She recognized the man, he was indeed a cousin of the former beta during her father’s reign, but right now, he was no more than a slave.
With the drug that they fed them and the anklet on his leg, he couldn’t shift into his beast and it was nearly impossible to escape from here.
“Good! So, you are the dirty blood of that beta!?” One of the slave trainers landed a hard punch on his face. “Should we rip his throat so he will not make noise and start to work?” He contemplated with his four fellow trainers.
“Yeah, cutting his tongue will be nice, so he will not be able to complain.”
“It is so funny to see how they complain about this kind of work.”
Right.
Compared to what the people from the Howling Wolf pack had to do when they enslaved them, this kind of work was heaven.
Iris immediately took her shovel and went to dig somewhere, because she didn’t want to see the bloody scene that would follow later.
“Where are you going?”
Iris bumped into someone and because she was too exhausted, she didn’t have the energy to steady herself in time and fell on her butt.
She grimaced and then lifted her head to see who it was.
Her eyes clashed with Stone’s menacing ones, the slave trainer that was in charge of her.
“Trying to run away?”
Iris shook her head.
“I… I am going to work…”
Stone shifted his attention to the commotion behind Iris and watched how the man howled in pain when they broke his arms.
“Why? You don’t like to see that?” He nodded to the event that unfolded behind, but Iris didn’t want to turn her head. “Your father and brother really enjoy such scenes, you know.”
“I am not them,” Iris replied in a small voice.
Anger flashed in Stone’s eyes. “So, you think you are better than them?!” He reached out to her face and pinched her chin, so their eyes could meet.
“I have never hurt you,” Iris replied, she bit her lip in fear. Hanna said that she couldn’t talk back, or else they would hurt her even more.
“Their blood runs in your veins, I doubt that you had never hurt someone,” Stone scoffed and then released her face. “Work, or I will give you to those men. They will be happy to take you.”
Iris shuddered when she heard that, but she knew that they wouldn’t do anything sexual with her, since she was the alpha’s slave, though they were still able to torture her in different ways.
With every step that Iris took, she felt her legs almost give away, her muscles burned in pain and even though the sun had set, she could feel her head was so hot.
However, when she crouched down to dig the hard ground, she felt hurried footsteps and then there were many people running past her.
Because Iris couldn’t hear what they said, she was very late to realize that they were in danger. Once she looked in the direction they were running away from, she could see a horde of monsters.
Each monster was twice the size of normal people, with four arms and a body as hard as rock.
At the same time, the slave trainers and the guards were rushing forward to fight these monsters in their beast form.
However, at this point, Iris was too late to escape and she was so close to the battlefield. No one would care so much as to save her from this catastrophe, knowing how much they hated her.
Therefore, Iris tried to run as fast as she could, ignoring the pain in her legs and how her lungs were burning in pain. She needed to escape from this chaos.
“THE MONSTERS! THE MONSTERS ARE HERE! CALL MORE GUARDS!”
The sun had set when the monsters started wreaking havoc in the mining area. Vicious roars and growls could be heard in the distance, as countless beasts came forward to fight those creatures.
Howling Wolf pack and Blue Moon pack were neighboring packs, as they shared the mining area during those days before the horrifying attack, and behind the mining area was the Goffa mountain, where those monsters lived.
There would be a monster hunt event that would be held every three months, where they would kill the monsters around the mountain.
But, ever since Blue Moon pack enslaved Howling Wolf pack people, they used to send them away to do the job, where Cane would lead his own people to do it.
Though Cane could run away during that time, he couldn’t do it, since alpha Gerald swore he would behead all of the members of his pack and put their heads on the spikes. He would lose his people forever.
Cane knew that the nefarious alpha would go through with that plan, more so, he didn’t have anywhere to go. Going through Goffa mountain, which was practically a monsters’ lair, was not an option when you didn’t do thorough preparation, it would be suicide.
Therefore, the mining area was the most risky place to be attacked by monsters.
Iris felt like her lungs would explode as she ran. Her head was so dizzy and her limbs were numb.
There were only beasts that charged in different directions to where Iris headed and also the mining slaves, who were trying to escape that she could see around her.
But then, her eyes caught sight of a little girl around the age of five. She was crying, not knowing where to go and the loud noises around her were so scary to her. This was the first time for her to see monsters and they looked terrifying.
Iris rushed toward her and grabbed her small hand. “Come… here! Come here, come with me!” Iris breathed heavily when she spoke, her lungs were burning.
Not knowing where to go, the little girl followed her. Her stubby legs couldn’t bring her fast enough and she stumbled a few times, crying and asking for her father.
“Ssh… ssh… we will look for your father later, okay? But, not now…” Iris panicked when she noticed became out of hands. There were loud of vicious growls, but this time it didn’t come from the beasts, but the monsters.
The horde of monsters managed to hit back the beasts and they went deeper into the residential area.
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