Volcanus saw them escape and something shifted in his expression. The fury that had been burning steadily in his eyes sharpened into something colder and more focused. He had unleashed a spell capable of erasing mountains and the human had walked out of it carrying his people on his back. That was not something Volcanus had anticipated and the fact of it sat badly with him.
He did not wait. He moved immediately and gave chase, his massive frame cutting through the air with purpose.
Ethan threw the group clear of the immediate area and turned around to close the distance again.
His mind was already calculating as he moved forward. That scale of attack, the sheer energy Volcanus had poured into the Primordial Conflagration, it had to have cost him something significant. No spell of that magnitude came without a price and Ethan had felt the drop in Volcanus' aura pressure in the moments after the blast even through the chaos of escaping it.
