"Come with me and I will give you the world you want. Come with me and none of them will get hurt. Come with me and everything that you don’t need to feel the pain." Decratic stretched out his hand again for Iris to take. His red eyes showed obsession. "You don’t want to see what I can do in this lifetime too, Na."
Iris stared at Decratic stretched out hand and took it. By this time, Zale’s face had turned very red and Aliana almost lost her consciousness, but she still tried to shake her head, indicating for Iris not to do that.
In a long run, Cane’s plan to involve the Serafim and the Holy Kingdom in order to protect Iris was right. No matter how many warriors he put around her, it wouldn’t work, when the creature they faced was Decratic.
As shifter, they didn’t have the capacity to counter the dark magic power that Decratic held. This instance was the perfect example for what Cane worried the most.
Unfortunately, he miscalculated the involvement of Decratic himself in this chaotic situation. None of them knew whether or not the Decratic had been revived, they could only guest what might happen, but the fact he got himself involved right now was an unpleasant surprise.
"Great," Decratic sighed when he grabbed Iris’s hand.
A smile appeared on the corner of his eyes, but it immediately dropped when he noticed something. His red eyes trailed down from her face to her flat stomach. Anger and hatred flashed in his scary eyes.
"Babies..."
At the same time, Iris used her other hand to pull a white dagger from her dress and made a slashing movement very fast. The dagger glinted in white color, as if luminous pearl was embedded inside. The light from the dagger grew stronger when it slashed Decratic’s face.
Under this dark sky and the heavy black rain, this light must be the brightest, where all of them were able to see their surroundings clearly for the first time, as if the sunlight finally graced them and chased away the darkness.
However, instead of bleeding and injured Decratic, the moment the dagger slashed him, his figure puffed like dark smoke, leaving black fog behind, which immediately washed away by the rain.
And now, the place where he was standing a moment ago was empty and the light that came from Iris gradually dimmed away.
Once Decratic vanished, the agony the warriors suffered disappeared as well. Aliana and Zale breathed greedily to fill their lungs, they were shaken up. Being suffocated to death was one of the cruelest ways to die. It was slow and painful.
Eron and Zephyr immediately shifted into their human form and approached Iris.
"Luna, are you, okay?" Eron asked, despite the pain that still lingered, he ignored it and checked on Iris first. "Are you hurt somewhere?"
However, to their horror, Iris’s body dropped to the ground.
Thankfully, Zephyr had caught her first the moment he saw Iris closed her eyes and her body became unsteady, before she could hit the hard and cold ground, or else, they couldn’t imagine the consequences of the impact of her fall.
"Luna!"
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"You can use magic!" Nala widened her eyes in surprised, her jaw’s dropped when Lou burned one of the buildings and caused chaos for those Winter Moon warriors. "You are a magic user!"
Lou glanced at Nala beside him and warned her. "Yeah, but if you talked recklessly about this to someone else, I am going to pull your tongue out of your mouth." He added in hard voice. "I mean it."
Nala gulped down so hard when she felt the animosity from Lou. He seemed to hate it when someone knew his little secret.
"You don’t need to threaten me, I will not say anything about it," Nala mumbled, she lowered her eyes, because it was very scary to see Lou directly in the eyes right now. freeweɓnøvel.com
More so, Nala was actually quite happy to know his secret, she felt a little bit closer to him, somehow, for holding such important secret from this merchant. After all, her life was depending on this man, she wouldn’t intentionally let down her own benefactor, because it would impact the way how she had to survive too.
Before their eyes, there was chaotic situation, where the warriors tried to put out the blazing fire from the burning building.
"What now?" Nala asked. "How will you get that huge bear without them noticing it?" Whether Lou was a sorcerer or not, there was no way he could get Lil Thing without them realizing it. If anything, Lou would only let them knew their current position and put themselves in danger. "You don’t have enough magic stone with you."
Nala was not sure how the magic stone worked in the hand of magic user, but Lou said it himself that the magic stone was not enough.
Yet, Lou didn’t answer her and melted the steel bars in front of them that was used to drainage rain, created a hole that was enough for one person to go through it.
"Don’t tell me you want to go out?" Nala was panic. "Lou!" she grabbed his arm and pulled him back. "Are you crazy? That’s suicide!" Nala was worried.
However, Lou only gave Nala a mischievous smirk, almost as if he returned to his usual annoying self, which was a little bit reassuring for her.
"I am not going to die for that furball." Lou leaned over and captured her lips briefly before he pushed his body up, so he could go through the hole he created. "Both of you! Don’t just stare at my ass, give me a little push. I am stuck here."
Nala’s blush disappeared almost an instant when she and Sabian had to push Lou’s butt, so he could go out of this water tunnel. Why he always felt the need to ruin a moment by running his mouth and spouting uncool words?
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Celia’s beast was the color of honey brown and because of how young she was, her beast was smaller than the other two beasts that ran side by side with her. She was literally a puppy.
However, this was too much for her, she had never run this long in her beast’s form, thus there was one point, she couldn’t sustain her beast form and shifted back into her human form without her knowing it and knelt down to the ground.
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