"Isn’t the water cold, mommy? Have you become a mage like uncle Lith?" Leria asked, incapable of speaking louder than a whisper.
"Hush, my child. Go back to sleep." Jolia caressed Leria’s small head and her Mesmerize made the child lose consciousness.
"My baby." Jolia literally cried a river that entered Leria’s nose and mouth, emitting a gurgling sound. "I won’t let anyone hurt you. I’m doing this because I love you and I can’t bear the thought of living without you." frёewebnoѵēl.com
In her mind, the image of her long dead daughter overlapped with Leria as Jolia repeated the same words she had said before taking both their lives.
The water flooding the small lungs also sucked the child’s life force and replaced Jolia’s suffering with the ecstasy of the feed, giving her a pleasure that made the entirety of Mogar fade away for a few precious moments.
It was then that Abominus, Leria’s steed whenever she played in the fields of Lutia and her bodyguard the rest of the time, came out of the pile of toys next to the door.
His cloaking ring hid both his life force and smell, while the Orichalcum mouthpiece that covered his fangs was imbued with enough darkness magic to kill an elephant.
The Ry exploited the undead’s feeding frenzy to bite at her neck, decapitating Jolia with a twist of his powerful jaws while the magic of the mouthpiece destroyed her body.
The water disappeared along with the White Lady as the stolen life force returned to its rightful owner. Leria gasped for air, crying for her mother at the top of her lungs while Abominus emitted a long, guttural howl that reached the Trawn Woods, alerting his pack.
"Oh, fuck!" With no more time to lose, Quaro opened Rena’s door just a split second before a few hundred kilograms of red fur and unbridled fury jumped on her back, ripping her spine out.
The Vampire emitted a pulse of darkness magic that sent Abominus flying and turned his fur into a sickly shade of green.
"Don’t worry about me and kill them!" Quaro’s spine was already fixing itself, but the injury needed a few seconds before healing enough to allow her to move again.
Brago rushed inside while Rena still stared dumbly at the two intruders without stopping to breastfed her child. The room started to spin and suddenly there was blood everywhere.
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Nalrond’s flight stopped abruptly a few hundreds of meters from Selia’s home, but he didn’t slow down. He just curled up in a ball, using air fusion to roll faster and earth magic to remove all obstacles from his path.
He didn’t need his eyes to perceive magical formations or the presence of undead. He could feel that the house was surrounded through the scales covering his anteater-like body.
The only reason why the undead had yet to finish their job was the several arrays that Protector had left to guard his family. He wasn’t a Warden as good as Lith, but Faluel’s help in setting them up had made the formation a tough nut to crack.
Yet without someone to protect them, the arrays could be easily dismantled and Protector had built them only to give Faluel the time to arrive. They were meant to stall, not to kill.
One of the undead noticed the car-sized incoming cannonball and tried to stop it. The moment the Rezar felt his momentum decreasing, he raised his scales to expose their razor-sharp edge and infused them with air and darkness magic.
The enemy could stop his advance, but his rotation speed was unaffected by the living obstacle.
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