Kael hit the battlefield like a dropped cannonball.
The first troll beneath him barely managed to look up before Kael's fist connected with its face. Fire erupted through the impact, not as one of the controlled spheres he had been launching from his gauntlet earlier, but as a direct discharge through the punch itself.
Orange flame swallowed the troll's head. Its enormous body remained standing for half a second before collapsing backward, smoke pouring from the blackened ruin above its shoulders.
Kael landed beside it just as another troll roared and swung a club toward him. He ducked beneath the tree trunk, felt the displaced air pass over his head and drove his left fist into the creature's swollen stomach.
Frost exploded through the contact.
