236: THE FIRST SHIFTER

THE FIRST SHIFTER

Cane really didn't have any patience for him and he clearly didn't want to waste his time. They needed to go back to the palace before there was someone realized they had gone missing. 1

"Talk," Cane said impatiently. His eyes were so cold.

The sorcerer grumbled, but when he was about to talk, his eyes caught a sight of Iris and he looked very shocked. "What is that?!" he pointed his finger at her.

Leros and Clad had released the rope that tied him on the chair and without his magic, he was only a mere old man, one of them was enough to keep him in check.

Cane was alarmed, as he turned around and saw the lizard on Iris's shoulder, she noticed it too late and tried to hide the little creature. Cane frowned, he had told her to hide the lizard, but she actually brought it with her? Unfortunately, he didn't notice it earlier.

"What is that? What is that? Show me!" the sorcerer chanted, as he moved forward to approach Iris, seeing how he was so eager to come closer, she backed away instinctively. "That's salamander, right?! I am sure that's a salamander! How she can get it?!"

Salamander.

The sorcerer in the Derelict shop in the black market also said the lizard was salamander, one of the creatures that related to the Serafim. Not many people knew about this.

"I know that's salamander! Give me! Let me take a look!" the sorcerer said ecstatically, whether he pretended it to change the main topic or he really was so excited, Cane couldn't tell, because his eyes shone brightly with genuine interest.

"Give it to him," Cane said to Iris. It was only the tip of her nose and her lips that could be seen, but she must peek through her hoodie to read what he said, because a second later, she reluctantly gave the lizard to the old sorcerer.

The creature was a little bit bigger now and the color of its skin was no longer transparent, but it was dark red, almost like Iris's auburn hair.

The sorcerer gasped when Iris placed the lizard on his palms, but the lizard didn't seem to like him, as it breathed fire and burned his hand, forced him to drop the creature.

"Argh!" the sorcerer took a few steps back, afraid that this little lizard would burn him again, but instead, the little creature simply climbed on Iris's cloak and hid inside. "How can you get Serafim's creature?! This is impossible! Who are you?!"

That was the question that Cane wanted to know too, since he was not the first sorcerer that had pointed this out, the alpha became even more suspicious and alert by Iris's origin.

"No way… this is impossible… but, how can you explain this…?" he muttered to himself, as if he was in his own world, talking to himself.

"Talk." Cane kicked his leg to get his attention back to the reality, because he had been muttering something that he couldn't decipher.

"Ugh! You are so bratty! You are so ungrateful!"

"You have called me that. Now, talk."

The sorcerer rubbed his aching shin and then sat down to the chair, where he was being tied up a moment before. His old bones couldn't stand for long.

The sorcerer glanced at Iris and then beckoned her with his finger. "Since you bring her here, why don't let her hear this too? Come here, little girl."

"She has nothing to do with this," Cane said, but the sorcerer shook his head.

"This can be related in a way, so just listen."

Cane was asking about the lycan and the dark magic that he put on him, about this sorcerer intention, thus it was questionable to hear how his business could be related to Iris.

But the fact that Iris knew about him even more than those people that were very close to him, let Cane decided to get it down quickly and call her over to stand by his side. Her face and hair were still covered under the hoodie, but she could see what the sorcerer said.

"Do you know the story of Lu?" He asked in languid tone, as if he was a grandpa, who was telling a story to his grandchildren. "No? I guess so." He nodded to himself, though none of them answered him. "This story is not famous in this continent, even in the Andel, there are a little people knows about the story."

"Get to the point."

"GOOSH! You are so impatient!" he grumbled, but then relented after seeing how Cane glared dangerously at him. "Lu is the first shifter, he was a lycan, a cursed shifter, who died because the people in the Andel burned him alive, his soul wandered for hundred of years and I happened to stumble upon his shrine in the Holy Kingdom and since then the cursed soul possessed me! I was kicked out from the Holy Kingdom because of that lycan!" he scoffed.

"You were kicked out from the Holy Kingdom?" Cane didn't know about this information. Meanwhile, Iris was getting interesting with this old man's story.

"Oh yeah! I was one of the sorcerers in the Holy Kingdom before I was kicked out fifty years ago!" Which meant, the lycan soul had been following him for over five decades and how miserable he was to carry such cursed soul. "But then, when I met you when you were a slave, the soul took interest in you." He snickered. "So, I gave it to you." He shrugged his shoulder nonchalantly. "If that cursed, troublesome soul wanted to change its master, do you think I will hold it back?"

"You used me as the new vessel for the cursed soul." Cane narrowed his eyes.

"Don't be so naïve. I used you, yes, but you used that cursed soul to get your people free and get your revenge, more so, I warned you and you agreed with it."

Cane's eyes darkened, he couldn't deny that fact. "So, how this related to her?"

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