Page 183 of Rose and Shadows
Gregor stumbled.
His power cut out for a brief moment.
There was a delay with him reigniting it as Mia fired upon him from behind.
And then Jaxon leapt forward with crazy speed, calling out, “Now, Kai!”
With a burst of teleportation, Kai was right there as Jaxon hit Gregor, snatching the staff away, just as Jaxon slashed his claws across Gregor’s throat.
Cornelius burst into the fray with an explosion of his silver power. As Gregor hit the ground on his ass, frantically trying to heal his gushing throat, spluttering as blood literally drenched his robes, Cornelius hauled him up by said throat, making him shudder all over.
“Your actions have damaged so many. Your rhetoric has poisoned the supernatural world. You have made a power play out of persecuting, harming, and murdering the innocent, the vulnerable. You are no mighty man. You are evil and madness colliding.”
In the next moment, Cornelius called his silver power to the fingertips of his free hand, and then I was jolting as he shoved his hand through Gregor’s chest.
Gregor lurched, eyes wide.
And then Cornelius jerked his hand free—Gregor’s heart in his palm.
Holy. Hell.
The light went out in that bastard’s eyes.
Cornelius released him, then spat on him.
His corpse.
Dead.
Gregor Varsellis was gone.
The leader ofPuritaswas dead.
It was… surreal.
There wasn’t time to process it right now, though, as his acolytes registered what had happened, then went wild, the battle ramping up to a whole other level to our right.
Fortunately, the left side that had been wielding Celestial power were curled up in balls now whimpering as the last of the Celestial power and black magic was pulled from them, causing weakness and a clear pained, maybe hollowed out sensation until they recovered.
I caught sight of Kai handing the staff to Ariana.
She grabbed it by the orb, his silver power flaring around it, and then it cracked into pieces, the remaining Celestial power Gregor had been trying to keep floating up into the air too.
Cries near me drew my attention to the right side of battle, and I looked to see ten of the soldiers—these ones vampires—tearing into a half dozen wolf-sorcerer hybrids, slashing through their clothes, some feeding on them.
Rhyza caught sight of some more being cornered and she bounded over there, claws out, battle cry sounding.
I thrust my shadows at the ten vampires, ripping them off the hybrids by capturing them in a funnel cloud. As I swept them away, I directed the funnel through the battlefield, picking upotherPuritasassholes along the way, until I’d cleared out fifty of them.
Then I twisted my right hand, the funnel collapsing, and the soldiers falling out onto the grass unconscious.
Guardians descended on them, slapping cuffs to them, preparing them for transfer toThe Voidonce this battle was done.
As I blasted back two Light Fae coming at me from the left with my purple power, I caught sight of Nyx sailing and flipping through the air, bouncing off soldiers, blasting them unconscious with his blue power as he executed his impressive parkour moves.
Kai joined this side of the battle then, now that the Celestial aspect was done, and in typical Kai fashion, strode right through the middle of the battlefield, clearing a path with his rose-gold power without stopping, soldiers shrieking and flying into the air, others slamming into their buddies and creating domino effects.
I felt a rush of movement coming from my right and I spun, my Dark Fae power at the ready, just as ten vampires and five sorcerers lunged at me.
