Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 231

Chapter 231: THE CRITICAL SITUATION (23)
They said something to Zander, but at the same time, they didn’t say anything.

Zander heard this noise in the background, as if they were trying to communicate with him somehow, but their mouth didn’t move. They kept staring at him.

Most of the time, he would put back his golden mask and they would turn around and leave him alone, as if they didn’t see him.

All this time, he wouldn’t stand to not wear his mask for a few minutes, unless he was unconscious and sleeping, but right now, he pushed through. His mask fell on his feet beside him and he stared back at them.

“What do you want?” Zander asked again. His voice was raspy. He breathed raggedly, but when he closed his eyes and opened them again, there was a new resolution in his eyes. “Whatever you are going to do, do it now.”

He was not sure how it could help Zade, but his instinct told him that everything was related to one another.

He calmed himself down. There was nothing to lose now. His siblings were out there and he didn’t know what happened to them, but seeing the situation with the shifters, thing wouldn’t look good on them no matter how he tried to stay positive.

Therefore, if these ghosts were trying to do something with him, there was nothing that he couldn’t endure.

It was time to accept that life has no more to give.

“Do it,” Zander said firmly.

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Zaya and Pyro marched toward the Moonlight pack and they could already see how devastated this place was. The pack was ruined and when they crossed the harbor, the sea was boiling.

“This is…” Pyro shuddered. You could see the white fog above the sea and the surface of the water that boiled. “I have never seen anything like this.”

Zaya didn’t answer him immediately, but then she pressed her lips and took a deep breath. “I did.”

She had seen this once in her previous lifetime. Something like this happened and now she knew how to absorb Zenith’s black magic power.

Dawn was right, it was her, who had done it. She was the one, who had absorbed all the magic power that came from Zenith, but that was not the end of it.

Their memories returned by it was not whole, it came piece by piece, which was very annoying and frustrating when you were in hurry to get more information of how to end this situation.

“You did?” Pyro was surprised, but Zaya didn’t explain, yet he could guess where Zaya had seen something like this.

It must have something to do with her first life.

“Say, why do you think I couldn’t see my past life like you and Dawn did?”

Zaya shook her head. “I don’t know. I am not sure. I think not all people got the chance to see their first lifetime. This is anomaly.”

Pyro and Zay then spent the rest of their trip back to Moonlight pack in silence, but as they got closer to the battlefield, their body became so tense.

They could see the knights and the black beast fought and somehow, Zaya was relief to see that king Rowan was still standing, fighting back with all of his might with his knights.

But then, they spotted Dawn and Darius.

Zaya rushed toward them and immediately got off the horse to approach the two of them.

“I remember. I remember how to absorb the black magic.” That was the first thing that Zaya told Dawn, once she was kneeling beside her. “But, I think you must have figured out how to stop this, right?”

Dawn shook her head, but her eyes couldn’t lie. Tears brimmed in her eyes and Zaya hugged her.

“You need to be brave, Dawn,” Zaya said, as she hugged her tightly, but Dawn kept shaking her head. “I know this is not what you are thinking. I know that this must be very difficult, but you need to know that this is the only way.”

Zaya held back her own tears. She didn’t even want to think about that. She must be the worse sister ever, because she suggested her own sister in law to kill her own brother.

But, that was what they must to do.

She felt so bad to feel relief because she was not the one, who had to do that. “You need to do it, Dawn. Be brave please. We will be fine.”

“No.” Dawn’s voice sounded like a whimper, a plea for Zaya to not bring this up and to think of another solution. “No, please… I couldn’t do that… I can’t…”

Zaya hugged her a little bit tighter and then kissed her cheeks. “My brother will not want to hurt you, Dawn. He will suggest the same thing.”

Dawn gritted her teeth. “Let us all die. I don’t want to do it.”

Zaya’s heart sank. She knew this request was too much and for her to force Dawn to do it was cruel.

“What happened? What is going on?” Darius came to them, he was panting, his face pale and droplet of sweats fell on his face.

All of the shifters felt the same pain as well.

“Zenith tried to kill all the wolf spirit.”

“What? But, I thought that’s Jared’s idea? Why would he want to kill his own kind?”

“It’s no longer Zenith, the vicious black magic inside of him is trying to get control over him. He is not himself right now.”

Zaya kissed Dawn’s forehead and when Dawn thought she was going to persuade her to change her decision, she simply said something that left her more guilty.

“I will do the best I could do, I will leave the rest to you, Dawn,” Zaya said and then she went toward the black beast.

King Rowan spotted her and growled angrily at her.

“What are you doing here?! Go back!”

“You should be the one, who retreated!”