Jack should not have survived the initial salvo. The human should be ash. This should have been a simple execution.
A demonstration of draconic superiority that would echo through the continental kingdoms for centuries.
Instead, the Herald was watching his elite interceptor unit become a compressed cluster of pinned, panicked dragons whose centuries of training offered absolutely no protection against a force that operated at a fundamental level of magical theory.
Before the Herald could even issue a counter-command to abort the engagement, something else occurred.
Jack vanished.
He did not visibly retreat from the battlefield, nor did he attempt to escape. He vanished from his previous location. One moment, he was there, calmly engaging Oscar, and the next, he was absent.
