The Alpha's Regret Return Of The Betrayed Luna (Addison) novel Chapter 467

Chapter 467: Chapter 467 Getting To Safety

Glancing back, he realized that Archmage Elric, who had been shouting in fear moments ago, was actually now focusing intently on casting spells to help the other mages slightly widen an opening in the barrier, allowing the container of the biochemical agent to be dropped in precise locations.

Even the mages clinging to the wolves’ backs were putting all their effort into maintaining the barrier, but unlike Archmage Elric, who had two free hands and his staff while dangling from Levi’s jaws, most of them could only barely contribute, their focus split between holding on the backs of the wolves and sustaining the magical barrier. Elric was carrying the weight of the spellcasting, orchestrating it all with remarkable precision under impossible conditions.

Zion watched with his own eyes as the fragile glass container holding the biochemical agent plummeted hundreds of meters toward the ground. He lost sight of it when the treetops blocked his view, but a moment later, the birds perched among the branches erupted into flight, scattering in panic as if startled all at once.

Above him, the hot-air balloon drifted upward for another few meters until the ropes binding it went taut. The sudden tension pulled the hot-air balloon, and it began to drift slowly in Zion’s direction.

Then the sounds came.

At first, they were faint, easy to dismiss. But soon, the creaking, chittering noises of insects grew louder and louder, surrounding him from every direction. Zion’s breath caught.

He knew then.

The glass container had shattered on the ground.

Then he heard Addison shouting his name from a distance.

"Zion!! Run!"

She yelled it again and again. The urgency in her voice snapped something into place. Zion didn’t hesitate; he shifted instantly into his wolf form and burst forward at full speed.

Ahead of him, Addison and the others were already sprinting. The wolves pulling the rope suddenly felt the strain as the line went taut; it had reached the limit of its extension. The weight of the hot-air balloon bore down on them, and the shifting air currents made it even harder to run faster.

"Everyone, pull harder!!" Addison shouted.

A dozen wolves clamped down on the ropes they are biting in their mouths, tightening their grips with their jaws. Addison had anticipated the strain, the drag of the hot-air balloons, the resistance of the air currents, the crushing tension once the ropes reached their limit.

That was why she hadn’t relied on just a few werewolves. Instead, she had assigned more than a dozen to pull the hot-air balloons together, so many wolves would be sharing the burden all at once.

Even so, when the rope finally went taut, the wolves began to slow. Each step grew heavier than the last, their paws sinking deep into the earth as grooves and footprints were carved into the ground.

"Grrr..."

"Growl..."

Addison heard more labored growls ripple through the group and knew the wolves hauling the hot-air balloon were reaching their limits.

"Will they make it...?" she murmured, worry tightening her chest as she glanced back.

The moment she did, her heart sank. White smoke like mist laced with the biochemical agent had risen high enough that the once-invisible barrier was now clearly outlined, the vapor forming a dense, roiling mass beneath it. Greenish smears and splatters of demonic insect blood suddenly struck the barrier, as if the creatures were hurling themselves against it in a desperate attempt to break free.

Addison’s gaze snapped to the mages riding on the other wolves. They were struggling now, faces strained, hands trembling as they fought to maintain the barrier. Even Archmage Elric let out a low groan of pain.

"Tell the guards on the balloons to drop more weight! It’s too heavy, we need to lighten the load now!" 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"Drop more weight! You’re too heavy!"

"Roger! Dropping more sandbags!" came the synchronized reply from the guards aboard the hot-air balloon. One by one, they cut loose the sandbags secured along the sides of the carrier.

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