A loud explosion, which seemed to rock the entire earth around them, shattered the bedrock wall of the cave.

The mage who had cast the fiery magic collapsed as the spell had drained him of all his mana.

The gnoll we were fighting was screaming in pain as the hot flames burned his body before the ceiling above him collapsed and buried his body.

"Jared!", Nalia yelled as she saw the boy topple over. She rushed to his side as large chunks of rock scattered in every direction from the volatile explosion.

Matthew lifted his shield to block a giant boulder which was propelled forward by the explosion. The impact numbed his arms as they took the full blow of force as it impacted his shield. It pushed him back several feet but i held on as behind me a dark cliff loomed into the dark below.

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Luckily he stopped just a few inches away from the edge with the giant boulder in front of me.

As he peeked past the rock in front of him, he saw that Nalia was healing the scratches on her arms from the fight we had with the gnoll and the impact of rocks from the explosion. Jared hovered on the edge of consciousness as the backlash of running out of mana had hit him hard.