Chapter 191 The Moonlight Lily

“Today

is the sixth,” Cerina said. “The sixth of Wheat Month by the ancient calendar.”

My breath stuck in my throat, and I braced myself as tears rushed up my eyes.

“We have two days.”

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Hanging against the cliff, I kept telling myself not to look down, to focus on going up. We were not far from the top. I could do this.

“I don’t understand.” Soren’s voice echoed from below me as he followed me up the cliff, finding holes for his hands and feet. “Why does the Moonshine Lotus have to make it impossible for people to get to it?”

“Moonlight Lily.” Georgia corrected him. “I know you lost to Behar, but did you also lose your mind?”

“Hey, Georgia, I didn’t lose to—”Soren pulled himself up, and when he finally stepped on a rock and could take a breather, he continued, “—Behar, okay? I wounded him severely. See, at least I am able to come on this trip. I bet Behar still can’t get out of bed.”

Georgia smirked, “You’re able to move around because of Rosalie’s blood.”

As soon as she got to the top of the mountain, she offered me her hand. I took her help and finished my last few steps.

“Nice job, Rosalie,” she said, embracing me.

“Thank you,” I told her, but I was so tired that I struggled to catch my breath and really wanted a drink of water.

I couldn’t imagine how the rest of the Drogomor people still had the energy to carry on a casual conversation during this kind of endeavor.

I heard Georgia continue to shout down to Soren. “You were pretty messed up to be honest. Speaking of, why did you come if all you want to do is to complain?”

“Because that jack*ss is also my brother!” Soren gritted his teeth, and with one final pull, he was up on the flat ground too.

In the past day and a half, we had gone through the putrid and disgusting swamp, the forest that was covered by sharp thorns that were almost impossible to get through, and the sheer cliff. Based on the map, we were getting close. Hopefully, this was the last crazy

obstacle.

After finding out about the Moonlight Lily’s next blooming time, I left the palace with a small group to pick the flower. Talon, Georgia, Soren, Jace, and another twenty elites from both Drogomor and Winter Forest pack joined me.

of bringing a larger team, because while the

previous battle, it was still likely that they could attack, and we needed to

We couldn’t let them know what had happened. Therefore, we needed to avoid drawing any unnecessary attention to our

Finally we reached an open field at the

landscape was barren, save for large fields of moonlight stone, glowing white in the bright

their brown trunks twisted, their green branches like crooked fingers stretching out into the open space around them, but there wasn’t much color, and nothing stood out as remarkable

for one dark green steam

but I recognized the plant immediately. It

had about half an hour before midnight of the eighth day of the Wheat Month, when the flower would

to rush back to the palace. The good thing was that

sudden, Georgia pointed to

the sky above us began to darken as the moon took on a

a lunar

size, and the moon seemed to turn to blood

as the giant orb hung there the same shade of crimson as the liquid

slowly replaced by the splendid scarlet. When

jarred my head to look toward the Moonlight Lily. The

possible, I grabbed the knife from my pocket and slashed my arm. As my blood dripped into the center of the petals, I cut cleanly through the stem of the flower in its mesmerizing blue

had mingled with the blue of the flower, and it was clear to me that this was exactly what I’d needed

did it!”

in

thank the Goddess!” I told him. “Now, let’s

I had for the flower. I dripped some

from relieved to solemn. “Wolves

murmured, “Who the f*ck

the night. “Well, well, if it isn’t the little queen who led us right to where we need to go. And it was

Madalynn!

surprised to see me?”

at her but didn’t speak. How

stupid! Without Ethan, you’re just a piece of sh*t! Now, hand over the flower, and I

and she knew about the purpose of our trip! Someone… someone betrayed

was to figure out a way to return to the

move. I realized that they had at least three times more men than our meager twenty member team, and we didn’t know whether they had reinforcements

be fed to him to help him

not in

good warriors with me, and I knew Talon and Georgia would do whatever it took to make sure that I was able to get the flower back to Ethan. So if we could figure out a way for Madalynn’s forces to be kept occupied while the flower was smuggled back to Ethan, maybe this would

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