The people living in District 4 watched the mushroom cloud rising in the distance and were evacuated to safe areas with panic written across their faces.
Everyone was thoroughly puzzled. What exactly was going on today?
Academy City had always been quite safe. Even when Level 5s occasionally caused trouble, Judgment and Anti-Skill would suppress them as quickly as possible.
But today, there had first been a massive disturbance in District 7, and now District 4 was in chaos as well. Judging by the scale of the upheaval, it was even rather astonishing.
Seeing the thermal energy generated by the fuel explosion, Accelerator immediately used Vector Manipulation to concentrate all of it into a single point and hurl it at Yoru Machi.
Compressed into a single point under Vector Manipulation, the thermal energy was now no less powerful than a high-yield C4 explosive.
Facing the compressed heat energy rushing toward him, Yoru Machi raised one hand and rapidly chanted a Kidō incantation.
"Ruler of the heavens! Mask of flesh and blood, all creation, fluttering wings, bearer of the name of man! Truth and temperance, upon the sinless wall of dreams, stand only upon it!
Hadō #33: Azure Flame Fall!"
Blue flames appeared in Yoru Machi's palm, shooting forward in the next second.
The orange-red flames collided with the azure flames in midair. The heatwave and shockwave unleashed by the clash formed a dividing line that split heaven and earth in two.
The shockwave and heatwave from the explosion nearly instantly swallowed Yoru Machi, Accelerator, and the entire abandoned factory.
Accelerator stood firm amid the explosive flames. When the oncoming heatwave reached his body, it seemed to encounter some invisible resistance and was all deflected away.
Just as Accelerator, standing amid the flames, scanned his surroundings in search of Yoru Machi,