He met the attack with his own power and she grunted.
In the distraction, Zayn slipped in and then skidded to my side.
“Shit… fuckinghell,”he whimpered at the damage all over me. His fuchsia glow was sweeping all over me in the next moment, and he moved his hands frantically, trying to heal meas fast as possible. “Win…god,I can’t… it’s not working. It’s not…”
“It’s… okay. Shh. Just needs time.”
“No. This… the state of it…no,you’re not enduring this for ages on end.”
A cry from Evira had us looking out to see Ruxnoth using his warping ability to cut into her streams, turning them to mist.
She staggered back, seething at him, and he moved to strike her.
A rumble reverberated all around, then part of the chamber wall was decimated to shit. I choked as Vax burst through it, his vibrational resonance radiating out in violent pulses as he passed through the rubble like it was nothing, snagged Ruxnoth by the collar of his coat, then tossed him through the hole, sending him spinning out into the distance.
He and Evira rushed to me then.
“Come on, let’s get you out of here before he gets back,” Evira urged, grimacing as she took in the sight of me.
“Seconds,” Vax said. “We have only seconds.”
“No, we can’t move him like this,” Zayn told them. “Look. Fucking look.”
Even Vax had to avert his eyes, as he stroked my hair.
An eruption of potent power caught our attention, so immense that I thought it was Ruxnoth for a second, already returning.
But then gold light filled my vision, a moment before Ketheron materialized.
He looked absolutely distraught as he rapidly took in the situation—took in me.
He swallowed thickly, then jumped into action, skidding to his knees beside me. “Take your leave,” he told my loves. “I can heal him. To hasten the process, it requires Celestial intervention.”
None of them made a move to leave my side. Of course not.
“He is coming,” Ketheron warned. But then as he started sweeping his power over me, there was a glint in his eye as he told them, “However, so is Ambrose.”
Not only him either as I felt a very familiar roll of power.
Ruxnoth burst back into the chamber through the hole.
But what I’d felt wasn’t him.
A second later, crimson magic erupted, and Dad materialized. Flanked by my six necromancer friends.
Dad looked over at me, and I’d never seen him so pained ever. It twisted my gut.
He let out a roar, then thrust streams of his magic forward. They drove into Ruxnoth’s chest and he was screaming then as his skin started desiccating rapidly.
Dad should’ve only been able to perform Desiccation Curse on the death-touched, unless wielding corrupted power, but because of my infection in Ruxnoth’s system there was a loophole, one he’d of course recognized.
“You fucking dare to lay hands on my son!” Dad thundered.
Ruxnoth sneered as he pushed his power against Dad’s with shaking hands. “I will do a great deal more to you.” He zoned in on Rex. “And you will receive special attention for standing against me after all that I did for you.”
“Yeah, I don’t consider you using me and my fear of my mental state as you helping me out. You manipulative shit.”
With a snarl, Ruxnoth moved to send a bolt of magic at my dad.
