Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 227

Chapter 227: THE CRITICAL SITUATION (19)
Even after there were so many people had died for the sacrifice, Jared was still having a hard time to get out of the black beast. His shoulder was soaking red with how much blood that oozed out from his deep wound.

His magic only managed to protect him from the beast from snapping his body into half, but obviously it was not enough to get out from this predicament.

Meanwhile, when those black magic users saw their leader was weaker than the opponent, one by one stepped back, they feared the black beast and in their mind, there was no point for them to fight this losing battle.

Based on that, they started to flee from the scene, yet the knights immediately chased them down and the battle started anew between them, while Jared was still struggling to keep his life intact.

“Dawn!” Jared screamed her name. “You are the one, who wanted this! You are the one, who wanted to kill all the shifters! Have you forgotten about that?!”

Dawn frowned, she didn’t have any idea what he was talking about.

But then, Jared started to talk about her strong desire that she wanted to kill all the shifters, the war between the magic users and the shifters and how the shifters saw her as a traitor.

Because even though she was a shifter herself, she was on the magic user’s side and also, even though she was a shifter, she used to fight with her skill in poison art, instead of shifting into her beast, because she despised the shifter so much.

It explained why Dawn was fighting against Zaya in the first life.

“You hated all the shifters because they let you down!” Jared screamed. “What happened now?! Have you forgotten how those people had hurt you? Have you forgotten how those people let you down?! You were not allowed to see your own child, you were poisoned and was abandoned! You saw your son’s dead body, mauled by the monster! Can you let it go just because now you have another son?!”

Dawn was slightly taken aback with that revelation. She was one of the instigators of the war between the shifters and the black magic users in the first life.

“Don’t listen to him, Dawn,” Darius said hastily, because he could see how what Jared said started to get to her. “Don’t listen! It’s different now!”

However, Dawn didn’t need to listen anymore, because Rowan came and cut off his head.

The leader of the dragon sect died and once life left his body, the protection around him broke, the black magic that shielded him from being snapped into half by the beast, broke as well and Jared lost a big chunk of his shoulder.

Yet, Rowan was in a dangerous position right now because he was too close to Zenith and without Jared, the black beast directed his killing intent toward the king.

Rowan knew his action was very risky, but he did it anyway and despite the feral look on the black wolf, there was this smirk that tugged on the corner of his lips.

“Well, Zaya will be pissed if I hurt her brother, but I have no other choice now, right?” Rowan smirked at the beast, as it started to attack him.

The king dodged the first attack, but on the second attack that came so fast, he used his sword to prevent his arm from being claw. The sword snapped and he was left defenseless.

Now, it wiped off all the smirk from his lips, because his face turned dark, as he faced the beast.

Seeing what happened, five knights immediately came between their king and the beast, protecting Rowan, but they were not a match in a fight against a bloodlust beast, who let his killing instinct ran rampant.

“Shit!” Darius went ahead and grabbed one of the swords on the ground.

“You didn’t know how to fight with sword, Darius!” Dawn followed behind him, she was afraid. She was trying to thing of a way of how to fix the situation.

There was this one thing that she noticed, which dreaded her, because even though Jared had died, they still couldn’t shift into her beast. She felt uncomfortable with this fact.

Could this be only a phase? Where they would eventually get their beast back?

But, there was no time to peruse over that when she rushed after Darius. The gamma looked at her, mortified.

“You don’t even know how to fight, go back!”

No. Dawn didn’t want to go back. She wanted to fight to get Zenith back to his sense. She didn’t want what happened in their first life happened again here, where he killed all of the people.

If anything, she remembered even in his beast form, even when he was out of control, he still managed not to kill her that night. The black beast only stayed out of her door, after he annihilated the whole pack.

Which meant, he still had self preservation for not hurting her, though the hope was very slight and probably it was crazy of her to bet on it, but she was willing to try.

“Are you crazy? Go back!” Darius pushed Dawn aside, he was in panic and he didn’t mean to push her too harsh, he forgot to control his strength because the adrenaline that rushed in his blood, but he ended up pushing Dawn too hard, which caused her to fall on her butt.

Darius stopped running and looked at her in shock, while Dawn stared back at him in disbelief. But then, this gamma had the audacity to question her.

“What are you doing sitting there?”

“Why do you think I am here?!” Dawn snapped back at him, annoyed, but then her eyes widened. “Get down! Darius, get down!”

Darius didn’t even think twice when he knelt down and a black beast lunged over his head. He would have been knocked down if he were standing.

“Damn it!”