The glass-like surface of the water was broken when the Vile Thieving Bird plunged into it, sending a towering plume of foam into the air and erasing the reflection of the Demon of Destiny from the surface of the Great River.
However, the damage had already been done.
The Thieving Bird would have easily endured being exposed to the echo of a daemon's killing intent on any other day... but not today.
Because today, it had already been weakened by the curses of three Supreme carriers of the Nightmare Spell, burned by the soul flame of Changing Star of the Immortal Flame clan — which was especially destructive when it touched anything tainted by the Corruption — and poisoned by the Death Will of the Lord of Shadows.
Nether's killing intent was the last drop.
