Chapter 385: The Killing Intent Test
The structure assembled itself in Regulus's mind: a sphere folding inward, every layer collapsing toward the center.
Magic packed down to the limit. Each piece sat exactly where it belonged, all of it aimed at the same result.
Make the target stop being whole. Strip away the very idea of what it was.
The Decomposition Curse.
A presence seeped from him, nothing like Fiendfyre.
Fiendfyre wanted to consume. It wanted to burn its victim until nothing was left but part of the fire.
The Decomposition Curse didn't care about any of that. It erased. Being hit by it wasn't really death, because death meant something had lived first. This went beneath that. It reduced a living thing to scattered pieces that no longer counted as alive, and there was no coming back from it.
The pressure touched Greyback.
His reaction put the last one to shame.