The flames still roared from the restored moment of time.
Dust hit the ground.
Breaths resumed.
Hearts beat once.
But only for three seconds.
Then, Algreth exhaled. It was a ponderous, ragged breath that groaned across the arena. "No... Halt!"
Time exhaustively shattered for the second time. But before, it was a simple, clean halt. Now, it was cataclysmic ferocity.
CRACK-ZZZT!!
The stadium froze, petrified again. The crowd halted clutching their hearts in anticipation and fear. The roaring fire stopped, but the actual shape of the flames had suddenly changed in the meantime the world got unfrozen. It was a skewering wall of heat changing rapidly as if reality simply couldn't decide how the fire should look anymore.
Solid stone cracked stentoriously with heavy impact in the frozen world, after unfreezing and then again rapidly freezing by Algreth's desperate command.
