Tressa’s smirk widened as she snapped her fingers “Let’s show a sample of how the option to looks to my mother here” and as these words were out her mouth one of the knights immediately seized Nathaniel’s wrist and forced his palm against the crystal and activated it.
A piercing scream shattered the air as Nathaniel’s body arched as dark energy coursed through him, the crystal pulsing as it greedily drained his power. The veins in his hand darkened, spreading up his arm like creeping vines, his lips parted in agony.
Elizabeth’s eyes widened in horror as she instantly turned to Tressa and pleaded her “Stop it! Please…Stop…”
Liam moved too, but Silva shifted, pressing his blade against Liam’s already wounded side, halting him in his tracks “I wouldn’t,” Silva murmured as he pointed in Elena and Alisha’s direction where his other knights pointed their blades at them.
