Screams erupted through the ruins, the remaining knights scattering as the sand exploded around them, another blast ripping through the dust to tear a second knight to pieces before he could draw his weapon.
Nobody knew where the attacks were coming from, the panic rising fast in the open sand, Hajin rolled away from a flaring red light under his own boots.
He activated his Divine Eye, his vision shifting to show the gray world with glowing red threads of magic stretching across the ruins. Following the threads back to their source, he spotted a stone statue shaped like a dog sitting atop a nearby wall, its eyes glowing with the same crimson light.
He sprang forward, launching himself toward the wall with his sword drawn, swinging the blade down at the statue's head with all his weight.
A barrier of red mana flared around the statue, deflecting his sword with a metallic clang, the impact sending him flying backward through the air.
