Chapter 26: To ash
"Are you sure they will survive that?"
Lydia shrugged.
"I have absolutely no idea, but that’s why you’re fighting only five of them - the loss of this many would be acceptable."
Well, at least if he burned them down by accident it wouldn’t be a problem.
Although now that he thought about it, he never used the flame directly in combat. He enhanced himself with it, or used it to finish off his opponents - but actually attacking with the flame? He hasn’t done that yet.
"Ready?" Lydia asked.
"Sure."
She recited the activation command, and the five puppets springed to life. This time they didn’t wait for him to attack, but instead jumped at him all at once.
Calen didn’t have much time to come up with an attack, so he gathered all the available power in his hands, and simply released it.
A beautiful fan of golden flames spread from his palms, swallowing his enemies completely. He couldn’t clearly see how big was the attack considering his position, but it was definitely bigger than he expected.
The fire roared for a few seconds, and then slowly died down - where the puppets stood before only five black orbs surrounded by puddles of ash remained.
Seeing the utter devastation of the attack, Calen felt stupid for not using it earlier.