The pale fire scorched the exposed skin of the mages, their once normal skin now fissured, revealing grotesque wounds beneath where their blood boiled and was devoured by the flames.
The flames burned quietly as if the mages were nothing but firewood, sustaining a bonfire.
It must be excruciating torture, Lu Ban thought. The expressions on the mages' faces were even more terrifying than those of the demonic beasts, conveying the fear of humans who had been ravaged by extreme pain. Their limbs trembled ceaselessly, and the flames seemed to burst forth from inside them, pouring out of their wounds and igniting between their bones.
Lu Ban had seen documentaries featuring people wrapped in flames, dying in agony. In reality, many didn't actually die from the burning itself; rather, it was suffocation from the lack of oxygen that killed them before they were burned alive.
