Another Earthblade Feat

Kamijou was not able to hear the rest of the sentence.
This was because there was a tremendous noise and Terra of the Left’s body
suddenly exploded.
No, technically Kamijou did not see the instant Terra was blown away.
An orange flash came down through the ceiling right above Terra. The pillar of
light was about 3 meters across and, the second it hit the floor, a terrible blast
roared through that room of the Palace of the Popes. Kamijou’s feet were torn
from the ground in an instant and he flew several meters back like a puff of dust.
Itsuwa and the powered suit were caught up by the blast too and flew back with
him.
“Gwaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!?” Kamijou screamed when he hit the floor.
It wasn’t so much a sharp pain as it was a weak scorching pain in his arm. It felt
like a day old sunburn. When he looked at it, his skin was slightly red. He had
been burned.
(Wh-what just…?)
He shook his hazy head and looked at the area that had exploded.
When he did, his body stiffened.
The area Terra had been lying in had become a swirl of lava. A few meters of the
stone floor had been turned to a glowing orange pond and what looked like the
same stuff was dripping from the huge hole in the ceiling. He heard the sound of
evaporating water. When he tried to approach, an invisible wall of heat hit his
skin.
He could see something out the window.
Those objects that looked like they were created from dark stains that were
circling in the blue sky were…bombers.
Where they would normally have bay doors to drop bombs, they had a jet black
metal blade.
He didn’t know what had happened, but it was clear it was some type of attack.
“Terra…”
As he could not approach due to the heat, Kamijou called the name of his enemy.
The steel wings flying in the air were coming back his way.
The bombers had created enough distance for their approach and were
accelerating to a tremendous speed.
“Terraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
His yell was erased.
Multiple pillars of light tore through the ceiling and hit the exact point Terra had
been in. With that kind of accuracy, it was more sniping than it was bombing.
The orange light took away Kamijou’s vision. His body was thrown against the
floor again and again from some kind of after-effect.
He passed out.
But even if he hadn’t passed out, he wouldn’t have been able to find Terra.
The ceiling and walls disappeared in an area in front of Kamijou as it all turned
into a sea of lava. A third of the Palace of the Popes disappeared in the same
way.
And Terra was gone without having left a corpse.
- To Aru Majutsu no Index Vol.14 Chapter 4 Part 8 (Bakatsuki)





Kamijou couldn’t make out the next words.
Because with a massive boom!!…
…Terra’s body suddenly exploded.
Actually, strictly speaking, Kamijou hadn’t seen the moment itself.
An orange flash of light had plunged through the ceiling and fallen right on
top of the man. As soon as the three-meter-wide pillar of light pierced the floor,
an incredible wind blasted through the room in the Papal Palace.
Kamijou’s feet were instantly peeled from the floor, and he was blown several
meters backward like a ball of dust. Itsuwa and the powered suit, lying in other
places, took the blast in the same fashion and rolled toward him.
“Gwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh?!”
Kamijou screamed as he was slammed into the floor.
Apart from that overall injury, he felt a thin, stinging pain shoot up his arm. It
felt like the day after getting sunburned. He looked and saw that the skin had
reddened. It was burned.
Wh-what…?
He shook his hazy head and looked over to where the blast had hit.
Then his body went rigid.
The place Terra had been lying just a moment ago had already changed to a
vortex of molten rock. Over several meters, the floor made of stone had
changed into a muddy swamp shining orange, and from the ceiling with a big
hole in it as well, the same kind of thing was dripping. He heard the sizzling
sound of water evaporating. Simply trying to get near, a hot blast like an
invisible wall clung to his skin.
He looked around and spotted something out the window.
Circling slowly, as though creating black smudges against the blue sky—
multiple bombers.
Instead of their bulkheads for dropping bombs, they had jet-black metal
blades. He didn’t know what had happened, but it was clear they’d carried out
some sort of attack.
“Terra…”
Still unable to get very close to the wall of heat, Kamijou called the name of
the man who had been his enemy.
The steel wings dancing in the skies once again set their sights on this place.
The bombers, which had used a sufficient approach distance to accelerate,
darted through the air at incredible speeds.
“Terraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
His scream was drowned out.
Several pillars of light flashed down through the ceiling, again pinpointing the
exact spot Terra had been.
Their precision might have been closer to sniping than bombing. The orange
light blocked out his vision. Taking some kind of aftershock, Kamijou’s body
bounded over the floor again and again.
That was when he passed out.
But even if he hadn’t, he wouldn’t have found Terra again.
From the section in front of the fallen Kamijou, the walls and ceiling had
disappeared, all replaced by a sea of lava. A third of the Papal Palace had been
lost.
…And Terra of the Left had vanished, leaving not even a corpse behind.
- To Aru Majutsu no Index Vol.14 Chapter 4 Part 8 (Yenpress)