Setser looked in the direction of Mount Marrac, felt his skin tingle, then said:
"Something sinister has appeared."
Huv Loper, who had activated a demonic resonance spell and his demonic perception, had to deactivate both.
"The second time. An incomplete abyssal summoning," thought Huv Loper, who remembered how Archduke Arcariz and Director Merliano had contained the incomplete summoning released by the infamous warlock Cabrat Vercen in the city of Damtes.
••••
Alastor was still lying on the ground when a mist appeared beside him.
"You've come to curse me," Alastor said mockingly.
"It's surprising that you've been defeated," Cabrat said, almost at the same time as he inhaled the smoke from his sinister pipe shaped like a monkey's paw.
Cabrat exhaled, and the smoke that emerged surrounded Alastor and lifted him up, carrying him toward the dark mist from which Cabrat had appeared.
