The last thing Eren saw before he opened the portal was the north side of the sky.
It wasn't a sky anymore. The flames had reached the tops of the tallest trees in the outer forest and the whole northern horizon was just orange and black from end to end. The heat was reaching the village center now and it was bad enough to make his skin feel tight and his eyes sting even though the actual fire was still a few hundred meters out.
He focused his mana and the air in front of the Totem split open.
The portal held steady at about fourteen seconds now. His mana pool had grown enough over the last months that a single opening could hold long enough for what they needed and he'd been drilling this exact scenario with the village for weeks.
