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Chapter 10
ADRIANA CROSS
This was beyond bad. It was worse than I had imagined. Nikola's rogue armies had infiltrated the pack fast. Most of the rogues were in their wolf forms, while some were in their human forms with their extended claws and sharp canines.
I was still frozen, glancing around at the blood and bodies on the ground, and to my horror, the wounded and lifeless bodies around belonged to the pack's warriors and none from the rogues.
What the hell was going on?
I glanced around again, but I couldn't see a single dark witch in sight, but still, the sick suffocating aura of dark magic clogged the air.
Something was wrong.
“Adriana, behind you!” Maya yelled from my left and swiftly, she shifted into her brown wolf, attacking the rogue wolf that had aimed for me.
This pulled me out of my shock, and I took out an arrow and positioned my bow, aiming for a rogue who wasn't in his wolf form. Without hesitating, I shot at it, and with satisfaction, I watched the arrow, which was laced with aconite deadly to wolves, pierced the rogue right through the chest and came out through the back.
The rogue fell to the ground, unmoving. I was about to aim for another rogue wolf when I noticed slight movement from the rogue I'd just taken down. And to my horror, this rogue reawakened. He stood up from the bloodied ground, eyes completely black with the hole my arrow had made in his chest still much visible, but it didn't look like it bothered him in the slightest.
Fuck. Dark magic.
The dark energy I felt wasn't from any dark witch, but it was from these rogue armies. Nikola dark witches must have spelled them so they couldn't be hurt or, worse, killed.
A breathless gasp escaped my lungs as I looked around. Every rogue the pack's warriors had killed kept coming back to life. We were the only ones getting hurt and dying. This was a well-planned attack to successfully wipe out our kind once again.
I heard a painful scream from behind, and I turned around to see the wolf Maya had killed attacking her wolf. She looked badly injured and no matter how hard she bit into him or clawed at him, it was all useless. From my peripheral vision, I could also see Caden surrounded by a group of rogue wolves. We were all fighting a losing battle on an unequal footing. There was no way any of us would survive if this went on.
I took off my bracelet and used my magic to snap the rogue’s neck, leaving it to fall to the ground.
I shifted my attention to the rogue wolves surrounding Caden and did the same, snapping their heads.
Caden almost froze, his eyes instantly shifting to me. I glanced back at Maya to see the same shock and confusion in her eyes. It was almost like she couldn't believe what she was seeing. I could understand the shock in their eyes, but this wasn't the right time for that. I may have snapped their necks, but this was only temporary; soon, every one of these rogues would reawaken.
“Caden,” I shifted my attention to him, bringing back his focus. “These rogues have been spelled by dark magic. There's no way to kill them, they'll just keep coming back to life. I need to get to the borders of the pack, and once I'm able to cast a spell using the tainted blood in their veins, we can get rid of them,” I stopped talking; Caden and Maya were still frozen in shock. “Caden!” I snapped. “We don't have time, or everyone will end up dead,”
My words seemed to have gotten across to him because he was now on the move, together with Maya.
Caden instructed a few more warriors to accompany us, fighting rogue wolves that attacked us on the way to the borders.
We reached the borders of the territory, but unfortunately, we were surrounded by more rogues. Maya, Caden, and the warriors formed a circle around me, fighting against the rogues while I got started on the spell.
I flicked my hand at the rogue that lunged at me, using my magic to snap every bone in his body bringing him to his knees. I took out the blade Maya stuck in my boots, slitting his throat. I used his blood that had started to soak the earth to draw some witch markings on the ground, binding his life force to every rogue within the territory having dark magic flowing in its veins, and began chanting.
I channeled every form of magic around me, including magic from the earth we call nature magic. It was rare to feel so much magic in one place, but I could feel every ounce of magic even in the air. I could even tap into the ancestral magic soaked into the ancient walls and stones of the witches’ cemetery.
As my chants rose to their peak, I was able to unbind every ounce of dark magic in its veins, leaving the rogue wolf vulnerable. And with it binded with every breathing rogue army in the pack, just its death will affect the other rogues, killing them permanently.
Without wasting any second, I used my magic to rip out his heart, and instantly every rogue wolf dropped dead on the ground.
Before I could stand properly, Maya, now in her human form, crashed against me, hugging me. I was about to speak when I felt a foreboding presence around me. I glanced to my left to see a witch in a black cloak behind a tree. Her lips curled up in a sinister smile as she muttered something and I felt a dark force of magic heading my way, but it was too late to do a thing. Immediately, a piercing pain shot through my body, and darkness swallowed me completely.