Boom! Arrowhead met fire! Time itself seemed to hold its breath. Then the world shattered. A storm of gold devoured the horizon, quake-waves rattling the bones of heaven. Space rippled like a pond struck by a meteor.
Every spectator, helpless before that annihilating glow, clamped their eyes shut by instinct alone. When the light finally receded, a stunned hiss passed over the field.
Lester knelt on one knee. A fist-sized hole gaped in his breastplate. Blood pumped through shattered armor plates that now lay around like violet shards of glass.
He stared at the wound in frozen horror, as though only now understanding that death had entered his body.
Jared barely remained standing. The Divine Bow’s backlash had ripped every meridian in his frame. Dark blood trickled from the corner of his mouth while his limbs swayed.
“I… I lost?” Lester whispered, disbelief quivering on each syllable.
“N-No! We not lost! Never!” Madness flickered in his eyes. He jerked his head toward the crowd behind him. “What are you staring at? Move! Kill and seize that bow now!”
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