The collapse continued towards Jake and the Queen’s Guard, aiming to bury him alive. Jake glanced at the Guard and charged his foot with arcane mana before kicking the termite hard, sending it flying down the tunnel.
He promptly followed it, sprinting as everything behind him collapsed and sent dust everywhere. While running, he took out his bow and shot at the Guard again, blasting it further down the large tunnel toward where the Queen was.
He shot it two more times before sending out a Pulse of Perception. His eyes went wide when he saw that the tunnel leading towards the cavern with the Queen was now gone, having already collapsed. Sending out another pulse, the situation truly became clear:
The tunnel was getting destroyed from both sides… with Jake in the middle.
"Well, I’ll be d
