Draven lost consciousness when I extracted the silver worm from inside his head. It quickly vanished into my palm.
“I still wonder how you manage to control such a dangerous creature,” Zane said, watching my palm.
I shrugged. “Beats me; I wonder too. Someone once told me that if you retrieve it yourself from the devil’s lair and feed it your own blood, it becomes obedient to you.”
“The battle has not ended yet, Yexa,” he said softly.
I nodded, biting my own arm to draw my blood quickly. I encircled Draven, using the power of the crystal to create a cage from the ground beneath us. I muttered a powerful spell and confined myself within that cage. This meant that as long as I was alive and breathing, Draven could never escape from that prison.
“I’ll be the one to go back and report to o
