I immediately pulled my head back behind the alley so that they wouldn’t see me. I balled my right hand into a fist and charged it with red electricity, which crackled and sparked, but not loudly enough for them to hear. I just needed to hit them with one sufficiently strong blast of red lightning and both would go down in one hit. So I waited patiently, listening to the guards’ footsteps growing ever closer. After a few seconds of waiting, the two guards walked past my alley, still talking and laughing, but that was when I sprung the ambush. I jerked my arm toward them and unleashed two bolts of electricity that hit both guards square in the back. The two guards immediately collapsed onto the street, but even before their heads hit the street, I left my hiding place in the alley and, gr