Aliana couldn’t imagine what her brother and the other warrior had to go through out there to face countless monsters on their own, while their only escape, which was inside this pack, behind the fortress was being closed.
"If you don’t open the gates, I am not going to let any of your kind alive to see tomorrow!" Aliana was trembling, as rage ran through her veins. "Mark my words!"
If her brother died, she was going to kill these useless knights, including the Serafim! She didn’t care about anything else, Jace was the only family left for her and she was not going to lose him in this way!
She was going to kill all of them or died trying to do it!
"Watch your word!" One of the knights roared at her, but Aliana growled back, challenged him to stop her.
"Enough!" Cedric snapped, he straightened his back and wiped the blood from his nose and mouth because of Aliana’s punch.
The head of the knight approached Aliana, his brows furrowed, but when he talked, he was calm enough, given the fact the woman before him just punched him squared on the face in front of the other knights there.
"If we opened the gates, the monsters will flood in and all of us will be in danger." Cedric stood within an arm reach from Aliana, as if he was not afraid to be punched again by her. "Do you want me to do that? Is that what you want?"
"And do you expect me to watch my brother and all of my pack member died out there?!" Aliana raised her voice even more, she was furious. The more they wasted their time in this ridiculous argument, the more danger her brother would be faced out there.
"So, you will disregard all the people inside of the fortress’s lives? The pack member of this pack too? The gamma’s life too?" Cedric still kept his composure and he knew his words reached Aliana, as she clenched her jaw and glared at him sharply, but she didn’t say anything.
Aliana then went to the edge of the fortress, where she witnessed the monsters had pitted the remaining warriors that was still outside of the gates. Her brother was one of them.
Unfortunately, this fortress was too high for the beast to climb it, thus the only way for them to enter was to open the gates again, but it would risk thousand of lives within the pack if the monsters managed to burst inside.
Aliana gritted her teeth, she looked around and found Joel and Eron had the same argumentation like she had earlier. Dyne came to confront Cedric as well.
They were in a very difficult situation, while faraway from them, Aliana could see the storm with the luna and Decratic was the center of it. The wind was very strong and if it hit them, no one could tell whether this fortress would be able to stand or not.
From where she was standing, Aliana had a better sight of everything and watched how the lycan entered the whirlwind and disappeared in the dust.
Whatever happened there, Aliana wished nothing, but for the luna and the alpha to be alive. They would lose everything if they lost them.
Meanwhile, Lou was having a hard time to hold his ground because the wind was getting stronger and the power of magic stone depleted pretty fast.
Zale was holding onto him, the young boy had shifted into his human form.
The only advantage in this situation was the fact this wind prevented the monster from going after them, so they didn’t need to be worried about that fact.
However, what happened with Iris and Decratic was still uncertain.
"Look! That’s the lycan!" Zale pointed his finger at the lycan. "The lycan is the alpha! Have you known about that before this?!"
Lou didn’t answer him, but Zale assumed this merchant knew about it beforehand and said nothing anymore, as the two of them watched how the lycan jumped into the strong whirlwind.
It was hard to see what was going on inside, because aside from the dust and the rocks that coiled in the air, the black wisp blocked their sight as well.
This black wisp was akin to tendrils, a slender threadlike that stretched out and twined around them.
The first thing that the lycan felt when he entered this was... misery. He felt a lot of pain. Not physically, but he felt this strong feeling of sadness and rage at the same time. This feeling was very strong, it brought the lycan down and forced him to shift back into his human form.
Lu tried to open his eyes to look for Iris and his red eyes caught the sight of her. She was sitting on the ground, staring at Decratic, who was standing in front of her, but her dark eyes filled with emptiness. The same gaze that he had seen ever since she absorbed the black magic and succumbed into her won agony.
Lu tried to call for her, but his voice was swallowed by the sound of the wind around them.
Decratic, who finally noticed his presence there tilted his head and smirked at Lu. His smile was the kind of smile that saying; he won. He won this game. He had Iris, Na in his hand.
Right now, Iris had succumbed into her deepest, darkest memories and she would be there forever. She would stay there indefinitely, trapped in her pain with no chance for her to recover. Her heart had been tainted, she lost her divine power and the five swords that contained the purest of her power had gone, they had been broken too.
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