Chapter 74 The Price Of Power

• The word of banishment hung in the air like a blade suspended over reality itself, waiting for my will to give it the force needed to sever the demons' connection to our realm permanently. But speaking it would mean condemning myself along with them—the binding ritual had made me as much a creature of their dimension as of the mortal world.
• "Seraphina, no!" Kael's voice cut through the supernatural chaos, understanding immediately what I intended to do.
• Around us, the battle had devolved into something beyond conventional warfare. My thirteen bound demons rampaged across the field with increasing independence, their hunger for destruction overriding the control I could no longer maintain. Lord Cassius's forces fought desperately against creatures that existed partially outside physical reality, while our soldiers tried to avoid being caught in the crossfire of otherworldly violence.