His gaze flicked back to me. “You swear to me, icicle?”
“I swear.”
“All right.” He shifted his weight again, then I felt the resistance dissipate, and I pushed my sphere further into his.
I smiled when his raged wildly with his fuchsia flame, lashing at mine.
I stepped closer, ramping up my power, feeding more and more, and walking along the proverbial bridge I could feel running between our magic now.
Easy.
It was so easy now.
His eyes lit up as he felt it too, then pushed harder.
Both our hands were shaking, but not from the strain—from the all-encompassing thrill of it, the heady intensity as our magic literally converged into something else entirely.
The spheres aligned, essentially snapping into place.
The moment they did, our fused creation started sparking and swirling, then spinning faster and faster, like it was about to detonate.
Because it was.
It was ready.
I signaled Zayn and he gave a nod.
Then, in the next second, we thrust our palms forward, sending theEcliptic Convergencepropelling into the middle of the hostiles gathered.
As soon as it hit center, power exploded out of it in a series of insanely powerful shockwaves that rocked the entire area, all that magic rushing out in its fused state, flooding through the hostiles.
It absolutely decimated them all, touching each one of them, and the moment it did… melting them into liquid magic. Pools all over the ground of that midnight-blue.
Every. Single. One. Of. Them.
A choked sound of relief and disbelief escaped me.
Zayn staggered back a step.
A stunned silence fell over the troops.
And then applause and cheers erupted.
People high-fived us, hugged us. Dad and Grandma grinned at me. Torvek winked.
A few shoulder slaps from excitable dragons that Zayn got nearly knocked him over, so I wrapped my arm around him to keep him steadied.
He leaned in to kiss me, and I was absolutely here for it—but then we were all startled by commotion in the distance.
“The mountain,” Dad uttered, and I pulled Zayn tighter to me, as we looked out at the damaged ice mountain that Dad had told us about earlier being the place where Vorzyr had been holding Ruxnoth off.
A dangerous thunder rumbled.
And then all of us jolted and stepped back in response as the mountain imploded.
Snow, ice, and chunks of earth exploded out everywhere.
Vorzyr came into view, propelled from it violently, in human form, drenched in blood, his clothes shredded. He landed brutally hard on the ice rocks bordering the area, choking up more blood all over the place.
