The Kistherians flew through the Elemental Vortex in a swarm thick as ants.
The Kistherians were famed for their courage and revered the glory of warriors. Those who defeated stronger opponents earned their praise, but that did not mean they had no sense.
Faced with a Black Dragon as powerful as Bamas, they cast aside any thought of a warrior's glory and charged him all at once.
"Heh, heh, heh—"
Bamas watched them approach. He tipped back his head and parted his enormous jaws, gathering searing flames in his throat.
Boom! Blinding fire flared as he unleashed a blast of scorching flame.
With a thunderous boom, blinding flames burst forth, blazing at an extraordinarily high temperature. The Kistherians caught directly in the flames had their clothes burned away at once. Then the heat, tens of thousands of degrees strong, set their bodies alight. They fell back into the Elemental Vortex as fireballs and became part of the elements.
After that first devastating strike, Black Dragon Bamas did not stop. He swung his head from side to side, sweeping the column of fire across more of them.
One Kistherian after another was engulfed and set ablaze.
A Psion watched the Black Dragon intently. When Bamas turned his head and fixed his gaze on him, a light flashed in the Psion's eyes.
"Mind Blast!"
Flames fell upon him. The Psion screamed as he turned to char and dropped from the sky, but Black Dragon Bamas also went rigid. His column of fire, molten as lava, cut off at once.
The Kistherians seized the chance and swarmed him like ants, filling the space around Bamas with a dense mass of black.
By the time he recovered from the Psion's attack, black had swallowed his entire field of vision. Slender Kistherians pressed shoulder to