The light that erupted from Leo Shaw was not merely a glow; it was a physical force, a searing, incandescent tidal wave of pure brilliance that seemed to bleach the very fabric of reality. It was an intensity so profound that it bypassed the eyelids and scorched the retinas of everyone in Class 2-Spirit. Screams of shock and sudden, sharp pain echoed through the room as students reflexively dove under their mahogany desks, shielding their faces with textbooks, bags, or their bare arms. The air itself seemed to vibrate at a frequency that set teeth on edge and made the classroom’s reinforced Energy Screen hum with a frantic, buzzing protest.
Outside the thick, stone walls of the Spirit Martial Academy, the phenomenon was even more terrifying. A pillar of white-hot light shot through the hi
