In the dim alleyway, blazing flames surged like ignited gasoline, rolling out waves of heat as they swept through the surroundings and scorched the walls and ground.
The already intense heat of midsummer became like magma, the temperature skyrocketing in an instant.
The air sizzled as though it were being burned away and evaporated.
In an instant, the space within a three-meter radius was charred black, and even the asphalt road and walls seemed to be melting.
If someone were struck by flames like these, it would not take long before their entire body, bones included, turned to ash, leaving nothing behind.
That was lethal power.
Ordinary people had no way of resisting such power.
In Academy City, using power on this level without being a Level 4 fire Esper should have been impossible, right?
Of course, the key issue was not whether it could be done, but what would happen to the person hit by it.
Fortunately, no one had been hit.
"That's quite a special way of saying hello..."
As though he had lunged away at the very last second, Fang Li was less than a few meters from the burning area, half-kneeling on the ground as he shielded the pale-faced Index and looked ahead.
A voice came from there.
"Perhaps it's a little too enthusiastic for ordinary people, but it can't be helped. This is what it means to be a magician. Since you've become involved in this, you can only accept it."
As he spoke, a tall figure emerged from the flames ahead.
The person who slowly walked out of the flames was a man over two meters tall, with shoulder-length red hair, thick silver rings covering all ten fingers, earrings filling his ears, a barcode-like tattoo beneath his right eye, and the attire of a