Board Thread:FAQs/@comment-29313623-20180812234833/@comment-27144409-20180816011233

Radiation son.

Neutron bombs were intended to each deliver a high-intensity, short half-life pulse of lethal radiation. Said radiation (which would hopefull be several times the required rad levels for a fatal dose) would cause minimal damage to tanks, guns, jets, bombs ,and other materiel, while killing any personnel.

Ruby's eye flash is essentially magic radiation, in that it comes from a magical source, and it doens't behave like normal radiation. The only things we know to be hurt by it are objectively souless monsters, and the one unfortuneate witch we've seen face an SEW flash after having integrated one of said monsters into her body.

That is why I said the SEW flash is like a more selective (really, an impossibly selective) neutron bomb detonation. She does zero damage to her surroundings, or people, but the monsters take a beating without recieving tangible kinetic, thermal, or electromagnetic energy.