"What is bothering you, Abby?" Liam hugged her from behind and she leaned her back against his chest, feeling the comfort of his presence. If there was something good of having this title as the Serafim, it must be him.
Because of this damned title, she could meet with him and they could be together.
"She is... more powerful than me, Liam. I can feel it."
Liam immediately knew, who ’she’ Abby was referring to. "Nonsense. You are the Serafim, Abby. No people more powerful than you, not even the magic user and now the signs of the Decratic has slowly appeared, you are the Serafim, who is destined to end it."
Abby shook her head. Liam couldn’t understand what she meant, because he adamant to put her in pedestal when in truth, she was nothing, but the weakest Serafim alive, just like what those people said about her.
"No, Liam. It’s different. She is different."
"Because of the similarity between you two?"
That bothered Abby too, but there was more and when she told Liam about all of her doubt, he reacted as she had expected.
"You are the Serafim, no one else. You don’t need to think of such impossible thing to happen. There will be no two Serafims in this realm." Liam turned Abby’s body around and cupped her face. "She will be an impostor if she claimed herself as one and she will be punished for that."
Abby didn’t want to say anything anymore, she simply nodded and ended this topic, since it wouldn’t go anywhere and Liam couldn’t offer her solution.
"When the Holy Knights will arrive?" Abby asked. She had sent word to the ships to change direction. They would dock in the Crystal Moon pack, instead of the Winter Moon pack.
"They will arrive in a week and it will take another week to march here."
Abby nodded with the information. She wished, she would know how the Decratic looked like and ended things here smoothly.
However, the truth was not as easy as she planned it.
Because miles away, in the north of the continent, the king arrived in the Celestial Moon pack with his entourage.
Cezi and alpha Derick greeted the king and let him to occupy the west tower, like he had mentioned in his letter. Alan didn’t want to stay in the pack house, instead, he wanted to occupy the west tower, which was the furthest tower from the pack house and monster attack frequently happened there.
"I am sure your warriors will protect me from any monster attack," Decratic replied languidly. It started to get cold here and the gloomy clouds that loomed above their head added to the chill in the air.
"It is not safe there, my king," alpha Derick tried to persuade him, but Decratic simply walked away from him, ignored all the warning, which left alpha Derick bewildered. This was not the man that he knew.
Everyone in this continent knew how Alan was and how he loved his life more than anything. There was no way he would risk his life to stay in a dangerous place.
But then, alpha Derick could only oblige, since he was his king now.
"Perfect." Decratic oversaw the land beyond the fortress, where the monsters laid their nests. People in the Celestial Moon pack, not even their bravest warriors had ever ventured further than the fortress. "Zeke."
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Zeke approached Decratic. They were alone in the highest room in the west tower, where you could see everything from up here.
"Prepare the Asturi Stem. We will make a quick visit."
"Yes, my lord." With that, Zeke left to make the preparation.
The quick visit happened without anyone knowing it. All of the people assumed the king was in the west tower, resting for the rest of the day because of a long journey and didn’t want to be bothered.
However, the truth was; Decratic was miles away from the Celestial Moon pack with only his trusted worshipper, ventured deeper beyond the fortress of the pack, went further into the darkness of the Untouchable Land.
No one had ever gone this deep, aside from Zeke before this.
It was him, who had brought the Asturi Stem to a certain place, in the deepest of the Untouchable Land. The previous king, king Aeon, had been in constant need of Asturi Stem for a decade with the suggestion from lady Cyan, in order to keep the Celestial Moon pack in check and rendered them unable to make any move with the, seemingly, neverending attack from the monsters.
But, the Asturi Stem would end up in Zeke’s hand. He had been living in this part of continent, the part, where no one ever touched, feeding the monsters with dark magic and...
"Here... my lord." Zeke opened his arms, showing the path to Decratic.
They were in the valley and what Zeke showed to Decratic was a small path, where you could see stairs that would bring you down to the lower plains of the valley.
The more you went down, the hotter the atmosphere became, as if you went straight into a volcano, at the same time, you would hear a heavy breath that could shake the valley walls. They kept going down beside the steep valley sides.
Along with the heavy breath, as if there were thousand of horses dying, vaguely they could hear the stream of water the moment they arrived at the flat valley floor.
Something was moving in the dark, something big and scaly.
"I have taken care of it, in faith for your return. It will be ready at your service, my lord." Zeke knelt down in front of Decratic.
Decratic was a dark creature, his worshippers could control their opponent’s mind, but for him, he could do beyond that...
Once he regained his full power, his control was not limited to human and shifters alike... it was beyond that.
"Good job, Zeke. Good job."
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