238: WHAT DO YOU THINK I AM HERE FOR?

WHAT DO YOU THINK I AM HERE FOR?

Cane left the sorcerer to Leros and Clad, as they would stay in the nearby town, until their time to return to the Howling Wolf pack, while he returned to the palace with the other three warriors. Iris was very silent during this journey back and he couldn't tell what was in her mind after learning such information. 2

Meanwhile, the sorcerer was still trying to fight him back, though Cane knew that his offer was the best option for him, but he was still haughty to keep a shred of dignity that was left for him.

He was practically a beggar when Leros and Clad found him in the outskirt of the capital city.

The sun was almost up right now and the sky gradually brightened up in the east, but when they were halfway back to the palace, there was a hawk that circled above them. It was a secret missive.

Cane pulled the rein abruptly and raised his hand, in which the hawk flew down and landed on his arm. "Take this." Cane handed the rein to Iris unexpectedly, which made her panic a little, as she held it stiffly.

The alpha opened the secret missive and let the hawk flew away. He read it and his eyes darkened when he saw what was inside.

"What is it?" Will asked, concern in his tone because Cane's reaction indicated that the missive was not a good news. "Something happened?"

"There is a second attack of monster in the palace?"

"Second attack?!" Avid and Trion were flabbergasted to hear that. A monster inside the palace was already a shocking news, but now there was the second attack?

And this time, with the commoner inside the palace, how could the king hide it? King Aeon had killed dozen of his guards that witnessed the attack to minimize the chance of the words to get out, but with thousand of people there, there was no way he could cover it up.

The only thing that he could do now was to do a damage control.

Without saying anything anymore, Cane took the rein from Iris's hand and then galloped, this time faster. They needed to reach the palace before the king sent someone to summon him and question his absent.

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The palace looked catastrophe when they arrived, many people died and the other would cry over the dead bodies of their family or people that they knew.

While on the other side, there were piles of dead bodies of the monsters.

They used the same gate when they went out, but this time, they didn't sneak into their bedroom, but went straight to the king palace. After all, this situation was too chaotic to keep tab on Cane's movement.

Especially when the second wave of monster looked even more horrendous than the last one. It almost felt like the north had been destroyed and the monster there flew here instead.

However, that couldn't possibly happen, because the news of it would reach the king first instead of the monster. So, what actually happened here?

Once they were inside the palace's wall, Cane pulled down Iris's hoodie and told her to take it off, because it would be suspicious if she wore something like this here.

"This is… disaster…" Avid muttered under his breath and from the look of it, the battle had not yet done, since in the distance they still could hear vicious growl and a few extremely large monsters from behind the dense, tall trees.

"Look for the other," Cane commanded. His expression looked so grim.

He didn't order them to join the battle, since he didn't want to put them at risk. This was the palace after all, there were countless of royal warriors, who would have fought those monsters already and what Cane wanted was to make sure his men were alright.

Meanwhile, he took Iris toward the other side of the king palace's building. For now, this palace was the safest place, since the king was here, the protection must be so tight.

"Cane, what about Ethan? Don't you need to check on him?"

The battle was still happening and the worst part was in the south palace, where Ethan was being locked inside one of the rooms.

However, before Cane could answer her, Redmond rushed toward them in his beast form and shifted into his human once he was in front of Iris.

"Where have you been!? I have been looking for you everywhere?!" Redmond was panting heavily, concern in his eyes. He looked almost mad now.

The first thing that he did when he heard there was another monster attack was to find her, but she was nowhere to be found! The only thing that reassured him was the fact that Cane was with her, since the alpha also had disappeared. He couldn't care less about the monsters, as he had been roaming around to find her.

Redmond didn't have any idea about the fact that she had been out of the palace.

"Stay with her and take her to the main hall, the royal family must be there." Cane gave an order to Redmond.

In an emergency situation, all the royal family would gather in the main hall, because from there, there was a secret passage that would lead them to the bunker.

"Of course! What do you think I am here for?!" Redmond was slightly offended. He looked for her for hours to do that after all.

Cane didn't heed his sarcastic comment, but there would be a day that Redmond would learn how to hold back his tongue when he talked with the alpha.

Meanwhile, Redmond brought Iris into the main hall, yet before they could reach there, she stopped running and then looked at him.

"Where is Hanna?" If Redmond was looking for her, she was sure Hanna did the same thing.

"Is it time to worry about her? She is just a maid!" Redmond was anxious to get her to the safe place, thus his words were harsh.

"She is not only a maid for me!" Iris snapped at him, she was mad.

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