I exhaled sharply, lungs burning from exertion, and launched myself toward the beast's broken body.
Mid-air, I raised my hand. My will surged outward.
Essence, thick and charged, churned to life around me. I seized it.
"Absolute Fire"
The raw Essence responded in an instant, boiling into a crimson blaze. A swirling inferno coiled around my arm, and then—
I unleashed it.
A beam of fire roared down, a spiraling jet that screamed like a dragon. It struck the beast's broken form with a deafening impact, setting the ground ablaze. The flames didn't just burn, they consumed.
I didn't stop.
More Essence surged through my channels. The fire intensified, forming a blazing pillar that pushed me higher into the air just from its recoil. I hovered above the inferno, suspended by the backlash of raw force and heat.
Below, the beast writhed. Its once-thick armor began to melt, green liquid bubbling and evaporating into noxious black smoke.
