Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 224

Chapter 224: THE CRITICAL SITUATION (16)
“We need to get her out of here,” Pyro said.

But, even before the royal beta finished his sentence, Rowan had carried Zaya in his arms to a safe place.

They found a spot, beside the ruin of what it looked like one of the bedrooms in this pack house and laid Zaya on the bed, after Pyro cleaned it up from dirt a bit.

“I will call a healer,” Pyro said, he then stood up and rushed to find Lyra. He remembered that the healer must be nearby, she was with Dawn earlier.

Rowan didn’t say anything and let Pyro left the room. He stared at Zaya and wiped her face from dirt. He checked her body and found the back of her hand was bleeding. There was not much blood, because from the look of it, it was only a scrap.

However, he tore his clothes and tied it around the wound. This was enough for now.

And for the meantime, he was waiting for the healer to come. Rowan looked up and saw the sky was still the color of red from the hole on the ceiling and the wind became even hotter than before. This place would turn into hell in a few more hours.

Sweat trickled down from his forehead, as he tried to keep his composure. He held her hand and saw the dagger on her waist.

Thankfully, it didn’t take long before Pyro finally returned with Lyra. The healer checked on Zaya and said that she was fine.

“But, she is unconscious,” Rowan stated the obvious. “She is not fine.”

“She got a backlash from using her magic, king Rowan. She will recover after some time,” Lyra replied.

It didn’t put the king at ease, but he accepted the explanation. “Take her back to the palace with the portal and informed your king about what happened here.”

“I can’t.”

“Why not?” Rowan frowned.

“I don’t have enough magic stone with me to create a portal.” What happened here was not as they had predicted. Pyro and Zaya came here with different mission.

While Zaya came to convince king Rowan not to take the enemy’s side, which was not even a problem in the first place, since he proved it that he was on their side, Pyro came here to take Zenith back to the palace, but as it turned out, he had to fight the enemy.

“Fuck.” Rowan looked frustrated. “Those magic users from the Sect could use their magic as they pleased.”

“They were using black magic, they used sacrifice as the source of their power.”

“Then do it. You can do the same, right?” Rowan furrowed his brows at the royal beta.

“I will not go down in the same path like that.” Pyro was strongly against it. He had never done it, but from what he knew, the feeling of using black magic was akin to drink your own blood. Who would do that? But, obviously, many people was willing to do that for more power.

“Fine. Go and find a carriage to take her back to the palace.”

Pyro squinted his eyes at the king. “You care so much about her.”

Rowan didn’t say anything, he simply stood up and then took one of the swords from the dead knight. He glanced at Pyro and then his eyes fell on Zaya. “I demanded a great deal from your king for what I have done for him.”

He didn’t say that he would ask, but it would be a ‘demand’. And from the way he looked at Zaya, Pyro knew what he wanted. He was sure that the two brothers would throw a fit, but right now, it went without saying that the Marca El people really helped them a lot.

“Make sure you don’t die, if you wanted to demand anything from the king,” Pyro said before Rowan left. He didn’t know whether the king hear him or not among the roaring sound out there. He then looked at Lyra. “Do you know where can I get a carriage?”

“I don’t know if they still kept a carriage, but I know where is the stable.”

“Good.”

Lyra then helped Pyro to put Zaya on his back, as both of them went out of the room and away from the chaos. The wind became even more unbearably hot. They felt like they were going to be evaporated at some point.

The horrendous sky didn’t even help with the ominous feeling that they felt.

Pyro was panting heavily. He gritted his teeth and fastened his steps, as Lyra led them to the stable and they to their bad luck, there was no carriage, but there were a few horses there.

“You have to take her on horseback,” Lyra said, she took one of the horses and then led him out. She helped Pyro to secure Zaya on the horse, while he hugged her from behind. “I don’t know if it will help or not, but take this.”

Lyra gave him a small bottle with white liquid inside.

“What is this?”

“Be careful with that. That contain a very corrosive liquid. If someone touched it, their skin and bone will melt almost immediately.”

“Why you people have this dangerous thing?”

“That Dawn’s creation, not me.” Lyra raised both of her hands in her defense.

“What if the bottle cracked accidentally? I will die.” Pyro thought the thing that Lyra gave him was not helping at all.

“Don’t worry, the bottle is strong enough. It even managed to contain the corrosive liquid.”

Pyro shook his head. “I don’t know what to be worried about now.”

After that, he went away with Zaya, but the battle in the Moonlight pack kept going, as it only grew vicious, since the black beast started to kill anyone on his path. He absorbed back the black magic that Zaya managed to extract before.

“Do you have plan?” Rowan asked Dawn when he finally saw her. He approached her. “That’s your man, right?”