---- BAM! It was useless. His face mmed into something hard and he fell to the ground. He looked up in panic, crawling backward. "No, no! I was going to take you to her! I can tell you everything I know about Victoria!" Zarek appeared before him in a second. "Of course you''ll talk, you piss-stained rat... you''ll sing like a soprano real soon." A mocking, distorted female voice whispered in his ear. His arms were pinned down, and his face came eye-to-eye with a pale woman wearing a veil.


    "No, no... let me go!" Edgar tried to get up, but the Victoria look-alike slowly lifted the delicatece from her face and stared into his eyes. ---- What the vampire saw made him vomit instantly. "Now you''ve pissed me off, you little bitch!" she roared in rage, sinking her ws into his skin all the way to the bone. "Aaah!" "Master, can we y with him?" the other woman asked Zarek with a wicked smile.


    "Do whatever you want, after he takes us to the portal." seek About fifteen minutester, Zarek was walking toward the distant sorcerer city, eyeing the grand pce atop the hill. Let them sleep peacefully tonight... because tomorrow they''d learn the bnce of power had changed. Almost bled to death, what was left of Edgar was dragged through the forest behind the city. They arrived at a cave with a narrow, dark entrance.


    "Hey, we agreed that one of the testicles would be mine!" ---- "Silence." Zarek shut down the bickering behind him. The undead soldiers were fierce, but he remembered why he tolerated the female creations too They were more cruel and creative with torture than the males. Zarek summoned his magic, and his body transformed into a bat that flew through the tunnels and narrow corridors. He could feel it... the lingering energy flow.


    He reached the end of the cave, where a wall was blocked by fallen rocks. Zarek reappeared in front of it and stretched out his hand, trying to blend his selenic magic with the gravel and soil of the copse. "Damn it," he muttered through clenched teeth.