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Even at this distance, he could already feel the heat. And then he saw the tidal wave of white hot flame approaching, scorching whole dunes and melting them before even touching them. The bottom half of the wave plowed through the ground, splashing molten liquid into the air like a boat cutting through water.

Hmm. Not bad.

Not enough, though.

It would probably require two or three Mk. Vs to absorb so much heat, but they would need time to combine, first. Soul-infused, the attack would knock out dozens of Mk. Is if he waited.

So he'd have to deal with it himself.

He took a crouching step forward, launched away from the ground with an explosively powerful jump, clapped his hands together, and concentrated as he soared closer to the inferno.

Integration was not a well understood ability, even to this day. Over the course of his long life, most of the other integrators that Morgunov had met only had a solid grasp on the basic principles of it. Two materials being fused together. Learning new materials through the hyper-state of pan-wzrost.

But there was so much more.

The fusing process itself was fantastically complex, yet so easy to pull off that the youngins rarely ever gave it a second thought. With sufficient practice, the bonds between molecules or even atoms could be directly manipulated.

Admittedly, that wasn't easy, but it opened up a world of possibilities regarding energy transference--for example, in the instigation of both endothermic and exothermic reactions. Or in other words, the absorption and release of heat.

So this gargantuan wall of fire in front of him wasn't that big of a problem, really. Sure, it was a buttload of heat that needed to be absorbed, and sure, transferring all of it into something without causing that thing to violently explode was dangerous beyond measure.

But what was a battle without a little danger, eh?