The Marshal's Obliteration Beam

A narrow emerald-green beam lances from the Marshal's concealed device, slicing air with a sharp crackle. Guarded eyes cannot track its motion; it reduces flesh to gray dust in a single breath and extinguishes the body without residue, leaving only a faint ozone stench behind. The beam flicks on and off in strobing flashes that strobe like a warning—silent, instantaneous, absolute.