A Man Like None Other (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 5810

Yvette's gift lay with shadows. In this realm of searing light, her talent shrank to nothing. Only the sliver of celestial power Jared had slipped into her veins earlier kept her heart from stalling outright.

Around them, the rest of the Myriad Beast Sect looked defeated. Eagle clansmen watched their own feathers curl to charcoal. Tiger youths' fur became charred. Snake-blooded novices listened to their scales crack open like old pottery. Choked groans rolled through the troop, one after another, the mournful rhythm of an army tossed alive into a smelter.

Clara might be a disciple of Reiner and practiced a top flame-type technique, but due to the injury she suffered, her meridians were thin ice under a torrent of lava. Pale as bleached parchment, she shook and coaxed her art into motion, each cycle buying only another moment before annihilation.

Despair enveloped them yet again. They had outrun pursuit, crossed into a sanctuary whispered of in legends, only to discover the sanctuary itself eager to burn them down.

Death stood one step away, its hot breath already licking their souls.

"Calm down."

The words drifted clear and bell-bright, yet they carried authority that silenced pain itself. It pierced scorched ears, rang against nearly broken spirits, and nailed every cascading flame in midair.

Jared had spoken. He did not so much as glance at the carnage behind him. He simply lifted one elegant hand toward the tidal world of fire and pressed his fingers down like a painter smoothing canvas.

Nothing exploded. No arc of spell-light shattered the sky. Yet the moment his palm descended, something deeper than power rippled out. A hush of ultimate energy spread from Jared in widening rings, the way a pebble troubles a mirror-still lake—silent, unstoppable, perfect.

This was not cold battling heat. It was a command—an edict from a higher law. Under that whisper of supremacy, the flames bowed, their roar fading to a humble crackle, as if the entire realm had remembered who truly ruled it.

In the span of a single heartbeat, the impossible became real.

From the spot where Jared planted his boots, an unseen radius rolled outward, as though a colossal hand had stroked the very air.

Flames that had moments ago screamed hot enough to melt iron fell silent, tamed, settling at a warmth almost pleasant.

Chaotic tongues of colored fire—once battering everything in their path—lined up like soldiers answering a sovereign call.

The violent impurities were skimmed away, leaving only the gentlest, most refined core of fire-element essence.

Even the blinding glare dimmed, passing through an invisible sieve until the light shone bright yet harmless.

The raw scorch on every skin receded like a tide; lungs that had burned cooled, drawing slow, luxurious breaths.

Wide-eyed, the crowd stared at the neat divide this wonder had carved into the world around them.

Beyond the boundary, the inferno still howled, heat waves twisting the air into a furnace of light and terror.

Inside it, temperate breezes drifted over a pool of mellow aura and gentle radiance—a pocket of paradise.

An invisible frontier separated inferno from oasis as cleanly as knife glass.

Beneath their feet, the dark-red, glassy soil remained, yet its buried fury now purred rather than roared.

Not far away, a fissure—once vaporized by heat—burbled with milky springwater that smelled faintly of wildflowers and cool stone.

I'm an expert at playing with fire.

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