Page 412 of Blood and Ruin: The Complete Series

Expanding my senses further out, I move past hundreds of more demons before reaching the middle of the expanse. I’m about to move past it when I come across a large area devoid of energy. I sense no demons, no supes, just… nothing.

Maybe Rion is right, and King is shielding himself.

I pull back, ready to move toward it. I make a few feet past the barrier when something large moves to the left of me. Turning, I find a dozen hellhounds strolling through the demons, their focus on the handful of supes holding their own against them.

I pull my energy up, ready to push it toward them when the hellhounds freeze, all glancing up at once, as Kai in his Cerberus form appears. He splits the demon crowd in half, destroying most of them as he makes his way toward them.

They take a step back when Kai’s eyes pulse red, making them pause. His hounds tilt their heads, their entire focus on the hellhounds.

As one, the hellhounds bow, lowering their heads to the ground in submission. Kai’s hellhounds glance over at me before looking back at them.

Within seconds they’re moving as one under Kai’s command as they rip through every demon in the vicinity. Kai joins in until there’s nothing but pieces of them left.

Pulling my power to the surface, I let it sit under my skin, ready for anything before I make a move toward the middle of the expanse.

The group of hellhounds turn back to me and span out around me before moving forward with me. A shadow casts over me from behind. I turn to find Kai behind me, guarding my back.

I shake my head to myself, smiling.

The closer we move into the fray; the more demons turn to attack us. My power seeps out around me when Kai jumps over me, ripping through them while his new guard dogs protect our sides.

As if by instinct, my power lashes out and attacks a group of demons trying to overwhelm one of the hellhounds. Once it touches them, they burn up and turn to dust.

The hellhound dips its head in a thank you before moving on to the next demon. We make it halfway to the middle when I spot Axel as he swoops back up into the sky.

He stays there while the other dragons gather around him in a type of circular formation, with him in the middle.

A loud rumble echoes throughout the sky before the air shifts and gathers around Axel. Reaching out with my senses, I watch on as they all gather the energy and push it toward Axel.

The rumble grows louder and louder as Axel’s dragon stays in the circular formation. Just as the sound begins to turn deafening, Axel pushes the energy toward a group of large demons below.

It hits them instantly, destroying them on impact.

Axel does it again and again, keeping the formation and decimating a huge chunk of the large demons.

I look back at the path in front of me, seeing it clearly. Kai is behind me once more and the hellhounds keep still on lookout, as if waiting for me.

I quicken my pace, getting a few feet away from the strange empty energy, when a huge horde of demons appears from nowhere.

A streak of blue and orange flames shoots past me as Jax and Luka rush through the nearest demons, both shadowing through them and turning them instantly to ash.

I narrow my eyes on them as they move on to the rest of them. With their backs to me, I watch as their flames swirl together, mixing as one, growing and expanding until there’s a huge mass in front of them.

Once they’re ready, it bursts forward, destroying every demon within a half-a-mile radius.

Damn. I guess Luka and his wolf finally coming together also came with an upgrade for him and Jax too. Or maybe it was something they were always supposed to have as twin shadow wolves, but because of what happened with Luka, it never got that far.

Either way, it’s one hell of a power. Something I’m sure Jax is enjoying.

As if agreeing with me Jax’s wolf rushes over circling me with Luka soon joining. They both nuzzle into me before heading back in to attack more demons.

I glance around the expanse. Most of the demons near me are gone, destroyed by my mates. I start to relax, thinking we’ve finally got the upper hand.

And then I see them.

Horde upon horde of demons all making their way over to us.

Vibrations shake the ground, distracting me as Rion’s basilisk appears a few feet in front of me.

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