There was the sound of a powerful explosion that took us by surprise, and for a moment, the entire world seemed to shudder in its wake.
"Wh-what the hell was that?!" Chelsea screamed in alarm, holding on to me tightly for balance.
A powerful gust of wind swept through the vicinity, raising swaths of desert sand into the air and whipping past our faces.
The residual shockwave forced us to lower our heads and raise our arms over our faces to block the debris. The force of the explosion lasted only a few seconds, and a short moment later, it was over.
The powerful and raging gales subsided, and the deep, thunderous sounds dissipated into the expansive Blood Desert.
The sound of the explosion was so sudden that some of the cadets threw themselves against the ground in the crater.
