Chapter 515: Monsters
The spear shot into the air and flew across the Villa District, ripping through buildings in a high-pitched whistling noise. Svartna tore past the Mora estate and lanced straight through Xyloth’s elbow. The dragonbane flinched back and dropped Maeve. He roared in pain and held his limp bleeding arm.
Svartna landed in the mud two paces in front of its master, standing tall and proud, and covered in black ichor.
Faint, cold light leaked from Stryg’s blue skin. He slowly stood up and opened his eyes. His slit pupils were narrow and the lilac irises had expanded, covering the sclera. His vision had fallen into a world of black shades and silver rippling outlines. There was only one he saw, one being who held his attention.
The dragonbane.
Stryg reached out and seized Svartna. The cold touch of chaos mana flowed through his body and into the spear, bathing Svartna in a faint blue glow.
Translucent flesh and grey muscles knitted themselves back together over Xyloth’s elbow. The black ichor covering his arm pulled back into the wound until there was nothing left, not even a blemish. He turned on Stryg and he swiped his tail at the mansion’s wreckage, sending debris flying everywhere.
Maeve threw her hands over her head and curled in a ball as bricks and broken wood fell all around her. The sight of the vampiress cowering sent a pang of worry through Stryg, but it was drowned out by the cold primal sensation consuming him.
Xyloth stared at the small blue creature in mild confusion. He tried to draw in the goblin’s mana, but there was nothing left to feed upon, and yet there the goblin stood, overflowing with strange energies. The spear was somehow feeding him power. An instinctual hunger filled Xyloth and he snarled at his prey in envious greed.
Spreading his feet apart, the dragonbane planted his hands on the ground and roared. The ground shook from the deep below and sent tremors across the entire estate. Stryg glared at him and screamed an unnatural noise of unbridled rage. Maeve flinched at the ear-splitting sound and cried out in pain.