Sold as the Alpha King's Breeder novel Chapter 191

Chapter 191 The Moonlight Lily

“Today

is the sixth,” Cerina said. “The sixth of Wheat Month by the ancient calendar.”

My breath stuck in my throat, and I braced myself as tears rushed up my eyes.

“We have two days.”

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Hanging against the cliff, I kept telling myself not to look down, to focus on going up. We were not far from the top. I could do this.

“I don’t understand.” Soren’s voice echoed from below me as he followed me up the cliff, finding holes for his hands and feet. “Why does the Moonshine Lotus have to make it impossible for people to get to it?”

“Moonlight Lily.” Georgia corrected him. “I know you lost to Behar, but did you also lose your mind?”

“Hey, Georgia, I didn’t lose to—”Soren pulled himself up, and when he finally stepped on a rock and could take a breather, he continued, “—Behar, okay? I wounded him severely. See, at least I am able to come on this trip. I bet Behar still can’t get out of bed.”

Georgia smirked, “You’re able to move around because of Rosalie’s blood.”

As soon as she got to the top of the mountain, she offered me her hand. I took her help and finished my last few steps.

“Nice job, Rosalie,” she said, embracing me.

“Thank you,” I told her, but I was so tired that I struggled to catch my breath and really wanted a drink of water.

I couldn’t imagine how the rest of the Drogomor people still had the energy to carry on a casual conversation during this kind of endeavor.

I heard Georgia continue to shout down to Soren. “You were pretty messed up to be honest. Speaking of, why did you come if all you want to do is to complain?”

“Because that jack*ss is also my brother!” Soren gritted his teeth, and with one final pull, he was up on the flat ground too.

In the past day and a half, we had gone through the putrid and disgusting swamp, the forest that was covered by sharp thorns that were almost impossible to get through, and the sheer cliff. Based on the map, we were getting close. Hopefully, this was the last crazy

obstacle.

After finding out about the Moonlight Lily’s next blooming time, I left the palace with a small group to pick the flower. Talon, Georgia, Soren, Jace, and another twenty elites from both Drogomor and Winter Forest pack joined me.

I turned down General Vandough’s proposal of bringing a larger team, because while the trip would be treacherous, more manpower wouldn’t be the solution to it.

In addition, while King Kal’s side was recouping from the loss from the previous battle, it was still likely that they could attack, and we needed to have enough soldiers on the frontline.

Most importantly, Ethan’s current status was still a secret to the enemies. We couldn’t let them know what had happened. Therefore, we needed to avoid drawing any unnecessary attention to our operation.

Thankfully, the rest of the journey was relatively easy. Finally we reached an open field at the top of the mountain.

Most of the landscape was barren, save for large fields of moonlight stone, glowing white in the bright beams of the orb they were named for.

A few scraggly bushes grew amidst them, their brown trunks twisted, their green branches like crooked fingers stretching out into the open space around them, but there wasn’t much color, and nothing stood out as remarkable or beautiful.

Except for one dark green steam in the middle of the field.

It didn’t look particularly special at the moment, but I recognized the plant immediately. It was the Moonlight Lily.

It was well past dark. A glance at the sky told me we had about half an hour before midnight of the eighth day of the Wheat Month, when the flower would bloom.

We settled in for a quick rest. We needed it because as soon as we got the flower, we’d need to rush back to the palace. The good thing was that it should be much easier on the way back now that we had cleared the hazards.

“Look!” All of sudden, Georgia pointed to the moon.

Everyone looked up, and the sky above us began to darken as the moon took on a tinge of red on one side.

It was a lunar eclipse!

Slowly, the tinge of red increased in size, and the moon seemed to turn to blood as the shadow of the earth came between the sun and the moon.

It was clear why it was called the blood moon as the giant orb hung there the same shade of crimson as the liquid I used to save so many.

I watched as the bright silver glow of the moon slowly replaced by the splendid scarlet. When the color change was completed on the entire moon, it was midnight.

I jarred my head to look toward the Moonlight Lily. The flower was blooming under the blood moon!

As quickly as possible, I grabbed the knife from my pocket and slashed my arm. As my blood dripped into the center of the petals, I cut cleanly through the stem of the flower in its mesmerizing blue glow.

Immediately, the flower took on a purple hue, like the red from my blood had mingled with the blue of the flower, and it was clear to me that this was exactly what I’d needed to do.