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“Igarashi,” Prudence said “Don’t”

“Soets killed,” Herald said, as the enorreater swells approaching the jetty as the bizarre duel continued “This ends now”

He fell to one knee, slaloreathing his skin pulsed once, then vanished as Herald unleashed the full fury of his , and terrifying The waves stopped in place, as if halted in tie area of it close to where Herald touched, was chilling at a treht of his power Herald was freezing the ocean

And it didn’t take very long for the only two people left in the water to feel the effects Sheets of liquid e from the man’s hand froze and splintered in , translucent cocoon around Scylla’s tentacles She screaed, her eyes filled with venom as she stared at the bronzed man, then at Herald

Herald glared back at her, lifting his chin in defiance The battle was over, sure, but at what cost? Soe, excited eyes held his phone in Herald’s face “Wow Are you some kind of superhero?”

Prudence closed her fingers around thethe device into a twisted lass “No superheroes here, buddy Show’s over”

The man stared at his e over his features, htened

“Great,” I said “Now if you could just go around the entire beach and destroy every cellphone in sight, then that would be perfect”

Prudence glowered Just behind her, Mason shrugged, then sauntered up to the nearest nor it into the ocean I ht?

“We’ll deal with the fallout later,” Herald said “What ht”

The sound of cracking ice surged across the frozen water Scylla shouted as her tentacles broke free “It has begun,Don’t say that the Great Beasts only stood by” She threw the silver-haired lare, then sank into the icy water

The , too, that e The sun was setting above us, casting a fiery orange glow across the ice The spires and points of frozen waves looked like flaht It only

“Dustin Graves,” he booht it rumor, hearsay, but noe have proof that you, in your hubris, have thought to consort with the Great Beasts, the harbingers of the apocalypse” He pointed directly atYou will pay for your transgressions”

With the sa the entire surface of the lake-sized area Herald had single-handedly frozen The ground treered away, his ht of his handiwork s

“The gods are watching, Dustin Graves,” the h to see our justice”