Page 45 of Stars in Aura

His eyes widened in pure disbelief.

She stood in the clearing, her forearm plating and gloves discarded.

‘Are youfokkininsane?’ he bellowed. ‘Armour, Elaris! Without it, you’re exposing yourself!’

She wasn’t listening.

Heck, he hitched a breath, eyes on her unbelieving.

Staring as her bare hands crackled with white-gold force, and lightning veins of celestial fire ran up her arms. The air around her resonated with sheer, volatile force.

Her golden, green astral eyes locked onto the advancing warriors, and obliteration followed with a flick of her fingers.

Energy lanced from her palms, arcing in a lightning streak to rip through the enemy forces as if made of paper. Their obsidianarmor melted on impact, and their cosmic cores shattered in bursts of dying light.

Ki’Remi froze, still attempting to process the scene with horror and a fascination that knotted in his gut.

Another warrior lunged for him, their blade cutting through the air.

He ducked, countered, and drove his combat knife through their side. The bastard scarcely reacted.

He twisted his laser sword and slid it under the enemy’s chin.

This time, he lucked out, and his attacker slumped to the ground.

It wasn’t blood that leaked out from the wound, twas gold motes of dust.

They floated into the atmosphere and danced as if alive and sentient from their fallen body.

He stared at it and blinked, his mind trying to make sense of what he was seeing.

None of it computed.

He sent a command to his noids.Figure this shit out.

A cloud of his nanoids lifted off his frame and mingled with the gilded specks.

For a second, he got a trace of ancient voices.

A chorus from an antediluvian age so old yet of such beauty it soaked into his bones, songs in a dialect so ethereal he jerked from their gut punch.

Without warning, his noids were shredded, torn apart, and cast aside by the gold dust, which floated up and disappeared.

He jolted and risked a glance at Issa.

She wasn’t stopping.

Her power flared with wild force as she eviscerated two more alien warriors.

Ki’Remi caught her gaze flick upward to the adversarial gunship still hovering as its rail guns turned towards him.

‘Fokk.’

Ki’Remi didn’t think twice and gritted, ‘Elaris! Take that ship out, now!’

She narrowed her eyes on it as her hands lifted toward the heavens.

The energy building at her fingertips wasn’t just any weaponry but annihilation.

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