The fire wall's timing was clever—it appeared right after Adam descended, at the very moment before he would accelerate again to enter the forest. Jace had set a magic trap within the flames; the instant Adam's body touched the fire, the trap would trigger and become a flaming cage to imprison him.
Just as the terrified Lina was about to warn her master to dodge, she suddenly found herself tumbling through the air and into the forest, as if she were flying through the air.
Adam was less than a meter from the flames. Both dragon claws dug into the ground; with a violent twist, his thick tail, coated in ice element, lashed hard against the fire wall. The elemental powers canceled each other out, and the wall vanished. "Other beings with extraordinary power? You've come at just the right time."