"No way…"
The words barely managed to make it out of Fritz's mouth. His eyes widened, taking in the impossible.
Yet, there was no time to lament.
It seemed like the world had stopped for a second before time resumed. A deafening rupture rolled across the sea, a pressure wave so massive that it seemed to crush the air itself before exploding outward in all directions.
The ocean beneath him convulsed, water buckling as massive waves started to form in all directions.
"Brace—!" one of the dwarves shouted.
But it was too late.
The wave hit him like a battering ram. Fritz felt himself lifted clean off the water, his body hurled sideways as the current slammed into him with all its force. The dwarves were ripped from where they treaded water, swallowed by it all.
Salt filled his mouth again as he was driven under, not downward this time…but backward.
