Chapter 52: Cooperation (8)

Billy sighed in relief because he knew that while he could protect himself from killing the girl, the fireball would explode anyway and kill many of the elementalists while gravely injuring others. He made a mistake in taunting the girl…

"I guess this is your loss," Billy shrugged. "In any case, instead of telling me what you don't understand I want you to show me Zen in action."

The girl thought that she would be punished in some way and was ready to beg to let her family out of that. Still, then she heard something unbelievable… no one aside from the most powerful and skilled members of her tribe knew about that skill. It was impossible that others knew that… even those who had the skill and lost battles fought until their deaths to keep that as a secret.

"What is wrong?" Billy asked. "Show me Zen."