Page 87 of Witch Queen

“I can sense Anya’s Illusion Sorcery,” she told Vlad and Cortes. “She must have used her powers to calm them so they would not panic.”

And I suspect to help evacuation efforts.

Her gaze swiveled to where the Empire State Building once stood. Gold glinted high up in the sky.

Tension tightened Cortes’s jaw. “Is that where Anya is?!”

Mae nodded. “She’s safe. Violet, Miles, and Jared are with her.” She cracked her neck and knuckles and scanned the battleground with a calculated stare. “How about we wrap things up here?”

Arcane Magic bloomed around Cortes and Popo. “I’d thought you’d never ask.”

“Let’s go kill some monsters, Tarang,” Vlad said in a hard voice.

The tiger growled. The incubus energy that flowed from them had Mae and Cortes staring.

“What?”

“I think you’re gonna charm the pants off those ghouls,” Cortes told the incubus bluntly.

“Yeah,” Mae muttered.

Vlad curled a lip. “Like I want to see that shit.”

Tarang huffed.

The ground shook up ahead.

Spheres of power blossomed around their fists at the sight of the horde of hellish creatures charging toward them.

CHAPTERTHIRTY-TWO

A blaze ignitedMae’s stomach, startling her.

Her gaze jerked to Brimstone.

The demon fox’s chest swelled a second before he opened his jaws and releasedWrath. The orb flashed through the air with a high-pitched whine, blasted most of the incoming enemy to smithereens, and took a chunk out of an iconic bridge in the distance.

Mae, Vlad, and Cortes gave Brimstone a pointed look as debris rained down into the lake below.

“That was an acceptable loss under the circumstances,” the fox said, unabashed.

Hellreaver zoomed after the remaining creatures with an evil cackle.

Mae’s hair fluttered around her shoulders as magic unfurled from her cores and roared through her bloodstream. She levitated to some hundred feet above the ground.

From that height, she had a better impression of where her allies, and the foes they were dealing with, were located. She unleashed her first spells.

“Soul Guard!Augment!”

Startled cries rose from the sorcerers and witches clashing with Vedran’s monstrous army as her magic reinforced theSoul Shieldshe had placed inside them. A few spotted her and pointed, excitement lighting up their faces.

Mae was about to focus her magic into her next spells when movement below drew her gaze and made her pause.

Hellreaver tore seamlessly through entire packs of beasts, his blades carving his targets in half before they even sensed his presence.

Brimstone invokedWrathagain and again as he decimated the fast-moving devils trying to attack him, the power of the spell undiminished even though he unleashed it repeatedly.

Arcane Magic burned dozens of ghouls as Cortes wielded his blade and whip with deadly efficiency, his eyes and those of his familiar blazing with incandescent brightness.

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