Two fire elements had appeared beside Nimel. Both were tiny, only half her height, and they stood firmly in front of her, keeping the poison men from approaching.
Nimel wanted to draw a card, only to discover in horror that she had just two left, one of them a zero-star card.
And the claws of the two poison men were already reaching for her face.
Nimel's expression changed dramatically as she withdrew from that combat mode.
In a panic, she drew the zero-star card and instinctively took a step back.
Unfortunately, Nimel had already retreated as far as she could. Her foot stepped into empty air, and she toppled backward.
This was where Caroso had blasted open the elevator doors. With this fall, Nimel could drop straight down to the first floor.
In the end, Nimel failed to cast the spell.
Just as Nimel plummeted through the air at high speed, a passage of flames suddenly appeared.
Boom!
Several poison men slammed directly into the walls of the elevator shaft.
Caroso appeared within the elevator shaft. He pushed off the wall with both feet and dove downward.
Before Nimel could hit the ground, Caroso swept her into his arms.
"Older brother?"
Caroso ignored Nimel. He pushed off the walls on either side of the elevator shaft again to halt himself, then charged back upward.
"Roar!"
One poison man after another came roaring down from above. Caroso calmly swung the Sword of Flames in midair, and not a single poison man could land alive beside him.
Caroso returned to the top and said coldly, "How much longer are you going to stand there in a daze?"
Only then did Nimel come back to her senses. She hurriedly flung out a card, and a bone-chilling frost spread forward from her body.
Crack,