My Blood Wizard System
Shoulder height to my chest, nearly the size of a horse, silver-black fur rippling like liquid metal.
The rest of the pack followed—eleven beasts the size of ponies, eyes glowing ember-orange, circling the king in a ring of fangs.
Seras’s flames crowned her head in a living halo.
QUEENS 7 lay forgotten; she stood barefoot on cracked asphalt, maple pendant screaming light.
Julian stayed between me and the king, but his ruby eyes were wide.
“Celeste,” he whispered.
“Whatever you’re about to do—don’t hold back.”