“You didn’t think it would be that easy, did you?” the queen purred, rising from her throne. She stepped over the broken God-Killer like it was a child’s toy. “I am not some petty demon to be banished with a sharp rock and good intentions. I am the end of your kind. I am the silence after your last word. And you—” She looked at Kaelen, at Sera, at the hooded figure. “—are the last three people in this world who still remember how to fight.”
They reached the pedestal as the first of the throne room’s guardians materialized—shapes of shadow and jagged metal, coalescing from the corners of the room. Sera spun and engaged them, her twin daggers flashing, buying seconds. Kaelen stood at her back, cutting down any that slipped past. Overthrow- The Demon Queen 1
“You think that shard can hurt me? I let you find it. I let you steal it. I let you walk through my palace, past my guards, to this very spot. Do you know why?” “You didn’t think it would be that easy, did you