, already positioned and blocking every direction I could take.
I stopped.
My eyes flicked between them.
[Believer Gin – Level 85] [Believer Gin – Level 85] [Believer Gin – Level 90]
"…You've got to be kidding me," I muttered under my breath.
