I held my breath, didn't move a muscle, and just stood where I was.
The ground shook like an earthquake. An intense, suffocating pressure spread through the atmosphere. I narrowed my eyes and hid my mana, my being. I didn't come out from behind the stone I was hiding behind, I didn't even take my eyes off where I was looking.
'Wait a little longer, Adrian.'
If I hadn't restrained myself, I would have started shaking from breathlessness, from stress. Still, when my life is at stake... There was nothing else I could do.
And so the ground continued to shake. Seconds passed, then minutes. Finally, when the amount of shaking had significantly decreased, I heard a voice in my mind.
'You can come out now, but don't stop paying attention.'
I took a quiet but deep breath, rose slightly from my hiding place, looked into the distance, and focused on one thing in particular.
