Chapter 139: Burning it all down

A series of bone-rattling detonations followed, entire sections of the Night compound shuddering as incendiary artillery shells began raining down across the gasoline-saturated battleground. Soon fire crawled inside the building like a see of snakes. Within seconds, the entire above-ground portion of Night's headquarters was engulfed in an apocalyptic firestorm. Towering columns of roiling smoke and flame belched skyward, the fearsome conflagration visible for miles across Hammer city's skyline. But the real devastation was only just beginning to unfold. Displaced by the intense heat and rapidly consuming oxygen, the gasoline vapors funneled into every vent and crevice, eagerly seeking out ignition sources as they saturated the underground levels. A series of percussive thumps echoed up from below, each one accompanied by hellish bales of smoke and several mushroom clouds bursting out of the compound's surface access points. "Looks like the welcome mat is getting nicely unfu