Suryasta snuffs out the flammable mud acid

Its entire underside was on fire a moment later, spreading almost instantly from its raised limb to its belly—which really didn’t seem to both the Goliath all that much, because it just put its foot back down and turned its heat breath upon the ground below it, slagging solid stone in moments. As for me, the flames rose around me in an instant, hot enough to make my skin glow like a sword from a forge, but I grit my teeth and called to Suryasta wordlessly, who snuffed out the flames in my immediate vicinity. He then had to focus to keep the Goliath’s snot from reigniting, but if it was just this—

I moved, senses warning me a few seconds before I saw what the Grimm was doing. Steadily slagging rock flowed into the broken crevices its stops had made and it stepped back to further melt that as well. In moments, what had been a grassy plain moments before looked more like the basin of an active volcano. As soon as the burning lake had finished forming, and without the slightest hint of hesitation, the Goliath climbed in, wading through the magma before crouching in it like…