And in the same instant, the spheres of light detonated.
Brilliant starlight erupted across the battlefield, as if a piece of the night sky had descended upon the earth. Each explosion was a sunburst, searing and absolute, swallowing monsters in waves of radiant annihilation. Screams were drowned out in the brilliance, shadows burned away in the flood of silver-white destruction.
For a heartbeat, the battlefield no longer looked like a place of blood and dirt. It looked like a testing site for some bomb.
When the light faded, only a quarter of the enemies remained. Yu Xuan scanned the field and moved to finish them. He felt the trial was simple now — too simple.
He frowned inwardly.
'Why is it easier than I thought?'
His question was barely formed before the hooded figure shifted. With a slow, deliberate motion he raised a hand.
Far off, at the five nodes that Yu Xuan had noticed forming a pentagram, columns of bloody light burst upward.
