Max felt his heart shiver.
This was too overwhelming, but he knew he couldn't afford to be distracted because whatever it was, it was going to arrive in the next few seconds.
Immediately, he tapped on his Nascent Energy reserves and started pulling it out of himself without holding anything back. At the same time, he looked at Kriss and Pauline. Seeing they seemed to be in a daze and were unsteadily swaying on their feet, his expression fell.
"COME TO ME!"
He shouted at the top of his lungs while trying to inject some Nascent Energy into his voice to help them come to their senses quicker. Unfortunately, he wasn't a Sound Elemental mage, nor had he ever tried doing so before, so he failed.
His expression worsened.
He had already pulled out some Nascent Energy. If he were to move over to them, he would lose control over at least half of it.
However… seeing his shout wasn't effective, he had no choice unless he wanted to see them die.
Swoosh!