It ruptured the ground beneath her feet, making the dirt crumble and churn while also sending forth scything waves of power that tore up the grass and gouged through dirt as it headed straight for the congregated trappers like a subterranean monster tearing through the earth to get to them.
Many of them leaped out of the way, no doubt thanks to an agility befitting that of men whose livelihoods revolved around handling dangerous beasts large and small. A few of them screamed as the ground erupted underneath them, however, and their loud dismay gave Vica the adrenaline-powered desperation to do it once more. The tree hadn’t quite snapped at its base the way she had hoped it would, but the shrieking splinter of wood that had answered her first expulsion of magic had to mean that it was wea
