153: As it happens
Maria was late to the execution and it was her own fault. The scene she saw looked right out of her nightmare but Maria powered through it. The time for reflection and remembrance would come, but not right now. It was not time yet for her to act on her feelings.
It was time to be tactical and make sure she took down the dictator as soon as possible. The spell he had cast was already powering up but it felt wrong to the female. It was pulsing with an unknown energy and was not even discriminating between humans and demons.
Maria knew there had to be something wrong with this spell. The way it was behaving was not natural. While Maria was not an expert in magic theory, she could tell that the original spell had been tampered with. She carefully navigated the spell, making sure to not step on any of the triggers as she ventured deeper into the magic circle.