The Love of a Lycan

Chapter 867 - THEIR POWER (3)

Why was the king always got involved with a woman, whose tongue was even more sharper than a knife? In the past, it was Serefina and now this guardian angel!

And then a smirk appeared on his wrinkly face when he spoke. "Why do you want to see me so badly my king? This barrier actually is nothing. Don\'t take it personal." He waved his hands, as if what he was saying was just a joke.

However, Jedrek didn\'t want to beat around the bush and talk nonsense with this old wizard, thus he got to the point immediately. "Where are my general and the mind reader?" he asked in a low and threatening tone.

Swan feigned a surprise, he widened his eyes and gasped. "How would I know, my king? Aren\'t they your people? Did you lost them?"

Jedrek watched his expression in silence and didn\'t answer that stupid question, instead, he posted his own question. "You know the war is coming, which side are you?" he asked without missing a beat and witnessed the viciousness flashed in his opponent\'s eyes.

"Of course your side my king," he said with such ease and that left the people who heard him unable to believe his sugar-coated words.

Swan was playing with Jedrek and this kind of mocking was not acceptable in the eyes of the king, he squinted his eyes. "Swan, you know I don\'t want to play this stupid game of yours anymore," Jedrek said. "Give me back my people and I will decide which side you are."

"My king, your people are not with me," Swan said calmly and then he turned around to ask the four spell casters behind him. "Have anyone of you seen the general and the mind reader?"

The four of them shook their heads in denial simultaneously.

"See? No one saw your people, your majesty," Swan said. He touched his neck with a painful expression. "I am already old and can\'t stand much longer. Why don\'t you come to the castle, I believe there are one or two towers left." He looked at Lilac and his expression turned serious. "I heard the rumor about you, my queen. You can control nature, but only now I got to witness that you held such great power in you… Selene must favor your resurrection this time to gift you such powerful magic."

"If you dare to turn around I will assume you are my enemy," Jedrek said, ignoring what Swan was blabbering about the guardian angel. "I will wait here until tomorrow and if you don\'t give me what I want, you can imagine what will happen."

"Jedrek, you don\'t need to threaten me," Swan said, this time he changed the way he talked to Jedrek again. "If you ask for your people, I want to ask for the last Gregory, where is he?"

Swan was talking about Maximus and everyone knew that the traitor had joined the dead in Tartarus.

"He broke a rule and I killed him," Jedrek said emotionlessly and the eyes of the old wizard hardened.

"You broke the promise as well by killing him," Swan spoke through gritted teeth. His eyes were bloodshot as his temper flared up.

He was quite fickle as a person, yet the spell casters behind him did nothing but stared anywhere and everywhere except at Jedrek and his people.

While Jedrek and Swan exchanged deadly glares trying to dominate one another, Lilac sensed something was wrong with those people. They looked uncomfortable with where they were standing in this dispute.

"Do you expect me to keep him by my side after what he had done?" Jedrek sneered. "Go ahead, do what you want to do, but you know that I hold grudges dearly for all my enemies and they will meet their end soon. Do you think this barrier can hold me forever?"

"You want to do the same thing by ruining my city?" Swan glared at Jedrek now.

"That is my city Swan, remember that!" Jedrek spoke harshly and turned around with Lilac beside him, leaving the fuming wizard behind him.

Jedrek\'s people sneered at the old wizard and turned around as well. They knew that their king would do exactly what he said.

"You better have a good reason to turn your back against us, Swan, except revenging Maximus. He is dead and what you will do, will put your life to end as well. Decide carefully." Sebastian said before he followed the other lycanthropes.

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Raine was trying to run toward the direction of the pile of empty barrels where she met Dorian before, but no matter how fast she ran, it seemed she couldn\'t reach it.

That place was like fatamorgana for her, it got farther and farther.

She stopped and panted lightly. Above her, the sky was still as dark as before with thundering sounds that continued to ring like a bell.

This wouldn\'t do. There was something wrong with this place and she didn\'t have any clue what she had to do with her current situation.

What did the dwarf meant by using her power?

How could she use her power in this kind of magic that didn\'t even include the change of time? Or was it?

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Hope felt her breath almost leaving her lungs empty and she started to choke on the water, it felt like it was forever since she fell into this icy water and her skin shriveled in no time because of the coldness.

However, before her consciousness could fade away completely sending her mind astray, she heard that voice again, this time it was clearer than before.

The voice came from the depths of the river, calling out for her.

What was that?

Hope forced herself to hang onto her remaining consciousness and tried to turn her body around, facing the darkness of the deep river.

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