CHOSEN LAST
Around us, the coalition fighters suddenly froze, several of them crying out in obvious distress as whatever connection they had established with the corrupted magic apparently severed abruptly with the ritual’s reversal.
Cole Ashworth stumbled backward, his expression carrying shock and fury in equal measure. “What did you do?” he demanded, though his voice carried obvious desperation now rather than his previous confident authority.
“I reversed it,” I managed weakly, still trembling from the intense exertion and pain I’d just survived. “Whatever you were planning to accomplish, whatever corruption you had already established, it’s gone now.”
The coalition fighters, seemingly disoriented an