The silence inside the cavern did not last for long as the dark mana in the surroundings gathered within Hide's chest and violently detonated.
The air turned pitch-black and the draconic scales covering his arms, neck, and face bristled like sharpened iron spikes. His ocean-blue eyes had vanished completely, drowned beneath twin vortexes of unbridled hatred.
"DIE!"
Reality tore apart across where Hide stood.
BOOM!
The cavern floor disintegrated beneath his boots as he crossed thirty yards in a zero-second blur. He bypassed the distance entirely, slamming both scaled fists straight into the center of the four-armed sand avatar's chest.
Abyssal HellFlame!
A cataclysmic torrent of dark, mana-devouring fire exploded outward from his knuckles. The heat was so incomprehensibly intense that it vaporized the sand avatar, turning hundreds of tons of loose earth into glowing, shattered glass before blowing a fifty-foot crater straight through the subterranean foundation.
