The king, however, didn’t seem to be too concerned. He sneered at Sebastian. “What now? You managed to trick that dumbass Chandler and buried his entire pack. Now what do you have left with those losers you gathered?”
I glanced at Sebastian, whose face fell. Was his confidence wavering at all? It was hard to tell. He seed so steady and sure of himself.
“Do you think those guys would follow you if you didn’t bewitch them? You’re no king or leader!”
I wanted to tell the king that, unfortunately Sebastian actually did bewitch them. As soon as the king’s words ended, they started assaulting the king’s guards, unstoppable.
The guards recovered from their laughing attack quickly, defending the king and standing their ground.
Sebastian moved through the chaos, the Dagger of rcy raised.
“Watch out!” I shouted, warning the king’s guards. To , Sebastian and Dylan were equally bad, but I’d rather deal with living beings than the half-living, half-dead, mindless monsters.
However, my reminder didn’t change anything. Sebastian plunged the blade into the heart of one of the king’s guards. He smirked at the king tauntingly, and stabbed another as he chanted so words.
The fallen warriors stood up again. Their faces were blank, their bodies empty. They were Sebastian’s puppets now!
Imdiately, they turned on the other royal guards, their own allies, and started attacking.
It was just like Sebastian said. The king had hand delivered him an entire army to convert for his own uses. With the Dagger of rcy, the more n the King brought, the more will be added to his own puppet force. His puppets would more than double at this rate!
The Alpha King glared at Sebastian and took several steps back. He didn’t look so confident or sure of himself now.
“What have you done to them!?” he shouted.
“Oh, I enjoy seeing you like this, cousin! Now, you’re the scared coward, aren’t you?” Sebastian shifted his attention to his puppet army and ordered. “Take them all down!”
I watched, horrified as those mindless warriors threw themselves into the fight. They were fearless and it was still hard to tell if they felt pain or not. Even if they did feel pain, they didn’t slow down because of it. Any ti one of them was injured, they would get right back up and keep fighting.
Whenever one of the king’s guards was taken down, the puppets dragged them back to Sebastian and he’d stab them and turn them into another puppet. Sebastian’s army got larger and larger, and it would overwhelm the king’s guards briefly.
When I’d first sent Eros off, I hoped he’d cross paths with Soren and bring him back with help. Now that I saw what Sebastian was capable of, I wanted Soren and his n to stay as far away from him as possible.
It was like watching a demon claw his way from hell and devour whoever they saw, turning those in their way into horrible, horrendous monsters.
The guards must have realized it now because they started to panic.
The dungeons filled with curses and screams of fear and terror.
I covered my ears, but the sounds still got through, making the entire dungeon tremble and shake as the screams continued.
I saw the awful smirk on Sebastian’s face. He was drunk on vengeance, crazy and wild. He was the king of demons and he looked it!
The Alpha King’s face fell and seeing he was most likely losing the battle, he motioned for his guards to retreat and they all obeyed instantly. “Well, let’s find another day to finish this then,” he said as he backed away.
A wall at the end of the corridor began to lower. It would cut Sebastian’s puppets off!
However, the stone wall stopped halfway down.
Sebastian scoffed. “Have you forgotten that I am the real master of this place? There’s nothing about the palace that you know and I don’t!”
The king froze for a second and imdiately turned to escape, but it was too late.
Sebastian’s warriors pounced. So were in human form, and so had shifted, but even as wolves, they were still slaves to Sebastian’s will.
A sickening shudder ran through my gut as Sebastian’s army tore through what remained of the Alpha King’s n. The tunnel beca a grueso scene of gushing blood and tearing flesh. Armor and limbs flew in every direction as horrified screams of pain and terror echoed into silence.
The scent of copper and rust filled the air, turning my stomach. I wanted to get away but I was still tied up and Sebastian was right next to . If I tried to escape, he’d pounce on .
He seed distracted and occupied but I couldn’t risk him not paying attention to at this mont. It seed unlikely he’d forgotten about , especially since he was winning!
The last of the royal guards sputtered his final breath, leaving the king standing alone to face Sebastian’s insatiable, bloodthirsty horde.
Then, in unison, they jumped at the king, about to tear him apart!
“Keep him alive!” Sebastian ordered, and then he turned to and smirked viciously; his eyes glinted with pure excitent.
I cringed away from him.
This was his mont. He’d captured and could use for whatever he needed. He’d defeated Dylan, the current king, his ex-Beta who’d betrayed him. He was riding the high of success.
Sebastian went to a corner passageway. He touched sothing on the ground that I couldn’t see too well. The dungeon wall moved and revealed a large, open space behind it.
I peered around Sebastian as best I could and saw what looked like so kind of altar at the center of the open space.
Two of Sebastian’s puppets hauled a struggling, squirming Dylan to the altar. They laid the real Dylan on it and tied him down.
Smirky, Sebastian stepped forward and searched Dylan’s pockets and clothes. It didn’t take him long to find what he was looking for—the two pieces of the artifact that Eros had taken from , the Sheath of Protection and the Moonlit Crystal.
Now he had all three parts of the Blade of Souls!
With swift movents, Sebastian put all parts together. He turned to with that sa, vicious smirk. It was like he didn’t think anything could go wrong and nothing could stop his wish from coming true.
From the looks of it, he wasn’t wrong.
“Now, be a good girl and perform the soul exchange. I’ll spare you and your baby if you do. But if not...”
He grinned and held the Blade of Souls out to .
“Hah. Hahahaha!” It was Dylan interrupting.
I turned toward the altar where Dylan was laughing maniacally. He strained against the bindings and looked at with bloodshot eyes.
“Stupid girl...I can’t believe it. I can’t believe that you’re going to serve the cruel murderer your parents died to avoid,” Dylan called out.
I paused. “What do you an?!”
Sebastian snarled, interjecting the conversation. “She is making up for her parents’ sins, her whole family’s sins! They betrayed their real king, and put you, a useless piece of shit that doesn’t know how to rule the country, on the throne! She should be grateful I’m showing her rcy.”
“First, let’s get this straight,” Dylan snapped, “My great-grandfather was the real crown prince and the heir to the throne! Why did he die early mysteriously? It wasn’t due to the so-called unknown illness, but because his dear brother, your great grandfather murdered him! Talking about the real king, you’re not, I should be! Secondly, her parents’ sins? Hahahahaha!”
I looked back and forth between Sebastian and Dylan. I didn’t care about their family strife, but I had never really heard the full story of what happened back then regarding my parents. The bits and pieces I’d gotten from Helen and others didn’t give a good idea of what really went down.
What I did know was that my parents did the soul swap, and then our pack was attacked and wiped out by the combined forces of many powerful and greedy alphas. Was there more to the story?
Dylan continued, “Her parents did the right thing. Had you not treated Helen the way you had, Jessica never would have done the soul exchange ritual.”
Sebastian scoffed. “Helen... that piece of shit cunt of a witch! She deserved every second of her punishnt because of her magical ddling. Who did she think she was, spreading rumors about my reign and my future?”
I gritted my teeth and clenched my jaw. From head to toe, I trembled.
“You know what... neither Kaleb nor Jessica wanted to do it. But after they saw what you did to Helen... after they witnessed your cruelty, they knew it was better for the country to remove you.” Dylan laughed again.
I could see the blood rise in Sebastian’s cheeks. He sneered, “My cruelty? What had I done wrong before then? I’d never been cruel to anyone. Yet, that cunt, Helen, still paid secret visits to the alphas around the country and hurt my reputation and reign, in the na of a stupid prophecy!”
Dylan scoffed and shook his head as best he could from where he was tied up.
As much as I wanted to scream at Sebastian for the horrible things he’d done to Helen, I felt like I was finally getting so answers, so I held my tongue.
“They were not wrong about how destructive you can be,” Dylan continued. “The only mistake Jessica made was sparing your life!”
Sebastian growled.
“She should have killed you right after the exchange when you were weak. Yet... she let you go. And afterward, you spread the rumor that Kaleb had a mysterious powerful artifact. All your talk of the Blade of Souls resulted in the destruction of Poni! Her stupid kindness and hesitation cost her not only her own life but her entire pack!”
I stared at Dylan, shocked.
“Dylan, this is between you and . Don’t waste any more of my ti with pointless bickering over the past. Let’s get this over with!”
Sebastian loosened my ropes and pushed closer to the altar. “Bitch, do it!"
I glared at him. Did he really think I would help him after what I just learned?
“I don’t know what to do,” I gritted through my teeth.
There was no way I was helping Sebastian, but there wasn’t any way for to get away either. I needed to stall.
“Oh, you’ll figure it out. I have faith in that... because you know, I was able to destroy Poni once before. I can do it again.” Sebastian grinned cruelly and held the knife out to .
How had he found out about the work we’d done on rebuilding Poni? We’d hidden the pack well. I even used magic!
I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised. Sebastian knew way more about this world than I did.
“You leave my pack alone!” I growled.
Sebastian sighed.
“Very well.” He gestured to the Blade of Souls. Smirking, he thrust a hand out and grabbed my neck, squeezing his fingers tightly around my throat.
“If you don’t follow my instructions, I will kill you in an instant. You and your baby, then your re-established Poni pack!”
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