Shen groaned loudly as the implausibly loud roar filled his ears, making him feel like a pair of drills were trying to bore through his eardrums. He briefly went through his knee from the sheer pain of the sound, but kept his grip firmly on the fireball in his hand. When the demon stopped roaring, it left a strong ring inside Shen's ears, but he was able to rise to his feet, unharmed but disoriented.

As he was trying to consider what to do next, he noticed the faint twinkle of the mage's charged attack way above. Especially in this state, he couldn't tell if it was a threat to him or not, but decided he couldn't take a risk, not now that he was in such a bad state to be dodging anything. On impulse, he turned his back to the skyscraper Free was on, aimed the fireball in his hand diagonally down in front of his feet and jumped. Rather than throwing the fireball, he converted it into a different attack: an empowered flamethrower. The jet of fire hit the ground and the force of it propelled him further into the air, launching him several stories upwards to crash unceremoniously in into the skyscraper through one of the broken windows. It was a clumsy move to make, but would win him some time to recover from the demon's roar, and probably put him out of the danger zone of whatever the mage was about to do.