“Shut up! I told you not to use Beryl’s voice! And I know my daughter is alive! As soon as your soul leaves her body, my Beryl will come back!” I almost went hysterical. The fear of losing my daughter made my heart tighten in my chest, making it hard for me to breathe.
“Crystal, you can’t trust her. Noreen’s good at deceiving people. Beryl’s alive, and we have to find her,” Rufus said, throwing his arms around my waist and holding me tightly to prevent me from losing control.
Noreen grinned, her eyes black and horrific. All of a sudden, a small crystal ball appeared in her palm.
Her witchcraft was powerful. With the flick of her wrist, a huge cloud of black fog burst out from her little body, blotting out all the light.
“Beryl’s body is a real treasure. She carries such a strong black witch bloodline. If Olivia were still alive, she would’ve been very happy. I should just leave my residual soul in this body,” Noreen’s voice seemed to come from the black fog. The place she was in was sometimes bright and sometimes dark, and she seemed like a ghost climbing out from hell.
The fog suddenly condensed into long, black tentacles. They came from all directions and wrapped themselves around my limbs so quickly that I didn’t have time to react.
The tentacles lifted me into the air and threw me at the wall.
Rufus was still holding onto me tightly, and he bore the brunt of the blow. Together, we slammed into the wall and had the air knocked out of our lungs.
But Noreen wasn’t done. She started chanting an ancient and mysterious incantation. The black fog gradually turned into dark red blood, and like a ruthless torrent, it attacked me and Rufus. It was the Red Moon Spell!
The second the red blood touched us, we would decay like dead leaves.
“Watch out! Don’t let it touch you!”
I wanted to push Rufus away, but Rufus moved quicker than me. He turned around and protected me with his back.
Just as the red tendrils of blood were about to smash into him, Rufus’ strong lycanthropic power burst out from his body. All the red blood instantly splattered around into pools of sticky, black slime.
Noreen became agitated, and her voice became dangerously low. “I hate the way you two love each other. It’s disgusting!”
As she spoke, she conjured more tentacles that came at us again.
Rufus held me and dodged her attacks nimbly. The tentacles weren’t that fast, but their strength was in their numbers.
Noreen was very cunning. She used more than ten tentacles to block our path and tied us together. Then she started chanting another ancient incantation.
This time, Noreen used her witchcraft to wield the sword mounted on the wall. The sword suddenly came to life, pointing its sharp blade at me and Rufus.
“Don’t make a move yet. Let Noreen use up all her strength. This is just her fragmental soul, after all. When her strength is used up, she won’t be able to do anything to us. Maybe we’ll get Beryl back,” Rufus whispered urgently.
I glanced at him from over my shoulder and nodded knowingly. “Okay.”
Noreen cackled and sent the sword flying toward us.
Just as Rufus was about to spring into action, I felt the shackles on my body suddenly disappear.
Rufus and I fell to the ground with a loud thud. Confused, we exchanged wary glances.
All of a sudden, Noreen howled in pain. She held her head and collapsed to the ground, shouting, “Stop it! Go away! If you don’t stop right now, I’ll blow us both up!” Noreen’s expression kept changing constantly. Finally, she showed a look of anger. When she spoke again, I heard a familiar child’s voice. “Don’t hurt my mommy!”
Crystal’s POV
When I heard this familiar voice, I was so shocked that I grabbed Rufus ” hand and blurted, “Beryl’s still alive!”
Rufus, on the other hand, wasn’t as excited as me. He hesitated and whispered, “Could it be a trick?”
“No, I don’t think so.”
I didn’t have the time to overthink things. I rushed up and threw my arms around Beryl’s little body. I wished I could hold her like this forever so that no one could hurt her again.
“My sweetheart, you must be in so much pain,” I sobbed, tears of joy streaming down my face.
I cupped Beryl’s cheeks and looked into her eyes carefully.
Beryl pouted. Tugging my sleeve, she whimpered, “Mommy, I’m scared.”
As soon as she finished speaking, her expression suddenly changed, and Noreen’s voice appeared again. “Go away, brat! This body is mine now.”
“No, it’s mine! You go away!” Beryl’s childish voice replied.
“I’m your senior. You should be respectful. I took your body, so let me use it. Why are you so stingy?”
“I won’t let you hurt my mommy!”
The two voices kept switching, as though Noreen and Beryl were fighting against each other in one body.
Beryl’s childish face was covered with sweat. She suddenly burst into tears and sobbed, “Mommy, help me! It hurts!”
Seeing Beryl like this felt like a knife was stabbing into my heart. I anxiously held her up and asked, “What should I do? Baby, tell me what I can do to help you. .
“Blood…
” Beryl whispered weakly I thought I heard it wrong, so I leaned closer to her and asked, “What did you say?”
“Blood!” Beryl burst into tears, her body contorting in pain in my arms, “Mommy, I need to drink your blood. Drinking your blood will help me fight the bad woman!”
“Okay, here! I’lI give you my blood. I’ll give you as much blood as you want!” I rolled up my sleeve without thinking and reached for the dagger on the ground, ready to cut my own wrist.
But Rufus quickly snatched the dagger out of my hand. Looking at me grimly, he barked, “Crystal, wake up! That’s Noreen! The second you give her your blood, everything will be over.”
“Noreen? How could it be Noreen? It’s Beryl…” As I spoke, I looked down at Beryl again. Only then did I see the unmasked greed and desire in her eyes.
That was something that only Noreen could exhibit.
I came back to my senses in an instant. I pushed Beryl away and stepped back in disbelief. “You lied to me, Noreen! You lied to me!”
Fortunately, Rufus had seen through Noreen’s trick in time. She dropped the act and cursed us angrily. “Damn you, lycan king! Just you wait! Once I get my full strength back, I won’t let you live!”
Rufus snorted coldly. “You couldn’t defeat me when you were alive. What makes you think you can do it now? Dream on.”
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