It would never have been as powerful as my true magic. Alexander had to talk Lorenzo into taking his magic back.

[Something that still stings, and something Lorenzo Rey will never let him live down. And since they're both immortals, he'll be putting up with that smug satisfaction for a very long time. Magnus rolls his eyes.]

If only it were that easy, but sacrificing a goat never really did anything. Killing something just puts the mundane in the right mental space to reach out to a Greater Demon. No, keeping my magic along with his makes him the most powerful demon in Edom. That amount of power is too much of a draw. I'm just. Stuck.