Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 222

Chapter 222: THE CRITICAL SITUATION (14)
The only man with golden mask that they had ever seen, without a doubt, was the king. But, when the little girl told them that she saw many men with golden mask, it confused them.

However, they couldn’t say what the little girl said was wrong, because the other two children, who were at the same age as her and could tell them what made them crying, saying the same thing.

“Golden mask?” Lucia repeated the same thing.

In the end, Lucia decided that she would talk with the little girl and see if she could get more information from her, for the meantime, Zander and Rye discussed their next move.

Everything went well according to their plan in the West, but the only aspect that they didn’t see coming was what happened in the Moonlight pack and the newest revelation from Dawn’s memories that Zenith was the target.

“We need to handle the problem in the Moonlight pack first before we can continue with our plan in the West,” Rye concluded, after they went through every option that they had to win this battle.

This was a critical situation.

“Oh, I hate this situation.” Rye grumbled. He hated the unexpected.

“Do you think I love it?” Zander closed his eyes. “What do you feel? Your wolf spirit, I meant.”

“I feel like someone is squeezing my heart tightly. Uncomfortable, painful.” Rye then looked at Zander. “The golden mask…” he started. “Do you think it has something to do with what happened ten years ago? With… her?”

Both of them knew, who ‘her’ that Rye referred to. It was Zander’s destined mate.

However, Zander had never talked about what happened ten years ago and what happened that night when he lost his wolf spirit, which caused him unable to shift. It would be a great scandal if people learned about it, since it would show how weak the king was without his beast.

That was the time when he started to wear his golden mask to hide his face.

“No, I don’t think so.” Zander’s answer came so fast, as if he didn’t even reconsider it at all. He simply thought that was not the case at all, or maybe he didn’t want to even think about that.

Rye opened his mouth, he wanted to say something, but the look on Zander’s eyes made him stopped himself and then sighed deeply.

How could those children could see the golden mask men, but they couldn’t?

Not long after that, Lucia came with another information about what the children said about the golden mask men. They described the golden mask was the same like what Zander had.

“Lend me your golden mask, I will let them see whether the intricate of the mask is the same like what they are seeing.”

Zander looked at Lucia’s hand that stretched out, waiting for him to give her the golden mask.

“What is it, Zan?” Lucia narrowed her eyes, because she felt there was something wrong.

Zander pressed his lips, hie jaw hardened. Both Lucia and Rye knew there was more about the mask, something more that he hid deeply and didn’t want anyone to learn about this, but what? All of them were confused about what actually was going on with the king.

“Zan?” Lucia walked toward him, but Zander’s gaze stopped her.

His eyes were cold, his blue eyes looked a few shades darker. They had never seen Zander like this, especially when they had not yet met with him very often due to their assignment in the West.

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Dawn and Lyra managed to finish whatever they were doing and asked all the knights to pour their sword with the liquid that they concocted.

“What is it?” the knight scrunched their nose because the smell was so awful.

“Think of this as holy water,” Dawn said simply. She was fine with the smell. “So, your sword will be able to cut down the devil.”

“Ugh. I don’t know that holy water is so disgusting.” One of the knights stared at the green liquid. “What is the point of this?”

Dawn then explained that the liquid would enhance the power of their sword, which would allow them to ward off the magic from magic users.

“How do you know that it will work?”

“Let’s find out,” Pyro said, as he attacked one of the knights. The magic scattered, but the sword cracked.

“This is not really working,” the knight said unhappily because his sword cracked.

“Well, I think it works.” Pyro tilted his head. “Without it, I will be able to cut your body into half.”

“What?!”

They thought Pyro wouldn’t really attach the knight seriously, because they only tried the strange liquid that Dawn poured on their sword. They were not happy with the smell though.

“What did you expect? Do you think those magic users will attack you playfully? Of course, they will attack you with the intention to kill you.”

That was how Pyro justified his action and thankfully, Dawn cut them off before thing would escalate. They had their enemy to be taken down, it was not the right time to attack each other.

But, when they finally reached the place, where Dawn left Zaya, she couldn’t see her, instead it was the black wisp and flames that clustered in the wind.

The knights that came with king Rowan fought off the magic users, the fight had broken loose and Jared seemed to try to get to Zaya, while Zenith was left in his beast form.

Dawn didn’t know what happened to him and it seemed, the eleven black magic users that surrounded him looked very tensed.

When all the shifters couldn’t shift into their beast, Zenith was the only beast there. His black beast looked magnificent and… feral.

But, Dawn could tell something was not right with him when their eyes met and a second later, the beast launched at the closer magic user and ripped his head off, before he went to the next one.