219: UGLY MONSTER

UGLY MONSTER

"Why not? Red hair, if you tell me, I will give Lil Thing to you!" Lou raised his brows, his eyes gleamed with excitement when he gave that generous offer, even though the generous offer benefited him more than Iris, since Lil Thing costed a fortune to feed it. As a merchant, of course, this was a bad investment. 1

However, before their conversation could progress, in the distance someone screamed in fear. "MONSTER!"

At the same time the carriage stopped and this alerted Iris. "Are we there yet?" She looked out the window, but the nearest building was still a little bit faraway.

Meanwhile, Lou creased his brows deeply. They were inside the protection of the palace wall, how could a monster could breakthrough the defense and enter the palace territory?

"Miss! Don't come out!" Hanna opened the carriage door hastily, as she talked to Iris in hurry, her expression looked panic. "Don't come out!"

"What is happening?" Iris poked her head to see outside and gasped in fear to see two trolls and dozen of Brinetallons fought against the royal guards in their beast form.

Her last encounter with Brinetallon was when she stayed with Cane in his lycan form and the monster breakthrough the defense of the Blue Moon pack, since then she learned a little bit about that monster and knew how deathly their venom was, especially when she had experienced to take care the victim of their venom.

One Brinetallon was enough to overwhelm four beasts, let alone a dozen of them.

"Stay inside the carriage, miss! We don't know how many of them! More royal warriors will be here!"

For now, they were protected by the royal guards, but it didn't take so long to see how those guards couldn't hold them back any longer, victims from the beast side started to fall one by one rapidly.

Meanwhile, Lou jumped out of the carriage and watched the fighting scene before his eyes. His eyes turned cold to see this, but he was exceptionally calm, there was no fear at all.

"This is not good," he stated the obvious and then approached the front seat to talk with the coachman. "Can't you take us somewhere else?"

The coachman was dumbstruck, he was petrified, until he couldn't think straight, only after Lou's question, he nodded his head profusely.

From the look of it, the guards wouldn't be able to hold back the Brinetallon for a long time and they didn't know when the royal warrior would arrive, thus it was not wise to stay here and wait for those monsters to kill all of the guard and attack them next.

"Get back to your seat, little maid," Lou said to Hanna, as he climbed onto the carriage again and it took off toward different direction. "Don't worry, I will not let you die, until I got the answer from you. So, can you tell me now?" The merchant looked relax despite the situation and this made Iris bewildered.

The coachman took them back toward the king palace, retracing the way, where they came from.

"Red hair, I am waiting for your answer here," Lou reminded her, he was not affected by the dreadful situation, neither he looked wondered about how the monsters could be inside the palace walls. "Don't let me wait for long, okay? I will not be nice when I am running out of patient."

Iris didn't answer him, but her blue eyes shone with irritation, answering his question was the last thing that she wanted to do, but he kept pestering her.

Yet, all of sudden, Lou leaned forward and hugged her, he wrapped his arms around her body so tightly and at the same time, she felt there was something bursting, her surroundings was blasted, but Lou pressed her face against his chest and the next thing that she knew, she was in his arms, as they were already out of the carriage, while in front of them there was a monster, around five meters tall with small red eyes.

"Damn it!" Lou cursed under his breath. "Red hair, you owe me your life!" he smirked, he surely would ask for repayment from her, since he was a man that was full of calculation.

However, Iris didn't hear that, she couldn't care less about what he said because right now, she was frantically looking for Hanna. She shouted her name and wriggled her body from Lou's embrace, yet the merchant didn't let her go.

Meanwhile, the carriage that they rode earlier had been crushed under the monster's feet, while the horse had runaway, but there was no sight of Hanna or the coachman.

Iris's heart beat so fast, as her mind was thinking of the most horrible thing that could happen to her.

"Hanna!" Iris called her name desperatedly. "Let me go!" She tried to push Lou away from her, but he didn't budge.

"Stop it will you?! There! Your little maid is there!" He pointed his finger at his left side, where Iris could see Hanna was already in his beast form, fighting against seven goblins! Along with another beast, which she assumed it was the coachman.

How could these creatures be here?! It didn't make any sense at all!

"Now, if you have calmed down, can you help me how to deal with that monster?" Lou nodded at the huge monster before his eyes.

Iris followed his line of sight and realized their predicament. That monster had small red eyes that didn't match with his monstrous body. His fist even could fit two grown up beast.

Iris startled, as she clutched onto Lou subconsciously.

"Now, you scared." Lou clicked his tongue, but he didn't let her go, instead, when the monster charged forward, he lifted Iris's body and carried her, while he runaway toward the woods.

Thankfully, because of the size, the monster couldn't run fast enough.

"Do you have any idea where your mate is?" Lou asked. "I don't mind protecting you, but he should deal with that ugly monster!"

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