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Chapter 342

Hybris clutched her side, her eyes wild and furious.

Liiiiliiiith.

A gnarled talon brushed the back of my neck and I spun around, chest heaving, aflame with magic for one brilliant moment.

Hybris peered into the gloom, then, her face pinched with fear, vanished.

Liiiiiliiiith.

I pushed to my feet and amped up my magic as high as it could go. I tried to fight the fog, squinting through the ashy streaks on my face and the gloom to find the cow skull demon with the ram's horns, but it was like taking potshots at a phantom.

The fog nipped me hard enough to startle me.

A gift, the demon said.

The fog coalesced into a mouth poised over a silhouetted figure.

"No!" I screamed. I couldn't tell who was friend or foe.

The fog mouth grew serrated teeth and clamped down on the head, popping it clean off the body. Then the fog convulsed, as if swallowing, and the body fell to the ground.

I shoved my trembling fist into my mouth.