Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 221

Chapter 221: THE CRITICAL SITUATION (13)
“Do you think it is alright to let Zaya absorb the dark magic? Do you think it will work?” Pyro asked, he didn’t really understand what Lyra and Dawn were doing, he was there to guard this place from the monster, but he felt agitated because he couldn’t do anything, but standing there, watching them doing something he didn’t have any knowledge of.

He could be out there and help, he could advise Zaya of what to do and how to absorb black magic, even though he was not sure how it worked, since nobody had ever been able to do so, aside from the previous queen.

However, Pyro knew how dangerous it was and Dawn said it herself that she saw Zaya was dying and that was the last thing the royal beta wanted to happen.

“I don’t know, Pyro, but that’s something Zaya has to do.” Dawn kept her focus on the material in front of her. “Can you call for all the knights and the shifters to gather here?”

“What do you want with them?”

“Just call them here, Pyro.” Dawn was frustrated, but Pyro felt the same, because he used to know everything, while Dawn didn’t have time to explain thing to him.

Pyro followed Dawn’s instruction begrudgingly and then went to get those people, who seemingly had butchered most of the monsters.

These people from Marca El were scary, as they could match the stamina of the shifters and from the look of it, they had a fun time, treating this as a battle hunter, since the one that they had previously didn’t work really well, because the capital city was under attack.

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“They are here, my king.” Burke went to approach Zander, who was still trying to calm Zade down, the baby was still crying.

Though they still could move around just fine, it didn’t mean they were in good condition, the shifters lost their ability to shift and they look in pain.

For the warriors, who used to feel pain from various occasion, this simply made them uncomfortable, after the initial shock that they couldn’t shift had worn off.

However, for Zade the pain was too much. He had been making a fuss and no amount of consolation that could stop him from crying.

Now, he clawed his thigh, the spot where the mark was.

“Tell them to come in,” Zander said.

And with that, two people the king had not seen for a long time stood in front of him. They nodded at him politely, as if they were simply showing courtesy.

“It has been a long time, Rye, Lucia.” Zander took off his golden mask.

Lucia’s eyes lit up when she saw Zade, she immediately came to the baby. “Is he Zade? Zen’s son? Why is he crying?” Lucia then gave an accusation look at Zander, so bold to make that move on the king, if only you were not close. “What did you do to him?”

“I am not so deranged to make a baby cry.”

“Maybe because of your stupid golden mask that scared him.”

Yara gasped because what Lucia said was too brazen, she was afraid for her, but Lucia simply smiled at her winked.

Lucia was wearing man’s clothes, her long hair was tied into a messy bun above her head.

“On our way here, we realized that we can’t shift into our beast,” Rye said.

“Yeah, and what the hell with the sky? It’s a chaos when we crossed the Moonlight pack.” Lucia added, she nudged Zade’s little feet. She wanted to carry him, but she was reeked of blood and dirt.

“Yes, thing doesn’t look good in Moonlight pack.” Zander kept patting Zade’s back, it bothered him that the little one was in so much pain. He then told Lucia and Rye about it.

The two of them had been spies in the West Kingdom, they had witnessed countless children had to meet their demised for the sacrifice that the black magic users did.

Therefore, they were also familiar with the mark and confirmed that was the one. The two of them looked pissed off.

The only reason why they couldn’t save those children was because it would expose themselves. It was not easy to get into the West Kingdom, therefore, they needed to turn blind eyes and deaf ears when they witnessed each sacrifice that they did, in order to get more information and help Zander to take down the West.

That was the only consolation for them.

And now, the time was near, that was why they were here with the children that they managed to be rescued.

“Some of the children that came with us have the same mark too on their bodies.” Rye contemplated about it. “No wonder, some of them kept crying.”

Zander handed Zade over to Yara and then followed them out of the room, where they saw three carriages that filled with children, some of them the children that were kidnapped from Moonlight pack.

Lucia took a five years old girl, who kept crying and asked her, why she was crying. It was hard to ask Zade, because he was too little to elaborate what he felt.

“My shoulder is hurt…” The little girl said between her sobs, she touched her left shoulder. “And…”

“And?” They waited for the girl to explain what else that she felt.

“There are men…”

“Men?” Zander knelt down in front of the little girl, but she hid behind Lucia’s legs. “What men, little one?” He was not wearing his golden mask now, thus he was smiling softly at the little girl.

“So many men wearing black cloak…”

“What men?” Zander touched her hand, to reassure her that he wouldn’t hurt her.

“Men…” She murmured, her eyes looked around her filled with fear and tears. “Men with golden mask…” she said and then cried again, she hugged Lucia’s leg and refused to answer more question. Her little body was shaking. She was really scared.

“Men with golden mask?”