Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 232

Chapter 232: THE CRITICAL SITUATION (24)
“You should be the one, who retreated!” Zaya yelled back at him. “Now took all the knights with you and retreat! Go to Pyro, he will create a shield!”

“What are you going to do?!” King Rowan asked, he had to raise his voice, because of the deafening roar and harsh wind that became hotter by second.

Zaya had asked Pyro whether he had enough magic stone to create shield and he had enough to shield them for a day if there was no disturbance from the outside.

It was enough time for Zaya, but she was not sure it would be enough for what would come next.

“I will absorb the black magic.” Zaya checked on king Rowan briefly. He didn’t seem to sustain a concerning wound, only a few cuts here and there, as far as she could see.

Most of the knights had taken off their armor, because the steel was too hot for their body. It made them felt like they were on the frying pan.

“You have done that before and failed, you are going to do it again?!”

Zaya frowned. “That’s hurt my ego,” she said unhappily. “I know what to do now. Now, go back with your knights! I will need you to fight something else next!”

“What’s next?! I don’t want more monsters or anything alike!”

“Well, unfortunately, you couldn’t choose.” Zaya shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly. “Go back now and saved your knights for what will come! Now!”

“Fuck!” King Rowan growled, he pulled Zaya and kissed her lips. “You better be safe, because I am not yet done with you!”

Zaya blinked her eyes, she was too shock to respond, only when he had barked order for the knights to retreat that she glowered at the king.

“I am not done with you too!” Zaya then cursed. “Fuck.”

However, the king had walked away and he didn’t hear what she said, thus she continued with her plan, she needed to calm herself down first for a moment before she concentrated with the matter at hand.

Zaya started it again, the black beast that was her brother was in front of her, growling viciously, looking at her with killing intent in his eyes.

“Forgive me, Zenith. Forgive me… I don’t want to do this. I don’t want to hurt you. Forgive me…” Zaya closed her eyes and started the same thing again, she tried to absorb the black magic from the black beast and once again, she became the main target of Zenith.

This must be the second time that Zenith tried to kill her because she tried to take away his power and soon enough, there was this cocoon of black wisp that surrounded Zaya, but even when her body engulfed in this darkness, one could still see how her body was shining.

There was this tiny light from inside. The darkness didn’t consume her whole now like the first time and Zaya could hold her power better.

The beast roared, he let out a deafening growl, which sent all of the shifters down, they were in so much pain, they couldn’t even speak anymore.

Dawn closed her eyes, she couldn’t feel anything, but pain. She couldn’t even feel how hot the ground was and how king Rowan tried to make her to stay awake.

No. She didn’t want to wake up throughout the whole pain. She didn’t want to wake up throughout this. She wanted to sleep and skip everything. She didn’t want to make a choice whether she had to kill Zenith or not.

“What is that?”

Addie was the first one, who realized it and all of them followed his line of sight, at the same time, the ground started shaking, as a crater appeared.

“What is that?!”

All of them started asking question, but no one could find the answer. Pyro stood up and watched how the ground split into half and the heat escalated, at this point, they were all going to die because of the heat.

From under the ground, you could hear the ominous sound and Pyro knew what was that.

“This… no way… he breathed heavily, because he himself couldn’t believe with what he was seeing. He had read about this, something similar had happened during the last war of the previous king.

It was written in the history of the kingdom.

“What is it?! What is happening?!” Rowan shouted, he put let Addie to look after Dawn, as he approached the royal beta. “If you don’t start talking, I will throw you down there!”

Pyro shook his head to gather his thought. “That’s… the gates of hell.” He then told him about what he had read in the history.

“Your continent is crazy…” King Rowan gritted his teeth. He would prefer the civil in his continent than this kind of battle.

“I know…” There was no other word to respond to that.

Both of them went to the crater, as close as they could go because it was too hot, they felt like their skin blistered and they would be fried for good in no time.

But, what they saw down there was not really excited them.

“Is this what she meant?” King Rowan clicked his tongue and then watched Zaya, who was still fighting the black beast, as she put the shield around her, so the beast couldn’t get to her.

From the look of it, she was fine, she could handle her own battle with her brother and now, this was the battle for them.

“What now?” King Rowan asked.

“We need to retreat. I can provide the shield from these creatures, but I don’t think the shield will stay for long. More so, we didn’t know how long it would end…” Pyro grimaced. “If there was even an end for this at all.”

Which meant, it left them with no other choice, but to fight back.

“What happened? What is down there?” Addie asked with confusion.

“Dead people. A lot of them,” Rowan replied.