I did that with an earlier scene and my beta readers were unhappy. This is very much a Buffy/Supernatural style story. I have to write the battles.

Magic definitely needs limits otherwise the characters are basically gods and there's no tension there.

definitely and now knowing what clue Elio has, I get why he's important to the story (talking about those imps) otherwise I wasn't sure why he needed to be there but he was insisting