“I thought higher demons chose their pactees a bit more carefully,” she threw her bait. Without knowing anything about the demon, she was at a disadvantage. Dealing with him would be more difficult than outsmarting Pardayi, and he’d kept too far away for her to try binding him, even though she needed his name anyway.
“Carefully picking a tool I’m only going to use once is a waste of time. Humans are to serve their purpose and die.” He looked at Veelk, fighting at the far side of the barrier, and suddenly all the demonlings shrieked and backed away, gathering around Hafnis and the demon, making it clear it wasn’t the arcanist who controlled them. “We have time. We’ll summon many more and crush your little barrier. How much longer can you hold it anyway, pactee?”
Kamira accepted the challe
