Loss and Gain

The attack that came barely registered in the eyes of all the experts who had been paying attention.

All said experts, were united by a mutual feeling of terror, as the straight beam did not simply penetrate Jerthrax's skin. Rather, because it was moving far faster than was imaginable, it ripped through the dragon's unguarded body, burning his skin and organs from the friction that occurred upon contact.

Once inside, the straight stream, incapable of being forced to change, carried forward its treacherous force and blew up the dragon's heart and everything remotely close to it in a devastating bang!

And it didn't stop there.

It shot upwards, travelled through the dragon's throat, destroying everything in its path and then fizzled out before it eradicated the brain!

Vohnvolt, who had his hands clapped together, the concentrated glow of closely-knit purple-gold crystal particles shooting from them, felt this rupturing of the Herald's insides.