Chapter 0782

Exchanging a quick glance, the panther and I weaved through the mayhem, our eyes locked on our ultimate target -Mila.

She rose from her throne, her expression twisted into a mask of fury as she witnessed her carefully constructed facade crumbling around her.

"Fools!" she screeched, her shrill voice cutting through the chaos. "You think you can defy me? I am your queen, your ruler, your goddess!"

With a feral roar, the panther leapt towards her, his claws extended. I followed close behind, my jaws snapping, ready to tear into her flesh.

But Mila was faster.

In one fluid motion, she drew a blade from her silken green skirts, the wicked metal glinting in the torchlight. The panther's momentum carried him forward, straight onto the tip of her knife.

A guttural cry escaped his jaws as the blade sank deep into his side, right between his ribs. I skidded to a halt, my ears flattening against my skull as I watched him crumple to the ground, blood pooling around him faster than I thought possible.

blade from the panther's side, using her foot on his now-limp body as leverage. I felt my stomach flip as

a chance to close his eyes, which now stared lifelessly up at

mine then, her yellow, slitted eyes narrowing, "Traitory," he hissed, her

held the knife up... and she licked the panther's green blood from her blade. Something

across her flesh. With a deafening roar, she rose to her full height, her

glory. A few dropped to their knees in

paid them no mind, and merely scooped them up in one of her great

low, a growl rumbling deep in my chest as I prepared to pounce. Not that it would have made any difference, of course; one of

slitted pupils fixed directly on me. As she breathed in, her throat crackled and rumbled like a door with creaky hinges, steam

great tyrant queen was stoking the fires in her throat, and the crowd knew it. I felt bodies slam into me, jostling me and making me lose my

saw a flash of lightning-Luke's magic-and

Let them get out. If no one else,

debris raining down upon the crowd. Screams erupted as bodies scattered, the rebellion losing its momentum in the face of Mila's overwhelming

I refused to back down. With a mighty leap, I launched myself

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