Adam frowned at the monster as it rolled about at random. At this rate it was going to smash every building in the city.
"Did you kill the apprentice who summoned it?" Adam asked the devil.
The devil nodded hastily. "Killed him, killed him! That kid was weak as anything—once the negative energy hit him, he went crazy and mutilated himself. He died quick."
Adam fell into thought. This was probably why the Om family, weakest in the eyes of him and the other war Mages, could still hold ground on Ceylon Island. Ancient mages likely all had mental defects, and negative-energy magic would trigger those defects and spread them, until the mind gave way.
Adam summoned a gigantic bolt of lightning, hammered it down on the monster, then turned and flew off toward the edge of the city. The monster's master was already dead; with no one to command it, the monster had no intelligence to speak of, and the moment it saw Adam run, it gave chase without a heartbeat's hesitation.