Ren took a step forward... directly toward the flames.
A collective gasp arose from the stands.
"Has he gone mad?!" exclaimed Roran, rising from his seat.
But just when it seemed Ren would throw himself directly into the fire, he executed a fast jump to his right and slightly upward, rotating in the air with a spatial maneuver that Lin had taught him during their intense training sessions.
In what felt like a long succession of events but had taken only an instant, Ren had approached to reduce the cone's effective area and launched himself outside the attack from the side where he had detected the greatest weakness in the mana pattern...
Ron's left hand.
Ren landed just two meters from his opponent, closer than the salamander boy would have wanted any opponent to be.
