By the time I made my way over there I was forced to face what I had done. This was because everything that happened after the point of asking Nero to trust me, I had unconsciously allowed to come back to me. It started with raising my arms up and out to my sides as I unleashed the same wave of destruction I had the first time when back in the field.
I also remembered seeing Lucius' brother quickly creating a portal before stepping through it and slipping into another realm. This was naturally and unfortunately done before any of my power could touch him. The first stretch of my power had obliterated the Harpies closest to me, meaning little was left other than grey dust and particles still floating in the air.
The ones beyond this radius had managed to escape this instant death, but in the end, it was a mercy they had missed out on. This was because my power didn't stop at just the first wave, but instead it continued, and I found myself with the ability to control elements of it.
In one instance, I had lifted a hand and pointed to where I wanted it to travel and then watched as tentacles and curled streams of red essence shot from my fingertips. It then lassoed itself onto the Harpies like some beast from the sea. Once it had hold of them, I closed my fist and drew back my power, unsure of what had prompted me to do this. It was as if a natural instinct had taken over my entire vessel, and what my actions became were second nature. Because clawing back on that power had meant draining the Harpies of their blood, leaving nothing behind but fleshless crusts of dead husks.
I watched again as at the time I must have felt the presence of one sneaking up behind me. No doubt believing with my back turned I could be taken down. I suppose at the sight of her entire race dying all around her then what choice did she have but to try. After all, desperation can lead to desperate actions that more likely than not, got you killed.
Which was the case with this one, as at the time I had continued to test the limits of these new abilities using her as target practice. So, this time instead of extracting the blood from her, as I had done with the others, I turned it around and pushed the tentacles and streams of blood I had taken, now into her. And doing so with so much force, that this time it made her explode, unable to contain much more blood that her body was capable of. It literally ripped her skin apart like the seams of an overstuffed doll and in the depths of my fury, I didn’t even flinch.
I watched as a few fortunate Harpies decided to save themselves and take flight, but it was the Queen I was most concerned about. For it was the Queen that I had sworn an oath to kill. That same need for revenge was what was still fuelling this untamed power inside of me.
I called to the Eye, lifting it with my mind and bringing it to me, and the second another Harpy got close and tried her chance of bringing me down, I forcefully thrust it into her chest so she would have no choice but to touch it. Taking unwanted hold of what wasn't rightfully hers to take. The same thing happened that Lucius’ brother had demanded the Harpy Queen do to her offspring. It tested her worth and found it lacking.
The Harpy’s face froze in horror, as would anyone's if seconds before their death, they were shown it. Needless to say, that when she burst into a cloud of black sand, the dangerous and cruel darkness inside of me grinned at the sight.
Once the power of the Eye was finished recapping back all that I had done and forcing me to see it, I found myself bent over gasping for breath. It was of little wonder once this power was spent that I had passed out. I was just thankful that I hadn't needed to sleep for as long as I did last time. But then again, at the moment I was not afflicted by the Hex on my back, which had most likely caused the damage.
I finally gained my breath and locked back on my target as I saw