As Ruxnoth roared and had to release me in a bid to fight it, Father then materialized right behind him with Kai to his side, clutching Father’s shoulder.
The shocks kept on coming as Kai’s rose-gold magic flamed as he drew on Father, like Dad was doing with Ryker.
Kai’s incantation was a special melding of two anti-Celestial spells I’d heard of before.
Rarities. And they shouldn’t be able to be combined, especially not with the necromantic aspect from Dad’s end. But… that was it… Vax had been with them working on dangerous spellwork. They’d employed his vibrational resonance to fuse it.
Ruxnoth roared as Kai called out, “Zheiren val’kara. Nuriel thaz’en.”Let shadow precede the light.
“Fools!” Ruxnoth snarled.
"Mors omnes tangit,"Kai uttered next. That was my dad’s spell, high-level Necromancy against a Celestial being.Death touches all.
I saw the gray film dissolve, then. The necromancers had lost their hold on Ruxnoth, the protection had broken.
At that moment, Kai’s invocation of their joint spell delivered slash after slash across Ruxnoth’s chest, making him bleed.
Kai continued, his voice growing louder and more vehement. “Kael’shara ven’torii. Zhurai ek’tol kai’neth.”Remove the chains of heaven. I am older still.
“Cassius… such a disappointment,” Ruxnoth ground out. “You could have wielded unchecked power. Instead you became one of these lessers.”
“Coming from a madman masquerading as a god, that means nothing at all. And now you’ve touched my son, your death will be spectacular,heathen.”
I stumbled back between Vax and Mom, watching the insane scene before me that I couldn’t reconcile for the life of me.
It took me time to even realize that there was now a film up, hiding what was going on from the rest of campus. Purple, so it had to be Mom’s Dark Fae illusionary magic.
Mom helped Vaxan now he’d driven Ruxnoth’s legs as deep into the earth as was possible without interfering with the spell going on, and she encircled Ruxnoth’s legs with her Wraith frost too, entrenching them there.
A chill rolled down my spine when Ruxnoth smirked to himself as his blood pooled on the ground.
His eyes flickered unstably with his midnight-blue power.
He was invoking something.
I called out a warning—but it was too late.
He used that warped power of his to transform the blood into what looked like two metal snakes. They slithered around, making Mom and I jump back, and Vax choke in shock.
Then one drove into the frost, another burrowing into the ground.
Digging him out.
Fucking digging him out.
Ryker conjured some green shimmering binds and set about trying to confine Ruxnoth that way.
But in the midst of it, the bastard shot out his hand and wrapped it around Dad’s throat.
“Sylas!” Mom cried.
“Curses,” Father ground out, blinking and clearly struggling as Kai continued to channel him while his incantation continued ferociously.
Dad threw out his own hand and snagged Ruxnoth’s throat too, and he invoked Desiccation Curse. Now the necromantic protection was broken, it turned his skin to a gray tinge, working to desiccate him.
Ruxnoth let out a choked laugh. “Valiant effort. You’ve revealed a great deal. Showed your hand sufficiently.”
What the—
