But the joke was on him. All that energy swarmed into my body with a second clap of my hands. Before, the energy of a single flare coursed through my body. This time, the energy of a city charged my every muscle fiber, my every nerve – the swords that Scar dodged sent their blades down to spring me up from the broken floor beneath me.

For a second, I flew. The moment ended with my descent to the road in the dark of the night, in a powerless city. My body’s spasms left me twitching uncontrollably. All that energy made me jittery, it made my vision blur. Blood was leaking from my mouth – I remembered. My body had been injured by Scar, right?

Damn. Even with all the power of a city backing me, a group of damaged organs were still a group of damaged organs. My body was not meant to channel all the power I was running through it simultaneously. When Scar emerged from the hole in the ground to dash at me, my speed put me well within his range…

But what could he do? That energy made me too fast for him to pin down, for him to hit, for him to destroy and deconstruct. My swords sped towards him, faster than he’d ever seen them before. I launched a kick at his body that he could not dodge. As quick as Scar was, I had definitely become faster than him.