Settled

The fireball did not shoot out at a particularly fast pace, but since how fast it traveled didn't matter too much, I wasn't all that concerned.

However when it started slowing down and exploded.

...But before the explosion expanded out far at all, the entire thing froze in place, stopping altogether. I couldn't help but feel beads of sweat forming on my forehead. In hindsight, it might've been a bad idea, but I used all the mana I gathered in that fireball.

In other words, if the attack failed, like what seemed to be happening right now, then this situation was almost as bad as it could be.

Within Raisa's grasp, her mother was rapidly decaying, while the red miasma had compressed to become a hand. That compressed before grabbing onto the fireball that was in the middle of exploding and through contact simply deleted it out of existence like someone just took the eraser tool in some photo editor.