Spurned Luna’s Return: On Your Knees, Alpha Chase

Meanwhile…

At the royal garden, the king received a huge backlash as the glowing red hand returned to him after failing to get into the late queen’s mansion. Surprisingly, an array had been set all around it and it was something he as a warlock couldn’t undo.

Their kingdom had just one sorcerer- Antero Oswald- and he was already dead and kept in the morgue.

If there was any of his subjects that had become a sorcerer, he would get news of it. But this one got in unnoticed and dared to set an array in his deceased wife’s mansion. What an insult!

He closed the book and kept it back in his spatial ring, taking out several bottles seconds later.

He downed the contents of the 8 bottles after removing the corks. He didn’t mind the bitterness or awful taste of the liquids. What was crucial was getting better, before his kingdom was ruined.

Half an hour later, his eyes had returned to normal and he had the strength to walk and even fly, though not so high, even with the help of his sceptre but it was better than nothing.

He immediately levitated and flew in the direction of his wife’s mansion.

***

The couple had successfully cleared all the beasts that got in their way- both regular and conscious ones. They finally reached a massive gate. Upon opening it, they found there was just a small blue chest placed in the centre of a golden table.

The chest was big and apart from that, it didn’t look impressive. But maybe what it contained was the special thing.

Phoenix walked forward and attempted to open it when he was sent backwards forcefully, his back violently hitting the wall.

Worriedly, she cried out, “Phoenix, are you alright?”Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

She ran to help him sit up as he groaned.

“Sorry, dear,” she whispered as she stroked his back, “Does it hurt?” she asked softly.

He nodded, “I don’t know what it is but it’s very dangerous,” he stated the obvious to which she nodded.

“Cephina, is this the thing you asked me to come here for?” she asked her battle spirit who had already awakened.

“Yes, yes. Go claim what’s yours, Lavana,”

“What’s in there is mine?”

“Affirmative. Go get it,”

Lavana stood up and headed towards the table. Her worried mate asked,”What are you doing, Lavana?” his tone was that of worry.

“Cephina says it’s fine for me to approach,” she revealed. Just focus on recovery. I’ll be with you in a jiffy,” She then opened the chest without any force sending her flying like it did her mate.

Phoenix was stunned, “Isla,”

Without looking at him, she smilingly replied, “You call me by my middle for the first time,”

“No, it isn’t. Just that I do so when you’re asleep,” Phoenix replied through mind link.

“I see. But now you’ve come out in the open like this. I like it,”

“I’ll call you more of that if you like it,”

“Any name you call me, as long as it’s with that melodious voice of yours, is acceptable,” she replied as she took out a much smaller silver chest with a fuchsia flower engraved on its lid and branches of bleeding heart flowers on the other sides.

It felt really warm in her hand and she had the urge to open it but decided against it.

“I think we have company,” Phoenix who was already healed of his injury disclosed, quickly getting to his feet and rushing to put his right hand around her waist.

“Let’s get out of here,” he said and she nodded.

Light covered them and they vanished. They appeared right outside the mansion. They couldn’t go further than that because Phoenix felt a force restricting him from appearing anywhere father.

Lavana felt this pressure was familiar and looking up, she found her guess to be right.

That hand was here!

Not too far from them, the king stood, holding his raisin-coloured sceptre, the open grey book levitating in front of him, the particular page glowed as the king placed his bleeding right wrist on it. He looked pale but he didn’t seem to care about the pallor shown on his face.

“It turns out, you are actually that Phoenix I know about. You’re a hybrid, huh?” the king laughed evilly before continuing, “That bastard father of yours actually hid the important fact that you were a sorcerer from me. Great! I found out now. As long as you’re in my kingdom, you can’t leave,”

“Your Majesty, what is it you want?” Phoenix asked.

“Where are the other two who joined hands in the death of my wife and prized Antero?” King Drake asked.

“Um… We’re not telling. You should be happy that you found two of the killers. Unfortunately, since you know about me being a hybrid, I’ll have to silence you forever,” Phoenix said.

The king scoffed, “This demon hand’s ultimate power is even stronger than Antero. I never wanted to use it but you forced me,”

“Your Majesty, if what I know is correct, as long as we can withstand the pressure of the hand above us for three hours, you’ll still die, since that hand drains your lifeforce and shortens your lifespan,”

“You…” the king was speechless.

“Lavana,” Phoenix took out two chairs and had her sit on one, “Since we can’t leave here, let’s be rested while waiting for the old fool to die,”

“Good idea,” Lavana nodded, while still holding the small chest tightly with both hands.

Seeing this unbothered action of the couple, the king’s rage reached new peaks.

Behind them, the mansion crumbled and many wiz servants in the mansion fled out of it but couldn’t leave successfully as they were restrained by the array that Phoenix had set up earlier.

They tearfully begged the king to take down the array. Out of the ruins, a gigantic serpent arose. Its screech made many of them weak in the knees.

“Your Majesty, help us!” they cried out frantically hitting the array.

The pissed serpent lunged at the servants and gobbled quite a number of them up. This frightened the few ones that were still alive.

“Oh, king. You do live up to your reputation as a heartless man. I wonder why you’re holding us captive just because my mate killed that old wife of yours. It’s not because of love, is it?” Phoenix mocked.

“Phoenix….”

“Excuse me, old King, you’re not worthy to call my name. I prefer hearing my title,” Phoenix casually said as he played with his peacock fan.

It was his well-known weapon and it’s said that once it makes an appearance, those whom it targets either die or surrender.

Now that he’d brought it out even when pressured this much…

King Drake didn’t care about the lives of those lowly servants and a few guards who were serving as appetizers for the awakened ancient serpent demon.

But if he continued making use of that glowing hand to suppress them to death, it would be futile, as that demon would break out of the array. The couple would still escape its reach but as for him who was already having issues standing…

If that demon creature also roamed about in the kingdom, it would wipe almost everyone out.

Then, only the light wiz kingdom would exist- something he couldn’t allow to happen!

“So Your Majesty, what do you choose, liberate us and save your people, or you continue using that hand to suppress us?” Phoenix asked after giving his mate an apple to consume.

“Savage Lord, I will come for you two later,” he removed his hand from the book and closed it.

As he tried to put it back in his storage ring, he felt something wrap around it. It was quite warm and fluffy but that’s not the vital issue. The fluffy thing was trying to snatch his forbidden book.

He found it to be the main tail of the Olmpha female.

“You…” he tried to keep custody of it, to no avail. In seconds, the book was already snatched from him and given to the smiling first prince of his enemy kingdom. Damn it!

“I’ll help you safeguard it. Don’t worry,” Phoenix said with a smile that didn’t reassure the latter, putting the book in his spatial ring.

With nothing restricting them, the couple rose from the chairs.

“You can have these chairs, Your Majesty,” Lavana said as light covered her and her mate. After they smilingly waved at him, they vanished.

“Bastards!” the enraged king yelled as he fell to the ground. He quickly rose up though with the aid of his scepter.

“You damn demon, because of you they escaped my grasp,” he muttered resentfully.

“You lowly warlock. You had me chained in that dirty cell for so long with the help of that old fart. Now that he’s gone, the seal weakened naturally and with the thing I’m protecting already taken, I have no need to play the weak one. I won’t fight you. I’ll just cause some little havoc on your kingdom,” the demon serpent said after breaking out of the array.

“I won’t let you as long as I live,” the resolute king declared, hurriedly taking out his wenge-coloured spell book.

“It’s not up to you, weakling,” the unbothered serpent vanished. The king became very worried on seeing this. Since when could this serpent vanish? He and his wife had discovered it years back in the evil forest with a blue chest that couldn’t be opened close to it. And the snake was unconscious at the time. So he had Antero create a secret passage in his wife’s mansion to seal the snake and hide that chest in a special room. Other conscious demon beasts were also put in there to prevent ignorant thieves from knowing about the chest.

He was sure that the chest contained something precious and beneficial. Maybe it was immortality pills or some sort of precious herb that could make one extremely powerful.

Every year, he would have Antero sneak in people from other races to attempt to open it but unfortunately, they died upon contact with the chest. He’d been so angry just now that he didn’t pay too much attention but that Olmpha female indeed held a small chest that he’d never seen before. Could it be what that blue chest actually contained? So that large chest could only be touched by a wolf sovereign without any backlash? Now the damn couple had gotten their hands on the biggest treasure!

What was he to do now? Go after the couple, or the serpent demon?

After a minute he decided to go after the couple. The savage lord wouldn’t be easily restrained by a demonic hand. It only meant one thing- he was weaker than before and that Olmpha wasn’t too powerful. As long as he can suppress them and get close, he can snatch the chest and obtain what was rightfully his.

When he’s become powerful, he can easily send that pompous demon serpent to its ancestors!

He took out a bottle containing healing pills which he consumed.

***

Meanwhile, the serpent, true to its word, was causing a lot of damage to buildings and taking a lot of lives and there was chaos as many fled to wherever they felt would be a safe spot for them while wondering where their king was. Wasn’t he supposed to protect them and fight this thing? General Karlh and his many subordinates only had the strength to flee along with the fear-gripped subjects.

That bastard mate of the Olmpha turned out to be the Savage Lord. He was a hybrid but he’d made them swallow a certain pill. If they attempted to tell the truth in any form, they would immediately die horrible deaths and they knew he meant every word! His appearance in the kingdom brought them so much bad luck!