"Will!" Hanna called for Will, she tried to get his focus on her. She crouched down in front of him to block his sight, so he could stop staring fearfully at Osana. "Will! It’s okay! It’s okay!"
Yes, that was Osana. The forgotten princess that was not important enough for anyone to remember her.
Will thought he was already over what happened in the past, but the sight of her simply brought back the memory. He felt like he was recalling what happened a year ago. Every detail of it flashed before his eyes.
"Will! Please!" Hanna was anxious. They were in the middle of a battle, if Will was having a mental breakdown now, they could die from the attack of the monsters. Thankfully, some of the warriors came to their aid and protect them, but it wouldn’t be enough. "Focus on me! Focus on me!"
Will shook his head, as if he was trying his best to compose himself. He focused his sense on Hanna’s touch and her voice.
"I am here! I am here! You are not alone!" Hanna had to raise her voice because the loud commotion and menacing roars around them were very deafening, not to mention the rain that kept pouring down. "It’s okay, Will. It’s okay."
Hanna pressed his head against her chest and patted his back. Her eyes looked around her sharply, in alert just in case the monsters managed to go through the warriors and attacked them in their vulnerable moment.
But at the same time, Hanna could see the lycan was fighting Osana. Specifically.
There was a valid reason why Lu attacked her. Because he knew something that they didn’t. No. Rei knew about this too, but for some reason, he didn’t act on this knowledge.
He omitted this fact when he talked about the gates of hell. It shouldn’t be a surprise, since he was full of lies and shits.
Lu would be standing on the first line when everything had settled and the war had ended, to kill Rei with his own barehand. The lycan was not sure what kind of game that Rei was playing and even though he appeared defending Iris, he was not as aggressive as he showed to the people when he fought Decratic.
His determination to finish off Decratic was questionable.
A critical information that Rei failed to inform them when he explained about the gates of hell was the fact it needed a sacrifice, just like any other black magic. This was one of the reasons why black magic was prohibited, because it literally costed other people’s lives.
The gates of hell was like a portal that connected to a realm full of monsters.
The first time the gates of hell was opened was during Na’s lifetime. She was the one, who shielded it and separated the two realms. Lu was not sure how it really worked, but Na told him in detail about it.
’The black rain will taint the ground and opened the gates of hell, the dark sky is part of a series of events, where the extinct creature from the past will be revived again.’
That was what Rei said, but in truth, there was this last step.
There would be four people that you could call as the pillars of the gates. You would need these four people to sustain the gates of hell.
But, it was not random people, but the one that had been nurtured by dark magic. Exposed to it, which required a lot of time. Simply said, to open the gates of hell, was a very long term plan. We didn’t talk about a year or two, but decades of plan.
Na taught Lu how to differentiate people, who had been reeked by dark magic and met all the requirements to be the pillar.
And Lu saw one.
It was the forgotten princess Osana. She was still alive, but because of the curse that Haco put on her, she had to trade her life for it. She was nothing, but one of Decratic’s pawns. She survived the turmoil in the palace when Alan killed all of his siblings, so no one could contest his claim.
However, in return, Osana had to give up her life to be Decratic’s. She was one of the pillars and Lu recognized her among the monsters.
She was not a shifter, but you couldn’t call her a magic user. It was also still uncertain whether she was actually alive or not.
Because no matter how brutal the cursed creature was attacking her, she would heal very quickly and her body part would grow again, when it was being torn.
Lu was very disgusted by this. The aftermath of the black magic repulsed him more and more. What kind of creature Osana had become at this point?
The lycan stopped attacking the woman for a while, as he used his black wisp to ward off the attack from the monsters around him that interfered with his fight with Osana. The lycan looked like he was deep in thought, thinking of a way to get rid this disgusting woman.
And when his eyes fell on Lou, who was fighting the monsters along with the other warriors, he was thinking to try something.
Therefore, the lycan used its black wisp to get the merchant.
"Hm?" Lou frowned when he saw the black wisp that wrapped around his waist. He was familiar with this, but before he could comprehend what happened, his body had hurled in the air and he landed on his butt next to the lycan. "What the heck!?" he groaned, he felt like he broke his tailbone. "Can’t you be more gentle with me?! What do you want?!"
Lou had seen Osana, but because he had nothing to do with this woman and the lycan had handled her just fine, he didn’t think much of it, but now this lycan actually got him here. There must be something that he wanted.
"What? Do you want me to fight her?" Lou didn’t understand what this lycan wanted. "If you couldn’t even fight her, how can I stand a chance?" He was frustrated, because he didn’t understand what this lycan wanted. "Can’t you shift into your human form? This is really frustrating!"
However, Lou startled when the lycan cut a Nefilim into half in one swift move of his black wisp. He corrected his tone and became more polite.
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