A deafening crack resounded through the chamber.
Stone blocks the size of carriage wheels were blasted in. Long tongues of roaring flame licked through the dust clouds, sending a wave of blistering heat rolling across the hall.
Fine chunks of concrete rained down like deadly shrapnel. And through the billows of thick smoke and showering debris, a lone silhouette burst into the room.
It was a girl of blue hair and blue-tinted purple eyes, the gradient colors making it look like there was a galaxy trapped in her gaze.
Her slender but shapely figure was clad in a sleeveless black vest and combat trousers. One of her hands was at the hilt of a guardless, single-edged cavalry sabre on her hip.
Terry was still reeling from the sudden explosion when the blue-haired girl shot toward him at breakneck speed.
