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Gaining the relevant information that can help him convince Rex in accepting other Supernatural races to help them protect themselves, Kyran instantly heads back, wanting to give the news to Rex personally.

‘We can protect ourselves better with the help of the Dark Elves…’

‘Maybe we can even ally with the races that signed the oath pact with Queen Shanaela. Rex can definitely make them stronger, and they would be a formidable force if the high-rank Supernaturals and Humans decided to attack us again’

Kyran is determined to help Rex in protecting what they have left.

Out of everyone in the Silverstar Pack, he’s the one that knows what Rex is feeling right now the most. Losing his parents in cold blood is not something that even Rex can handle perfectly. Having lost his own parents and also his sisters at the hands of the Supernaturals, Kyran knows exactly the grief Rex is going through.

It’ll be selfish of him to not relate to what he’s feeling and don’t help as much as he can.

When he was at his lowest and doesn’t have anywhere to go since he just lost his sisters to the Supernaturals, Rex is the one that helped him keep on living and gives a place for him to call home. Even though they were not related, Rex takes care of him in his own way.

Even though Kyran created many problems, Rex has never once thought of abandoning him.

Kyran was not innocent enough to not know that Rex probably does that because he had already turned him into a Werewolf, but he can’t also deny that maybe Rex actually thought of him as family, his actions dictate him more to the latter.

The problem with the Platchi and Atkins Families, Kyran was the one that caused that.

But even then Rex fought them earnestly without blaming him too much, and that is engraved deeply in Kyran’s mind. What he wanted the most right now is help Rex as much as possible until he recover from his grief.

Although he looks fine, Kyran knows that he’s hiding the sorrow within.

Just as he landed on the grass intending to dash forward, Kyran’s body stopped as he turn his head around to look at his back. There’s a Dark Elf behind him, one of the Dark Elves that are with Kendel earlier which he teleported to the Dark Humming Forest.

Since he teleported them to the northern part that has been cleared, they should be fine.

Raising his eyebrows, Kyran then asked, “What do you want?”

Without even replying the Dark Elf raised her hands to show a broken bow that got split into two, and this made Kyran frown as he doesn’t know what the Dark Elf wants with him regarding the broken bow.

“Why can’t you just say what you want?”, Kyran added in annoyance, it’s like the Dark Elf is mute.

But then he remembered that the only Dark Elf that can speak the human language was Kendel since he was from a noble family, the other Dark Elves that are with him can’t speak human language.

The female Dark Elf points at Kyran with her index finger before she points at the broken bow.

Upon seeing this, Kyran points at himself with still the same frown on his face, “Did I break your bow? Well, what do you want me to say? I’m sorry?”, he said as he finds that communicating with this female Dark Elf is quite hazardous.

Soon enough he realized that the female Dark Elf is not pointing at the bow, but the orb instead.

At the center of the bow, there’s a small orb that has dimmed down, and she’s pointing at it wanting Kyran to do something. But since he doesn’t have the slightest clue on what he needs to do, Kyran waves his hand intending to leave, “Whatever, I’ll just leave”

Just as he turns around, he sensed something which makes him sigh dejectedly.

“Do you really need to cry like this…?”, Kyran mutters softly as he heard the female Dark Elf start crying, he was never fond of hearing a woman cry due to his sisters. Now he can’t leave, he needs to figure out what this Dark Elf wanted him to do.

Upon hearing Kyran’s footsteps getting closer, the female Dark Elf looks up with round eyes.

When she realized that Kyran didn’t leave yet, the female Dark Elf immediately wipe the tears drizzling down her cheek before she puts on a bright smile. Handing over the broken bow to Kyran, she cloaked her hand with dark bronze energy before pointing at the orb.

Swish!

Slowly, the dark bronze energy imbued the orb like a fervent wind.

“You want me to put my energy into the orb?”, Kyran replied, activating his dark element.

The female Dark Elf nodded repeatedly seeing Kyran cloaking his hands with dark elements, it seems that is what she wanted him to do. Although he doesn’t know why he decided to comply as there’s no hostile energy from this female Dark Elf.

Psshh…

Kyran imbued his dark elements into the orb, making it increasingly glowing brighter.

Both of their energies collide but there was no friction as both are not trying to hurt one another, but this act makes the female Dark Elf widen her eyes in surprise. While looking at their energies swirling with each other, her eyes got increasingly bigger.

Even Kyran was confused upon seeing her reaction, “Wasn’t this what you want?”

Shifting her eyes to Kyran, the female Dark Elf turns her head to the side, blushing slightly.

Almost as if he was making the orb comes back to life, the dark elements that went inside the orb slowly seeped outside and made the orb emanate a sizzling dark energy. Soon enough, the bow got covered by the said energy and started reattaching on its own.

It didn’t take long for the bow to be fixed completely before Kyran handed it back.

Upon seeing the newly fixed bow that has now retained some of the blackness due to Kyran’s dark elements, the female Dark Elf hugs it tightly as if it was the most precious thing in her entire world. Something that she doesn’t want to let go of until her death.

Now that Kyran looks at her closer, the female Dark Elf caught his eye.

From her appearance alone she should be around the same age as Kyran, at least the Dark Elf’s age for a teen like Kyran. Her face is quite delicate and gentle, contrary to the sharp look other Dark Elves have. Like a spectacular waterfall, the Dark Elf has very long white hair that reaches all the way to the back of her thighs.

She tucked her hair behind her ears, exposing her faultless and smooth neck.

Kyran unconsciously gulp as he saw the female Dark Elf looking up at him with her glowing blue eyes that are somewhat magical in their own way, and this forces him to turn his face away. “If that’s it then I’m leaving”

Just before he can turn around to leave, his eyes went round when he felt something hit his cheek.

It feels like soft pillows pressing against his cheek which is a foreign feeling to him. Kyran glanced to the side and finds the female Dark Elf kissing his cheek, she did it passionately with her eyes closed showing that she was not worried.

Even though Kyran can just stab her if he wanted to due to their distance, she did it anyway.

Before Kyran can fully grasp what was happening, the female Dark Elf pulled back and takes a couple of steps back more. Looking at the stunned Kyran, she smiled bashfully before she said in a serene voice, “Nalaea, my name is Nalaea”

After she said that, she dashed away, leaving Kyran who is still dumbfounded.

Kyran blinks his eyes a couple of times not long after Nalaea left, he then lifts up his hand to touch his right cheek which got kissed by her before he looks in the direction where she left, “What the hell was that for…?”

A moment later,

It was about twenty minutes later after the incident with Nalaea, but Kyran is still in a daze.

While heading back to the castle to bring back the news to Rex, he still can’t take his mind off of the kiss that he received earlier. “Hahh… why am I thinking about it? Focus, Kyran! Focus!”, Kyran mutters out loud, slapping both of his cheeks together.

Soon enough he reaches back to the castle, he then looks up with a frown.

Kyran saw the first floor of the castle glowing with a powerful red energy that he recognized to be Rex’s energy, but this is unexpected as he shouldn’t be exposing this much energy if they wanted to be secretive about their location.

‘Unless… someone is attacking the castle!’, he thought before he turns into his Werewolf form.

Due to the thick red kingly energy that overflowed the first floor of the castle, Kyran can’t quite sense what was happening inside. With that, there’s only one way to find out as he dashes swiftly toward the castle.

Upon the gate opening, Kyran was greeted by a terrifying sight.

Blood is leaking out from the bottom gap of the entrance into the castle, the scent clearly indicates that it was blood. With the frown on his face becoming stronger, Kyran quickly dashed through the bridge and immediately pushed open the entrance to the castle.

As he steps inside, his feet are flooded with blood while he looks at the center of the great hall.

Flunra and Adhara are in the center of the great hall putting their claws in the gaps of a weird red portal gate, trying to pull it open. Adhara is already in her Werewolf form, while Flunra is already using numerous kinds of ancient runes to strengthen his power.

“What’s happening here?!”, Kyran shouted from the entrance.

Taking their attention off of the red portal gate for a brief moment, the two of them saw Kyran before both of their eyes lit up, “Kyran! Quick help us force open this gate!”, Adhara shouted with clear panic in her expression.

Although he doesn’t know what was happening, he decided to help them without much thought.

Harnessing every ounce of the strength of the Glacial Umbra Werewolf bloodline, Kyran jabbed his claws into the gaps of the gate and started pulling with everything he got. The three of them keeps on pulling at the same time but got no result at all.

The red portal gate didn’t even budge a little bit, showing that their attempt was futile.

Clang!

“Kraargh!”, Adhara grunted, feeling her claws throbbing from how much strength he exerted.

Not only Adhara but Flunra and Kyran also experience the same thing but they force themselves to the fullest extent, even when their claws are being peeled by the force. “We can’t force it open, it’s impossible!”, Flunra exclaimed with rough breaths.

“But we need to open it…”, Adhara mutters, searching for a way to open the gate.

Upon hearing their conversation, Kyran can’t help but asks again, “Just what on earth is happening here?! Why is there a gate and why does the entire great hall is flooded with blood?!”

“It’s a long story, but Rex is inside and we need to help him”, Flunra replied with a frown.

For more than an hour, the three of them try every kind of method they can think of. Starting from using raw physical strength, spirit energy, elemental energy, and even ancient runes, none of them seems to work.

Even though they were out of ideas, they need to keep trying.

The level of championship is at an astounding level six, it breaks the realm of possibilities.

Flunra has told them that there are only five levels of championship, but Rex miraculously got the sixth level which should be impossible based on his experience. Not only that but if no Werewolves are able to clear level 5, then level 6 would be impossible even for someone like Rex.

“W-What are we going to do?”, Kyran asks with both of his hands holding his knees.

Adhara glances at the red gate portal that is stubbornly unmoving before she sighs dejectedly, there was nothing else they could do to open the red gate portal, “At this rate, we can only wait. Believe in Rex, believe that he would come out of this alive”

Despite how ridiculous that sounds, they have no other choice just like Adhara said.

‘Hang in there, Rex!’