Witch Circe finally yielded to Shane's threat of force.
Immortal or not, her eternally youthful body still feared pain.
"Exquisite Beast Transformation-Reversal."
A familiar torrent of magic swept over them, and Donna, who had become a giant eagle, and Tula, who had become a sea serpent, finally returned to their original forms.
The sight was honestly rather horrifying. To ordinary eyes, the magical light effects concealed the transformation from beast to human, making the process impossible to see clearly.
But Shane could now perceive even the essence of magic as it activated, so those light effects, perhaps intended to prettify the process, might as well not have existed for him.
Flesh swelled, scales and feathers burrowed forcibly beneath the skin and vanished, and bones rearranged themselves within the flesh with loud cracks.
The changes to their faces were especially disturbing.
Who could imagine a bird's head and a snake's head slowly turning into human heads as sinew, bone, skin, and flesh transformed?
"Oh, that's a little disgusting."
Shane felt he might not be able to eat dinner that night. To prevent Witch Circe from pulling any tricks during the process, he had watched both team members transform back from beginning to end.
It was more disgusting than any mountain of corpses or sea of blood he had ever witnessed, a sight that severely challenged human notions of ethics and morality. By the time Tula and Donna had dressed with the help of several other female team members, Shane was already getting a headache over what to do with Witch Circe.
It was not as though killing her was completely impossible. The witch simply possessed greater vitality than ordinary beings.
And Shane was far beyond ordinary himself.
But the problem was that Witch Circe had Hecate behind her, and Hecate's current