It was tricky when you have to fight a mind controller, not to mention the skillful one. But, for the note this was not the first time Lou had a face off with a mind controller.
Yes, they were pain in the ass, but there was a way to take them down if you were careful enough.
Red light came chasing down Gedam when Lou started attacked him, it destroyed a stone when the light hit it. The damage was unthinkable if it really hit you.
But, Gedam was agile enough to dodge everything, he moved around and got two beasts to attack Lou, which made the merchant had to kill one of them and restrain the other. It was not a good feeling to kill your comrade, but then it was either he had to kill them or he was the one, who would be killed.
They danced in this fight for a while, until Lou had enough of it and put fire around him, trapped him in this circle of flames, which ready to burn him down.
"Do you really think you have gotten me?!" Gedam shouted. "Watch this!"
Lou shouldn’t have looked at him, technically he didn’t, because all he could see was his reflection on the flames, but apparently, for someone as expert as Gedam, it was enough. Lou fell into his trick,
But, this was not like anything that he knew about the mind controller, because instead of controlling him, Lou fell into an illusion. This was a scene that he was very familiar with, the scene from his deepest nightmare.
"Fuck..." Lou cursed grimly when he was forced to witness how his mother died. She was known to be witch at the time where being a magic user was a sin in Karam continent.
But, what messed Lou up so much was; his mother was the last witch that the Karam people killed officially, because after that, change happened and they started to open up with the magic users.
Lou remembered the day before his mother’s execution, she told him how much she loved him. How he had to survive and not to use his magic.
His beautiful mother, who looked so radiant in her red dress, died wearing the same dress that she loved. His father allowed her to wear it as the last form of kindness for her, they said.
What a bullshit.
Lou was only six years old when his father took him to watch the last moment of his mother. What he meant by the last moment was when those people burned her alive and Lou still could smell the burning flesh that filled the air of that day.
What a kind father he had there...
And Lou repaid that kindness by making himself as his only child. He made sure, he wouldn’t have any other child aside from him, so he would be certain that he would only ’love’ him.
After the devastating death of his mother, the illusion brought him back to that night, where his mother talked to him for the last time.
Her haggard figure approached him and touched his shoulder, telling him to live. "Do not ever use your magic. Never use it."
Lou looked at her in the eyes, but he actually burned her, since she was the one, who touched him, it was easy for him to burn her.
And the illusion ended. Instead of his mother, it was Gedam, who was being caught in a fair. He roared painfully, as the flames couldn’t be put off, even when he rolled on the ground.
No one would be able to put it off, unless Lou canceled the spell and it would only end the moment there was nothing left of him, not even his bones.
"Seriously, my mother was not as bulky as you," Lou grumbled. "What an idiot."
The merchant closed his eyes. He won this battle, but there was still war that was waiting for him, thus he couldn’t let that stupid illusion to bother him.
Lou sighed deeply and watched how the battle kept progressing around them, but for sure, they were moving toward the palace, where the black beast led the way.
However, Dexter caught up with Cane. He still had a lot of things unresolved with the alpha. He would have avenged his lover if Decratic allowed him to go beyond the shield, but this alpha actually did him a favor by coming on his own.
"I am going to kill you the way you killed her," Dexter growled and Cane didn’t even give him think twice before he unleashed Lu. The lycan had been nagging in his head to play roll in this and Cane allowed him to deal with this nuisance before their eyes.
Cane didn’t have time to play around with Dexter, he needed to get to Iris as fast as he could and the lycan would do the job faster... frёeωebɳovel.com
On the other hand, inside the palace, Iris was consumed with rage once again with the sight of Kellan. She gritted her teeth to control her emotion, knowing it would give power to Decratic. She had done a great job all this time, she shouldn’t have ruined it.
However, it was not easy when everything around her triggered her. The sight of Kellan, what he said, especially when he started mentioning her babies with his dirty mouth. Iris wanted to rip him apart. She wanted him to die a miserable death.
Tear of anger rolled down her cheek when she minced Kellan’s body with her black wisp.
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter