234: THE BLIND FATE

THE BLIND FATE

Iris had another dream with five swords, but this time, she saw another person in the distance, yet before she could see them clearly, she was woken up when Cane shook her shoulder lightly. 1

Her surrounding was still so dark, it was still night, but they were in the outskirt of the capital city, where there were rarely houses along this street. People here, didn't attend the party in the palace, because they didn't have decent dress and clothes to wear. They were so poor, as if this was the abandoned part of the capital city.

Cane jumped down from the horse before he helped Iris to get down too, he took her hand, as they walked.

But knowing him, it was not sure, whether he did this because he didn't want her to get lost and ran into trouble, or for the sake of himself, because he was worried the black wisp would suddenly appear without him knowing it.

Iris didn't think Cane was someone that would do something unnecessary, thus the latter option looked most likely.

She looked around her, but the hoodie that covered half of her face obstructed her vision, yet when she was about to pull it back slightly, Cane stopped her by placing his hand on her head. She was sure that he said something, but she couldn't hear it.

In the end, the only thing she could see was the ground beneath her and her feet.

"Is he here?" Cane asked Leros, who was standing in front of a rickety house.

"Yes, he is inside with Clad." Leros nodded.

Leros had gone to the capital city first, while Clad joined him after they arrived, because they had a tip this man was here, thus it didn't take long for them to find this person.

"Hm." Cane then entered the rickety house that looked like a harsh wind could blow it walls away, but Will stopped him.

"Will you bring her with you, Alpha?" Will couldn't help, but asked, he and the other had been wondering why Iris was here with them, so did Leros. The spy didn't really like Iris and thought, despite the reason she was Gerald's daughter, her personality really didn't suit to be a luna of the pack, she was too timid and couldn't help Cane with anything. She would be a burden.

"Yes," Cane replied curtly, but he didn't explain further.

If they had their faith on him when they were tortured and he was hopeless to save them, then right now they had their blind faith, albeit Cane didn't say or explain anything. Their main focus was to do a well done job for every task was given.

Will said nothing and with Avid, Trion and Leros, the four of them waited outside of the house, which no long after that, Clad joined them, thus right now, there were only the three of them inside.

Meanwhile, inside the house, sitting on a chair with both of his arms were tied behind his back, was a sorcerer. He glared at Cane and snorted disdainfully.

"This is how you repaid me after what I have done to you!" he roared, annoyed because he was treated so poorly. "If I know you are so ungrateful, I will never agree to help you!"

This time, Iris raised her head and slightly pulled up her hoodie, enough for her to see her surroundings and the old man in front of her, reading what he said.

On the other hand, Cane's attention was on the old man and he was standing slightly in front of Iris, thus he didn't stop her from doing so.

"You ungrateful brat!" the old man cursed him out, as he tried to free himself, but without his hands and magic stone, his magic was useless.

For a magic user, magic stone was akin to a fuel that allowed them to use their power, the more they had it, the better. Therefore, a magic user without magic stone was useless, so did the other way around. Magic stone in the hand of shifter or non magic user was useless.

"I will not resolve to this if you didn't try to run away," Cane said, his tone was so dark. His eyes fixed on the old man, until he averted his gaze because of guilty conscience. "Why did you run away from me?"

"I didn't!" he denied it too fast to sound reliable, but then his gaze wandered toward Iris, as he squinted his eyes. "Who is she?" he wanted to change the topic, but at the same time, he also wondered about the girl behind Cane. "She is not a shifter."

Thanked to Gerald, because he was too ashamed to have a runt as his daughter, he tried to the extreme to isolate her, thus aside from knowing he had a daughter, which was a runt, most of the people rarely saw Iris in person.

Cane stepped in his line of sight to block his gaze, which annoyed the sorcerer, as he glared at him again.

"If you have a magic user with you, why would you need me for?!" he snapped. "Let me go now!"

Magic user. This was not the first time a sorcerer assumed Iris was a magic user. In the auction room, when he got his tattoo to access the black market, the sorcerer there said the same thing. Of course, he didn't miss that little detail, which made Cane started to think to dig deeper into Iris's background.

There was no way shifter parent gave birth to a magic user, it had never happened before and there was no case like that in this realm.

However, there was another urgent matter that he needed to get it done first.

"What did you do to me?" Cane asked him sternly, didn't allow him to change the topic.

"What? You regret it now?! I have told you before about the consequences!" he scoffed derisively. "You are the one, who said it didn't matter whether you turned into a lycan or monster, as long as you can free your people!"

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