Kael's shock lasted only a heartbeat.
His body melted into the shifting shadows of the corridor wall, leaving the dissipating blade behind. A voice echoed from everywhere and nowhere, smooth and dripping with false calm. "A spatial jump. A forbidden art. The Azure Snow hides more than frost, it seems."
Lin Tian didn't move. He let his senses expand, the Ice Flame Divine Domain stretching from him in an invisible sphere. The fractured walls resisted, the illusionary stone pushing back against his reality. He felt the cold kiss of the labyrinth's magic, and the hotter, sharper presence of a predator hiding within it.
There.
A ripple in the darkness to his left, a subtle wrongness in the flow of shadows.
