"The sword is casting magic?" Phloria stared in horror at the edge of the artifact as it turned into small jagged fangs that gnashed non-stop to chant the spell faster and at the shining shackles it produced.
'I can't fall like this. Even if I fail my mission, I refuse to let Verhen win without even casting a single-' As light fusion cleared her blurred vision, Linnea realized that after bidding her goodbye Lith had really left the room.
'By my Mom, when the Queen puts it like that, I'm tempted to forget what big of an asshole you actually are and join your fan club.' Solus projected the image of Tiamat-inspired merchandise going from t-shirts to action figures.
"You gave us quite a scare, young man." Jirni said. "I was aware of the Void Magus title, but everything else was off script. How did you convince the Crown to pull a stunt like that?"
Not only were the runes different from how she remembered them, but the energy of her spell had been absorbed instead of scattered. While she was still making heads or tails of Yurial's Hexagram, Lith took a deep breath.