Inside the municipal hall, the ceiling buckled under the strain and collapsed wildly. Huge chunks of stone crashed down, and pillars toppled one after another.
The sixteen of them raced desperately toward the exit, surrounded by defensive Magic Tools, Water Domain: Cycle, Light Blessing: Holy Shield, and Rock Barrier: Jagged Stone. Fortunately, the municipal building's foundations were still fairly solid, and the collapse began on the second floor.
If the foundations had given way as well, they would probably have been buried inside.
They sprinted all the way. Without the plant wall blocking their path, everyone moved much faster.
"We're at the main entrance!"
"Hurry!"
"Thank heavens, we made it out!"
The upper floors collapsed in the opposite direction, but the shock wave still swept toward them. With no time to worry about what had happened, they braved the force of the collapsing building and raced out of that deathtrap of a municipal hall.
"We're over here!"
When Bai Tingting saw that everyone had escaped safely, she immediately cried out in delight.
"Tingting, hurry! Save Xu Dalong! He's dying!"
Mo Xie quickly laid Xu Dalong flat on the ground and shouted to Bai Tingting.
Seeing the bloody hole pierced through Xu Dalong's abdomen, Bai Tingting could imagine just how dangerous it had been inside.
"Melt the ice."
Not daring to waste a moment, she immediately cast an intermediate-level Healing Element spell.
A Healing Sprite slowly floated out. Once the ice had melted, it plunged straight into the bloody hole in Xu Dalong's abdomen.
Xu Dalong had long since lost consciousness. His breathing was so faint that he could die at any moment. The damage to his internal organs was not what threatened to kill him; the blood loss was. He had gone pale all over and could breathe his last