Chapter 21: Human combustion
"....human combustion!"
Boom!
The Knights were still looking clueless when the humans, the candidates, exploded in a shower of bright blue light and rippling heat.
Blue light cracked in the air like lightning. The ground shook, and debris mixed with flesh bits and blood erupted into the air. The heat and the shockwave slammed into Vacuse as he was running and threw him forward, ramming into the ground in a skidding motion.
And just like that, silence descended into the clearing. Even the animals and insects stopped their noises.
Vacuse groaned and pulled himself up. His back was scorched, and one stray splinter the size of a finger was lodged into his back, slowly dripping blood.
He sucked in a sharp breath. The pain on his back was less than the one he was feeling on his head, where his head was forced into the ground.
He touched his tender nose and winced at the pain, but his red eyes were narrowed in concentration, and his other hand did not leave his sword. "Are they... all dead?"
He stayed where he was for a while and let his Force energy calculate and begin healing. Then he walked to where the explosion took place.