In a titanic explosion of erasing proportions, fist met blade. The air between them expanded like a balloon filled to its absolute limit, swelling outward for a fraction of a second before detonating in madness and ruin. The desert itself seemed to recoil as sand exploded backward in terrifying insanity, dunes collapsing and grains screaming as they were flung violently away from the epicenter.
Aura Nova's eyes narrowed for a brief moment, sharp and calculating, before a smile curved her lips the very next second. She had merely been surprised, nothing more, that Kingsley had actually dared to meet her blade with nothing but his bare fist. That moment of surprise vanished instantly. Without wasting even a fraction of a heartbeat, the two of them disappeared in a flickering blur, their speed escalating and peaking with every passing instant as the battlefield struggled to keep up.
