"Shadow beam," Lucius whispered finally, right as the creature coming from the pentagram was about to be fully released.
Using the same template as [moon beam], [shadow beam] took a large chunk of the energy he had, and set it loose upon the pentagram and its monstrosity.
An almost solid pillar of shadows erupted from the cacoon and rammed against the pentagram.
It didn't seem to cause any visible damage to the creature that was about to be unleashed, but it managed to completely destroy the pentagram from which it was coming.
At that moment, the hands under Lucius's control got a hold of the sceptre and pried it from the hands of the corpse.
Lucius's body was now visible, the shadow cacoon that had been covering him, completely sacrificed to cast [shadow beam]. However, there would be no need for it now.
