The first-year students who were watching swallowed hard and collapsed back onto the seats behind them, their breathing irregular and ragged as though they had just survived the greatest apocalypse of all time rather than a mere demonstration of power.
Although the Instructor had protected everyone and the coliseum by covering it with an Astra-forged, cube-shaped barrier, perfectly blocking the shockwave and devastation of the Tenth Sun's attack, to the first-year students, it still felt as though their bodies and souls had directly endured the attack regardless, as if the terror had bypassed all defenses and struck them from within.
