Page 72 of Defying the Relic Hunter

“Why hasn’t he come for me?”

“Something is blocking us from locating you.”

“Again? Maybe I am in hell.”

“You are not in hell, Kizzy.”

The fuzzy-headiness and vertigo made it difficult to concentrate.“It sorta feels like it.”

A frantic Ethan linked with me.“Where are you Angel?”

“Dunno.”The cavern spun dizzily around me.“I seriously need some aspirin.”I wiped blood out of my eyes.“And your magic healing wand thingy.”

Ethan poured power into me.“Look around. What do you see?”

“I’m in another stupid cave.”I frowned. Was that water? I rubbed my eyes and looked again. Yep. Waves lapped over piles of Aztec armor.“I think I’m under the lakes. Asmoday swiped Dante Drago’s body so be on the lookout for him.”My gaze fixed on a bloody corpse floating in the water.“Never mind. Dante’s dead. You think Asmoday will try to possess me next?”

“As long as I’m linked with you, he can’t.”

“If he tries, you need to keep chanting ostium, fluminis, sont. It disrupts his power,” Granny advised.

I let out a relieved breath.“You’re the best Granny.What I don’t understand is how Asmoday got away?”

“He was somehow able to ditch Adan and the Enforcers in the vortex,”Ethan snarled.

Out of the shadows slithered a creepy half-human, half-snake monstrosity with Dante’s face. “You still live.” Its voice was a raspy hiss.

“Surprise.” I flashed Ethan the image of Asmoday’s new form.“I think you’re gonna need a laser cannon to kill that thing.”

Asmoday smiled, revealing two long curved fangs. “They cannot save you. You need the power of a God to break through my shields. I’m going to enjoy eating you.”

The cold fist of reality shattered my daze. I could die in this place. If I died, Ethan died and that wasn’t happening. I tapped my bracelet and the helmet formed around my head.“Granny give me a spell. Anything. Like now!”

A spell formed in my mind and I chanted, “Miraculum sepulcrum ibidem solus novem!”

Pure, burning white energy crackled wildly around the cavern and slammed into Asmoday. He howled in fury but kept coming.

Out of sheer desperation, I yelled, “Miraculin sepulcrum ibidem solus novum. Domum rotundam vivtorie construxit!” A portal opened on the cavern ceiling. “Go into the light, you fucking monster.”

“No! It cannot be,” Asmoday roared.

Slashes of green lightning pulsed over the cavern walls.

The portal suddenly vanished.

A twister formed and spat out two dark, wraith-like creatures.

Holy cow!“What are those?”

“Executioners. Stay away from them,”Ethan replied.

Enormous mouths edged with hundreds of serrated teeth appeared where the wraiths faces should be, and they viciously attacked Asmoday.

I scooted back. “Not gonna be a problem.”

Asmoday retreated into the water.

“Don’t let him touch the jade snake,”I shouted at the Executioners.

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