All the elders were rooted in their place in fear.
That was not possible. How did he make it out alive? And how did he survive for this long put here?
As the fire closed in on them, sweat started flowing down their face as the temperature in the surroundings rose.
When the fire was a few inches away, they closed their eyes and braced themselves for the attack to hit.
However, no matter how much they waited, nothing happened. Slowly, they opened their eyes to look at where the attack should have been.
But there was nothing there, they were even about to think of it all as an illusion and that he was really dead.
Before they could, however, they saw a wind barrier surrounding them in a dome shape, and beyond the barrier stood Zed.
Fares had pulled up that barrier, and to make sure that it will not spread the fire, he removed the oxygen content of the air currents coming and going to and from it.