The world blurred into a motion-drenched haze.
The lich's attention locked onto the rising star that was Dominic Kane. Its jaws parted, and the dark energy around it compressed into a single, terrible focus.
"You persistent little pest!" it bellowed, its thunderous voice shaking the heavens, resonating with fury and disdain. "You think you can stop me? You're nothing! A lowly cockroach crawling toward the inevitable boot that will crush you!"
It lifted one gnarled hand.
The beam of pure annihilation that had been erasing the city now turned. It was the same attack, the same colossal pillar of absolute darkness that had been carving a path through the capital. It shifted, swung, and aimed directly at Dominic. A column of nothingness, so deep black that it seemed to devour all surrounding light, shot toward him with the weight of a falling sky.
Dominic flew straight into it.
