Liris turned towards the middle of the spell, towards Jadrhun, towards the wall he’d erected between them.

Liris snarled and flipped her spell pad to a shattering, whereas Vhannor adopted behind her, shut at her again to maintain the demons off it.

One other barrier went up, this one activated by a spell on the tapestry, and he or she took it down.

However not earlier than Jadrhun mentioned, “You’re too late.”

And when Liris appeared up, it was solely in time to absorb the sight of the spell Jadrhun activated as she watched.

Chapter 21

I do know why the universe likes circles. There’s an class within the inevitability; consolation within the acquainted.

Not for me.

This shut, Liris might see the spell, superbly intelligent and existentially horrific. Jadrhun had the ley energy, and he knew how you can magically anchor every realm. He had the whole lot he wanted to do what he wished, and he or she’d been too late to cease him.

In a single fell swoop, Jadrhun severed Gates in every of the 4 different realms Serenthuar had as soon as been geographically connected to earlier than the Sundering.

And on the identical time, he sundered Serenthuar.

Too late to matter. She’d missed her likelihood once more, all her efforts for naught.

Liris’ eyes swam as she compelled herself to bear witness, clenching her tooth in opposition to the scream clawing up her throat like a spell she’d misplaced management of, chaos determined for launch or aid.

It took her a second to appreciate nothing extra had occurred, dousing all her feelings like a bucket of ice water.

Jadrhun’s eyes widened on the identical second. That spell, untethering ley strains from every previously contiguous realm, ought to have triggered the subsequent layer of his sample, directing them to Serenthuar, since on the time of the Sundering the magic couldn’t find it by itself.

Liris scanned the sub-layers of the spell sample as Jadrhun did, confirming the magic gathered from destroying these Gates was nonetheless held, nonetheless prepared. Ready, like a spell lacking a variable that simply wouldn’t go, besides this wasn’t.

The spell hadn’t completed one thing aside from he meant. He hadn’t destroyed the realms, which might have been good news, besides if his anchors have been appropriate, and naturally they’d be, as a result of he’d examined them after gaining the data from—

Demons.

Jadrhun whirled madly to face them, and the world darkened as an unlimited shadow loomed over them.

“What did you do?” Jadrhun screamed on the demon.

Liris appeared up, stiffening because the demon’s shadows rearranged themselves right into a rictus of a toothy grin.

Then a sound, like a whisper and a shriek and a wind, like nothing of the bodily world:

“Your magic received’t work if there’s nothing to anchor it to, will it?”

The demon twisted, coiling round Jadrhun prefer it might communicate—in fact they might communicate, in fact it might be horrible, don’t suppose—immediately into his ear.

“Even a sundered realm that gathers its magic can solely maintain out so lengthy,” the demon hissed, taunted, screeched. “And we are able to work very quick.”

Demons might sense magic. A sundered realm, with its untethered ley magic, could be like a voiding beacon.

Jadrhun’s expression shattered.

Liris spelled, successive blasts of magic that blew the demon again away from him whereas he stood there surprised.

“Jadrhun, focus!” she screamed at him. “We’ve got to reattach Serenthuar!”

He shook his head sharply and gazed round all his cautious, stunning, ineffective preparations with broad, glassy eyes.

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