Chapter Seventy Two
Jade placed the pot filled with burning coal beside the candle. She knelt in the middle of the circle. “Expergiscere, dominus inferorum,” she chanted over and again. Those were Latin words.
Suddenly, the white, powdery substance ignited in a burst of flame, surrounding her with green fire.
“It’s working,” she gasped. She rose to her feet, chanting the Latin words louder; a gust of wind blew through the room, and I watched curiously, but then everything stopped.
The lights went off and the wind ceased. There was complete silence.
“I… I did everything right; why wouldn’t it work!” She screamed, kicking over the pot of coal.
I was used to this outburst; she was always like this anytime it didn’t work, but I had to admit, this seemed to have gone to a different level unlike her other trials.
“What am I doing wrong? Why wouldn’t this stupid spell work?”
She pushed over the bottle of potions, and it shattered spilling on the floor. She ran her hands through her hair; it seemed like she wanted to pull it out.
Then she turned to me.
“Maybe you aren’t doing it right. You are holding back why?”
I wasn’t, but I couldn’t tell her that; her spell hindered me from speaking.
“Say something!” She said, slapping me hard. I could understand that she needed to let out her frustration, and she needed someone to let it out on.
She backed away before crumbling to the ground; she broke down in sobs.
I reached out to her, slowly patting her hair, and for a moment she enjoyed that; she needed comfort, and she didn’t mind who she was receiving that from.
Finally her breaths slowed; she shrugged my hands off her.
She released her spell, and I could speak again.
“It’s fine. It’s going to be alright; we will just try it again, maybe tomorrow… I’ll find a way…
“Jade.” I called, but she wasn’t listening. “Jade!”
“What!”
“Behind you.
Slowly she turned.
Vox was alive. His completely black eyes trailed between Jade and me.
The sorceress fell on her knees, her head bowed in reverence to Vox the Demon Overlord.
I could sense his power, so strong I didn’t dare look him in the eye.
Chapter Seventy Two
He tore off the white material that had been used to cover his body.
‘I did as you asked; I brought you back to life.”
“You will meet him, Ralph.” Vox said.
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“Thank you.” She said, but she didn’t get it; she didn‘ understand what was happening even as Vox materialized before her and tore into her neck, drinking of her blood. She didn’t understand that Vox meant she would meet her lover in the otherworld.
Jade was one of the most powerful sorceresses alive, but to Vox she was… nothing.
I watched as he transformed from a lifeless corpse to a creature to be reckoned with. White mass of hair replaced the few grey strands that had been there a while ago; his skin remained pale, but now it had a glow to it. He stood tall and imposing, his presence commanding.
I waited for my death; even as he got closer. The chains Jade had spelled and used to bind me melted away just by his touch.
He freed me.
That action took me by surprise.
“I should kill you.” He said, “But you are different from the rest of my creatures, and I’m… intrigued. You will join me on my mission, and in the end, I will reward you with whatsoever you desire.”
“I only desire one thing. The death of the Luna Queen‘
“Many would have requested for other things: power, wealth.”
“I have no need for those things, Overlord.”
“I will grant it to you as you wish,” he said, offering me a hand, which I accepted. He lifted me to my feet. “And so much more.”
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