Adam's burning crimson eyes took in the scene in a single, devastating instant. Ignis, on one knee with dark energy festering in her wounds. Lilith, already moving to her side, her hands glowing with a stabilizing psychic weave. And Elise, held captive but with relief flooding her features at his arrival.
The relief was immediately crushed under a wave of cold fury.
The Lich, still wearing the disintegrating assassin, snarled. "This time, I will erase you!" The stolen body began to glow with a dangerous, overloaded green light, even as the flesh cracked and blackened.
