343: PRECIOUS POSSESSION

PRECIOUS POSSESSION

The guard, who came to inform they found something in the underground room, came to give the report to Koda, because alpha Dristan called him over.

However, because things had escalated to this point and because this investigation was under Cane's responsibility, thus it was only right for him to come as well. 

The problem with lady Cyan could wait, after all, the lady had confirmed it herself the ring indeed belonged to princess Osana and the head of royal sorcerer had said it suffused with black magic. 

Black magic and curses were not something you would see every day, thus if you found it, you would be able to draw the connection between things and with the personality like Alan, he was most likely tried something he shouldn't, broke yet another rules. 

"Can I go?" Iris asked Cane, because she didn't want to be left behind with lady Cyan, she felt uncomfortable with her, as if she was going to do something bad, probably it was only her feeling, but she didn't like this lady, though she didn't do anything to her. 

Cane didn't reply, but he took her hand and led her out of the room, as he ordered three royal warriors to thoroughly check inside the room with Redmond as the person in charge. 

Redmond groaned and gave the alpha a look, but he said nothing and started to do his task, while lady Cyan stood in her place, stared at Cane and Iris's retreating back. Koda had gone first with the royal guard, who informed them. 

"What is your name?" lady Cyan asked Redmond. 

"Redmond, my lady," he replied politely. 

"Are you from the Howling Wolf pack?"

Redmond shook his head. "I am from Blue Moon pack, my lady."

Lady Cyan didn't ask another question again and walked out of the room, leaving them to do their job. She had made a mistake by not seeing it coming. If alpha Cane had prepared with his scheme to trick Alan into his downfall, there was nothing she could do to prevent it, she had already lost one step to him and now what she needed to do was to prepare for the counterattack. 

It didn't go unnoticed by her the way Redmond looked dissatisfied with Cane. 

Meanwhile, in the underground area, where you should use this place as a shelter in case of an attack, the crown prince actually turned this area into a hellish place that one could only find in their darkest nightmare. 

Cane stopped walking and tapped Iris's hand that clutched onto him. "Stay here," he said. He knew it wouldn't be good, but he didn't expect it would be this gruesome. 

They had not yet stepped inside, but as a shifter, he already could smell the acrid smell of blood and many other unpleasant things. 

Cane had not yet seen it, but he grimly familiar with this. It was no different from the dungeon he had lived for decade, a place where it could suck out all of the hope from your mind and left you with nothing, but affliction and agony. 

"I- I can handle it…"

"Stay here."

Cane's voice was so firm, it was not so often for him to talk so sternly like this with her, leaving no space for negotiation. Cane then pried her hand away from him and walked inside. 

It was only a short corridor, where Iris could see flickers of light from inside that reflected on the wall. She would be able to see what was happening in there, if she took a few steps closer and poked her head. 

However, Cane's warning made her stay in her place, but it was not for long, because her curiosity got the better of her and she decided to take a look. She would only take a peek. 

And with many royal warriors walked in and out from there, she didn't think what she would see later was something she couldn't handle. 

Yet, she was so wrong about it, because once she saw what was happening, her stomach churned and she couldn't fight the urge to vomit. 

Iris immediately rushed to the other corner and emptied her stomach, her body was trembling and her mind played the same scene she had seen over and over again. 

Inside that room, Iris saw a few cages, where inside was women, men and children, each of them got their own cage. They were so skinny, as if they had not yet been fed for days, if it was not weeks and all of them naked. 

However, what made Iris couldn't hold it back was what she saw at the other side of that huge room. There, she watched bodies parts strewn on the dirty floor. 

There was one man with six arms, which Iris believed those additional arms were stitched to his body, while the other man had their legs on the place of their arms. 

And there were so many more…

Iris couldn't bear to see more. She didn't know there was someone so cruel and brutal to do that to other creatures. 

What about the people inside the cages? Were they witnessing what happened to those poor soul? Were they thinking it would be their fate? Were they thinking it would be them next?1

Iris couldn't even start to think if she were in their position. 

Her legs gave out and she almost knelt down and soiled her dress if it was not for someone held her body by putting their hand firmly on her waist. 

Iris immediately turned her head and saw Cane. There was a crease between his brows to see her condition right now, yet he said nothing, he must have known the reason why she was like this, after all this was why he didn't allow her to come.

Cane helped his mate to rinse her mouth, after he asked a warrior to bring some water. 

"Let's get out of here." Cane supported her body, but Iris was too shaken up to walk straight, thus he carried her in his arms. Her body was trembling, as she sobbed silently against his shoulder with her arms wrapped around his neck tightly. 

When Cane took her out of the underground, Iris saw him. 

The warriors started to take out the people inside the cage and the first person, who was being taken out was a little boy, his body was so small, but Iris immediately recognized him because of his white hair, because she had seen him before in the black market. 

Diamond white tiger. 

That little boy was the last shifter in his kind, in which his tears could turn into diamond. 

That diamond white tiger was being carried by one of the warriors from the Red Claw pack, while alpha Dristan was fuming mad when he found his treasure was in the underground of the crown prince palace. 

He lost this Diamond white tiger almost a year ago because someone stole it and had been exerted their effort to find it. 

"Damn that stupid crown prince! He is the worst thief!" alpha Dristan's face turned red. "Call healer! This creature is almost died!" he barked an order. The diamond white tiger was his precious possession!

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