The Lycan King's Fate Calling

Rufus' POV:

After putting Beryl to sleep, I left her room and went downstairs. I swept my eyes around the living room, but didn't spot the she-wolf I was seeking.

"Who are you looking for? Crystal left." My mother was sitting at the table and leisurely sipping her coffee.

"I'm stepping out for a while." After saying that, I quickly marched out of the lycan king's palace.

My mind flashed back to seeing Crystal sneaking around the forbidden forest today, and I had no clue about what she was doing there. So I would have to go to the forest again.

the City Hall and then the Royal Military School, but

we going the wrong way? This path leads to the forbidden

our destination. I need to confirm something,"

forbidden forest. I quickened my steps and reached the entrance. The sun had already set. Except for a few lamps

the forbidden forest. A faint stench of death came from afar, pulling me into the forest. My spirits lifted

into the forbidden forest, wild animals roamed it, and they were usually noisy especially at night. But this part of the forest was eerily quiet and weird. All living creatures seemed to deliberately avoid this place. Even the birds who fluttered around the forest had disappeared, as if some terrible thing here made them

and the stench of death I'd followed

It seemed that someone had cleaned this place a little while ago and covered it with dirt. Although the perpetrators had tried to conceal something, the color of the soil at the edge of the clearing was deeper than the soil in the rest of the forest. The exposed soil

evil aura. I frowned and commented, "I'd heard that an ominous place existed in the forest. I can finally see it, but I never expected it to be so

"It must be true. I heard that Queen Mother Laura