The crimson-and-black wave crashed across the top floor of the shattered skyscraper.
The concrete floor, the titanium load-bearing pillars, and the thousands of shattered mirror fragments dissolved into nothingness as the wave passed over them.
Hide crossed both arms before his chest His draconic scales hardened into dense, obsidian plates across his skin, forming an overlapping carapace thicker than ever before.
Yet, the moment the waves brushed his guard, Hide's scales fractured like dried leaves.
A concussive, ungodly shockwave drove him straight through the ceiling, throwing him out of the tower into the open, smog-choked sky.
He spun through the air, coughing up a mouthful of blood that instantly evaporated in the heat of Odo's aura. His newly healed right shoulder screamed in agony as hairline fractures spiderwebbed across his collarbone.
'I am a S-Rank...' Hide thought, his teeth gritted. 'And I couldn't even deflect a single casual wave?!'
