El stood on the head of the monster, shouting loudly, directing the crowded crowd to evacuate, but unfortunately no one turned back to respond to him due to the panic caused by the monster.

At this moment, a middle-aged man in the crowd suddenly shouted in astonishment:

"Is it El?"

The boy looked in the direction of the voice and found that it was the teacher of the class he had skipped when he accepted the mission and left school.

As the middle-aged man recognized El, more old acquaintances from the school were willing to turn around and take a look at this somewhat mysterious truant student.

This place is a school, and there are already employees and students settled here. Amid those incredulous looks, everyone slowly began to retreat, and the chaos caused by the strange beasts entering the city began to dissipate little by little.

Everyone's gazes made El feel instinctively uncomfortable. He thought carefully and decided that he might need a mask to cover his face to ease the embarrassment.

Unfortunately, now is not the time to think about these things. After completing the evacuation of the stampede, seeing that the remaining monsters had been forced to the corner of the school near the city wall by Fran, El planned to exchange the battlefield with the cat who was fighting alone on the line above.

At this moment, El suddenly heard a collective exclamation again, and at the same time he felt that his surroundings became brighter and warmer.

El looked up and saw a strange beast covered in flames falling towards him from the sky. Judging by the naked eye, the point of contact between the beast and the ground was obviously the crowd that had just been evacuated in front.

This strange beast did not have any wings or wing-like structures, and it kept tumbling in the air as if it was thrown over the city wall by a huge hand.

Such a huge beast, with flames burning all over its body, even El was panicked for a moment.

It would be easy for him to survive as long as he shrank underground.

But what about everyone else?

If the beast fell, it would be smashed to pieces, but would the people who were hit survive? Moreover, there was a fire burning, so it looked like something terrible was going to happen.

The crowd around had once again fallen into panic, but this time because of the existence of the school fence, they seemed to have nowhere to run and could only run around like headless flies, and there was no trampling.

El wanted to move, but he felt that his feet were tied to the ground and he couldn't move his legs.

He was surprised because the panic at this moment was not false. He had tried his best, but the tragedy before him might really be inevitable.

His three existing abilities, whether it was the approximate exchange, the dimensional displacement that could avoid most physical attacks, or even the short-distance teleportation he acquired some time ago, were unable to save these people.

So, why don't you run away?

There is obviously no other way...

No, there seems to be a way!

He had saved so many soldiers and Extinction Legion warriors who were thrown from the sky by alien beasts before, so how could he have no way to do anything about this?

But... looking at the strange beast that was constantly burning in the sky, El suddenly understood why he had not thought of this aspect from the beginning -

He is afraid of fire!

If you want to bring the strange beast directly underground, you must come into contact with it and subjectively recognize it as a part of yourself.

But if that were the case, the blazing flames would also burn him, and he would be dead in a matter of seconds.

At this moment, El was in pain.

The sound of artillery fire and the smell of gunpowder came from above the city wall. A group of people were fighting to the death there.

Fran behind him needed to block the gap in the city wall and couldn't get over for the time being.

The people around me have fallen into collapse, showing all kinds of life in their last moments.

Only El felt like an outsider at this moment.

He is confused and in pain, not because he is unable to save others, but precisely because he can do it, but the price may be beyond imagination.

He would have no more than three seconds to make a decision.

El looked at the crowd around him and suddenly saw a few classmates he was familiar with.

These young people are close to mental breakdown at this moment. One of them sits on the ground looking at the sky, watching the "meteor" falling that he can only see once in a lifetime, and no one knows what he is thinking.

El didn't know what the other person was thinking, he only knew that if making a wish really worked, perhaps everyone who saw this scene would wish to make this thing in the sky disappear.

Then let them have their wish.

As El thought so, his figure disappeared above the corpse of the strange beast on the ground.

In just a moment, he arrived at a height of more than ten meters below the fireball.

El, who had learned some physics, knew that the alien beast's falling speed was much faster than his own, so he did not teleport to the same height, but chose to wait in advance for the alien beast to hit him.

Despite making this choice, El still maintained a strong desire to survive.

This may be a common characteristic of people in outer city areas - as tenacious as rats.

Even if there is no way out, El will not choose to sit and wait for death.

In the one second before the monster hit him, he thought of many things, and the only thing that could keep him alive was his superpowers.

When you exchange two objects, is it simply manipulation of the objects or is there something deeper at play?

When you move through a solid object, what exactly changes?

How do you do it when you can make a short distance jump?

These questions combined together eventually become the same question:

When you use your abilities, what are you manipulating?

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