With every slash the body of Anthos twitched, clawing hands grasped for Ris her neck but it was futile. She was destroyed, and would finally have rest.
Ris didn't notice it at first but in hindsight, she felt like some of the magic that bound Anthos rubbed off of her. Like a cold shower. It was gone now though.

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Algon sat in his throne, dozens of large lacrima floated around his command station. One of them displayed a horrific sight, his magic had invaded Ris's mind. He had made no attempts to control or even distract her, all he had done was extract her sight. What Ris could see was displayed on a large crystal screen that hovered in front of Life. So she could witness every cut and every stab.
"Is this what you wanted miss Black? Is this what you left us for? For these savages?"
He relinquished control over Life, she was free to move and act as she wanted to.
A small bald man in an expensive suit hurried over to Algon's outstretched hand, on a silver plate stood two glasses of dark red wine and the Wendigo Wail stamp.

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Ciskel looked horrified at the body of Anthos. Then looked skeptically at Gao, so Eli did all that in less than 5 minutes?"
He thought he'd seen a shovel somewhere...