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His still-spinning truck was losing altitude as well. It wouldn't be long before it crashed into the ground, and the impact alone would probably be enough to kill him if he didn't do something about it.

He tried attaching the wrecking balls to one another, but it was futile. The debris was too massive, and the iron connectors, too thin, even when he added dozens more links.

And the ground was getting awfully close.

Well.

The only thing he could think of was to push his materialization volume to its absolute limit. He hadn't tested the maximum amount of iron he could create in quite some time, but he supposed now was as good a time as any.

From the ground up, he started materializing an enormous iron cylinder, leaving it hollow in the center so that it could fully encapsulate the dwindling whirlwind. He could sense his work trembling against the raging winds, and he rushed to add more weight to it, making it taller and thicker.

He devoted everything to that end. Nothing else mattered. More mass. More weight. More iron.

It grew at a speed unlike anything he'd ever materialized before, and soon enough, he was looking down at a true tower of iron as it was rising up to meet him--to meet the wrecking balls, as well.

The goal wasn't to let them barrel into the side of it, though. He wanted it to catch the giant chunks of debris from below and thereby slow their descent. He wasn't expecting it to be easy or smooth.

And boy, was he right.

His truck was the first to crash down on the iron tower, and he leapt off it just as it was about to hit. The impact sent scraps of metal flying in all directions as the entire tower shuddered, but the truck's horizontal momentum helped to mitigate some of the damage, making it scrape diagonally down through the tower instead of straight through it.