Among everyone on the scene, only Grace could make some sense of what had happened, but its execution still took her by surprise, both for its contents and because she had been unable to keep up with it.
Because Grace knew which martial arts Liam possessed, she was the only one who glanced to her left, where he had once been. A deep footprint had replaced him, with spiderwebs of cracks all around it.
That deep mark confirmed the answer Grace had already guessed. That was the rank 3 Defying Stomp, the movement-oriented technique from the Archbishop's inheritance.
Refocusing on Liam showed a confusing detail. Grace had seen that knife, sort of. She had witnessed Liam storing it in a container full of yellow powder a few times, but it had been a rank 1 item back then. Instead, it was undoubtedly a rank 2 weapon now.
