I slammed into him a second later, knocking us both back into one of the huge stones so hard it actually fell over. He fought me and threw me off him, just in time for us to see Adam standing before Pestilence. "I command you to serve me," he shouted. Hannah was only steps away, and I feared he would reach for her as his sacrifice—but then Adam grabbed Belphegor from beside him, and stabbed a glowing knife through her throat. She looked at him with wide, shocked eyes as her life spilled out of her neck, before she collapsed into the grass. "No!" Belial yelled, and many of the gargoyles around us screamed and cried out. Pestilence cackled. "A powerful sacrifice. Yes, you will make a fine vessel indeed." The specter rushed toward Adam and entered his body through his eyes, ears, nose, a

