Adolfa's POV
Thanatos's dozen figures darted after me, moving like shadows cloaked in smoke. I twisted and sprinted, dodging left, sliding across molten ground, leaping over shattered bones and flaming debris. His presence alone made the realm tremble. I couldn't let him get too close—if he touched me, it was over.
"He's too dangerous," I muttered to myself, breath ragged. "Too dangerous to fight head-on."
Each step I took seemed slower than the last, as though the hellish air was pulling me down. Thanatos didn't even chase me in one form—his clones surrounded me, each of them burning from the inside, fire oozing from their mouths, eyes, and pores. The intensity of their flames scorched my skin even from a distance.
I rolled behind a crumbled column of black stone, gripping m
