For a while now, Celeste's quite limited combat arsenal had frustrated her. She had plenty of Skills for longer range skirmishes and battles, but not much, if any, when it came to close combat or affecting a wide swathe of the battlefield.
With the help of her master and her Sponsor's boons, though, she was able to rectify that.
…A wide slash of light escaped her sword, engulfing the locust colony.
It shone with a beautiful light, almost dazzling in its radiance.
However, beneath the veneer of beauty, lay a deadly reality.
The frenzied abominations burst apart, one after the other.
The terrifying sword slash sliced through their seething expanse, ravaging the furious Defiled. Countless explosions tore through the forest. Drops of green, slimy poison shimmered in the air; like toxic rain, they drizzled to the ground, eroding through the endless moss and detritus covering the forest floor.
