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 Royal Military School, but I kept walking

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

our destination. I need

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

of death came from afar, pulling me into the forest. My spirits lifted and I focused on finding its source. After a long hike, we finally came upon a clearing

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 wary of approaching, heightening the sense of death one felt

forward, and the

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 was wet and

commented, "I'd heard that an ominous place

the fear clearly visible on his face, and said, "It must be true. I heard that Queen Mother Laura had killed Noreen and buried her bones in the forest. Perhaps this is the burial spot. We have accidentally stumbled upon it