Sylas didn't even use the abilities he was most confident in. These new Skills had hardly been broken out of their seals. Still at Fragmented Mastery, Sylas hadn't felt comfortable or confident enough to use them against the likes of Israeal and the others, so he hadn't brought them out.
But now, as though a child bringing out a new box of toys to play with, he was casually test-driving them on Alex, and yet the latter could hardly seem to keep up at all.
BOOM!
The mountain Alex landed in exploded with a fiery fervor. Smoggy blackness spread out as though from a rapidly burning forest fire. They licked at the world like flames, combusting it to ash as though born from the fires of hell, and yet they carried not the slightest heat at all.
They weren't flames. They were something else entirely.
