A large sword of pure light with a thick blade swung above his head and tore through the house behind him. It went through the wall as if the wall had been made of paper and cut cleanly like a powerful laser. Caleb had ducked just in time to avoid losing his head. He struck out while his opponent's sword was still going through the wall and cut through his right knee. The sword of light penetrated all the way through and the man grunted in pain and lost his balance. The large sword vanished as he fell on one knee. Caleb swiftly decapitated the man whose name he didn't know.
Once he would have considered this act profoundly immoral. Now he had spent months watching the magic users of Elysium tear the city apart as if in a fit of madness. They fought each other for dominance like wild anima
