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a way that actually gave me more power! This was the first time I’d seen that skill class upgrade come into effect, and I was impressed.

I thrust forward with the sword and watched with excitement as the blast of lightning went right back at her. She held up both hands in annoyance, causing the lightning to bounce off of her. At least it took out a goblin and sent Captain Hook, who had just recovered, stumbling back, his hair smoldering and eyes looking dazed.

An explosion sounded and I turned to see Morganna looking dazed, but pissed. Sekhmet was there, scepter in hand, grinning. With her at the reins, I took the opportunity to upgrade as fast as I could—I’d need everything I could get. A quick upgrade to the shield that would send a shield stun out and then I paused, grinning. My group Tempest attack was ready, and I had the Ichor point!

It was mine, and now I couldn’t wait to try it out.

Morganna and Sekhmet were facing off, all hell about to break loose.

“You want a plaything, is that it?” Morganna said to Sekhmet with a sneer. “See, I’m too busy for you… so let’s see if your friends can come out to play.”

None of us knew what she was talking about, I was sure, until she brought up one hand and one of the massive standing stones fell backwards, breaking the ground around it. A moment later, hands reached up, pushing dirt aside, and I expected skeletons or zombies to come stumbling out.

Instead, it was our enemy from the tombs, Isis herself. She wasn’t alone, however. Crawling out at her side and then standing tall with a roar of exaltation to be free was a man I hadn’t seen before, but one who wore Egyptian robes and had bursts of silver and black coming out of him like twisting light.

Sekhmet took a step back, fell to one knee, and her mouth hung open. Apparently, this man was the last person she wanted to see right now. It was Ptah, her former lover who had deserted her for Isis. All this time Sekhmet had guarded against this moment, and now he was free to do his worst again, thanks to Morganna.

“Enjoy the gift,” Morganna cackled, returning to her magic to attack me as I charged again. At least I was putting up a bit of a fight, now that I knew I could absorb certain Tempest spells and use the sword to shoot them back, even if it was only hitting the surrounding monsters and distracting her.

Two large lizards came up from my rear while a small man with a crooked nose—Rumpelstiltskin, maybe?—leaped at me with a dagger, but I was charged up and spun on them, cutting through one lizard and sending blasts of icy wind at the others. While the small man was preparing another attack, three Shades emerged from his shadow and came at me, but I struck them down with Excalibur boosting out, expanding and shining double. I took the prana while he stumbled back, weakened.

Right now, I didn’t see the point in leaving the Legends alive. Too much was at stake. So as much as they’d warned me against it, I charged the man and removed his head with an amplified, clean strike, absorbing his Ichor a moment later. Bam—level thirteen, and I had an Ichor to use.

“Be careful!” Sekhmet shouted as she came to my side, and I almost snapped back at her. She saw the look in my eyes, and pointed at Isis and the man. “They’re our enemies here. You defeat, you capture—kill if you have to—but remember that every life you take by choice, rather than because you’re left without any other option, affects you, breaks down your resolve to fight the shadow.

She was right, of course. I was already feeling like an ass, like an ass who wanted to take more lives and do nasty things. Note to self—killing, bad. Stop it.

Isis roared with laughter, flying at me with her claws at the ready, and the man darted forward in bursts that reminded me of horror movies from the nineties. Luckily for me, Sekhmet, Bastet and Nivian were with me, the four of us going back-to-back in a loose square as the enemies closed around us. The biggest threat seemed to be this new couple, although we still had to deal with the easier foes.

Bastet was weaving purple shields and clawing away like a champion, and my tattoos and Excalibur were in full blue flame mode, bursts like electricity even running up the sword and sending an extra oomph into each strike.

Blast after blast suddenly shot out from Sekhmet’s scepter, but they seemed to be missing something, as if she couldn’t fully commit to striking down this man. Of course, he had once been everything to her, by my understanding, so it would have to be one of us who dealt the final blow.

He flashed over to her and held out his hands, darkness channeling through him and toward her, so that she fell to her knees, screaming, and the scepter started to slip from her hands. Bastet came to her rescue, the cat darting between Sekhmet’s legs and leaping to get a good set of claws dug into the man’s groin—he fell back, cursing, trying to swat her off.

Meanwhile I was trying to work toward them, using my new group attack in ways that were blowing my mind. If I thrust into the air focusing on the attack, bursts of electricity shot out, hitting surrounding enemies. A good thrust into the ground would send a shockwave like tremors through the earth, knocking them down. I couldn’t wait to see what would happen around water or other elements. Still, I wasn’t getting there fast enough.

The man was almost up when I got a lucky shot, boosted by Nivian, that blasted him in the face. With his power, the blast didn’t do lasting damage but sent him back on

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