The Alpha's Temptation

Chapter 84 [Bonus Chapter] Destroyed And Extracted

Glenn was on the outside. He had made it out of the main door. He had been there only for a moment when he heard Tania scream. He rushed in and witnessed Eltanin on the ground with Tania knelt beside him.

"Get up!" Tania screamed as she shook Eltanin, but he was still lying motionless. She pressed her ear to his heart.

Glenn came near Eltanin in his wolf form. Glenn's wolf was a gray colored beast who was nearly as tall as Tania and had a wide back. He was aghast seeing Eltanin's condition.

His face was as white as that of a ghost and he had a deep gash on his thigh. There were multiple wounds on his body from which blood flowed to the cracked door in the form of rivulets. And wherever the blood pooled, he saw a little green sapling sprouting up. It was as if the temple was thirsty for his blood. His fur bristled. The whole place was now reeking with rot and decay as if someone had unleashed it. He noticed that the ball of crimson mist wasn't there anymore.

However, the moment he turned his face to the right, he saw a small crimson ball hurtling towards them from the top of the stairs. He let out a growl and Tania was alerted. She stared at it in disbelief. "Not again!" she rasped.

The mist began to come down as if desperate to combine with her.

Tania again felt entranced. The attraction to become one with evil was clouding her senses.

'Run Tania. Leave me.' His words echoed in her mind. He wanted to save her with his life. She didn't want to die either and suddenly she realized that she loved this man to the point that she would give her life for him. The will to be with him, the thought of having one more chance with him, brought about emotions that acted as a catalyst to her gift. She refused to die like this.

She got up when the crimson fury was only a few meters away. Glenn growled and tried to warn it but the mist was hardly even bothered about his presence. It rolled towards Tania, screaming and moaning as if thousands of people were crying with agony.

"Not again!" Tania bellowed at the mist. And as she said that honey-colored magic tendrils flowed out of her mouth. She used the last bit of strength left in her body. "You will stay back!" she screamed and the tendrils curled around her hands. She flung her hands at the crimson mist. As soon as the tendrils met the mist, she felt a shocked stillness. The mist stopped screaming, as if frozen in time. Seeing the mist's reaction, she used the last kernel of her power with rage and directed it towards the red ball of miasma. The screaming reduced to a keening and she could feel the flutter of whatever evil existed in it. The tendrils covered it all over and squeezed the mist to a level that it blasted with a loud boom.

Panting for breath, she sank to the floor. The yellow tendrils faded. She knelt beside Eltanin and pressed her ears against his heart. It was beating faintly. She was elated. "Elty," she said softly. "Please stay with me." Her essence was still flowing out in soft ripples around her body. She placed her hand over his heart and goaded her essence to mingle with his. She closed her eyes chanting one last spell before her mind became addled. She waited, waited, and waited for the spell to work.

A muscle feathered beneath her hand. She thought she was imagining when all of a sudden, his heartbeat thundered beneath her hand. She gasped and found herself staring in the raven black eyes of Eltanin. "Tania!" he rasped.

She was so elated that she shrieked with joy and hugged Eltanin tightly. "Ah!" he winced and then draped his arm over her. _{ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀ​ꪶ​}

Glenn had no time to ponder over what happened. He did what he thought was the best. He nudged Tania with his snout. When she looked at him with cheeks stained with tears and swollen lips, he nudged her again as if trying to communicate something. Then he went near Eltanin and sat down. He looked at Tania and she understood what to do next.

After a lot of efforts, in which Tania's pain increased, Eltanin managed to roll on Glenn's back. He stood up, keeping Eltanin balanced on his back.

Carefully, he traipsed out of the temple's main door. As soon as they were out, Eltanin got down. The darkness around them was ominous. Shadows swayed and slithered across the ruins as the moon played hide and seek with the dense clouds overhead.

Wind was waiting for his owner just a few meters away from the walls of the ruins along with his friend, the brown equine.

Tania touched Eltanin's face that was pale and lifeless in the uncanny moonlight. Her body was so weak that moving was painful. Breathing was agonizing because she suspected that a rib or two were broken when Eltanin leapt with her to escape the mist and she crashed on the floor with his weight upon her.

Despite all that, she chanted a spell. When she blew the spell out of her palm, three yellow orbs of light appeared in front of them. Each yellow orb traveled through the air and hovered around them.

Eltanin sat on Wind and when Tania wanted to mount it, Glenn stopped her. He nudged her to mount him and she understood why he was doing that. Eltanin was too injured and so was she. They had an option in which Glenn could easily carry her back to the palace and Wind would carry back Eltanin.

Even though Eltanin growled a protest, at the back of his mind he knew that Glenn was right. With a chuckle, Tania kissed Eltanin's palm, stashed Yunabi arcana in his saddlebag and she walked to Glenn. He sat down for her to mount him. As soon as she sat on him, he took off. Soon he was running at a high speed.

They followed the orbs in front of them which spread soft light, illuminating just enough area to keep them moving.

They traveled through the night. Images of the crimson mist, which was shrieking furiously, made her shudder all the while. She was sure that the skeletons that were inside the temple were victims of that mist. They must have died when it screamed and that was why some skeletons still had their hands over their skulls.

It started snowing and all she hoped was that it didn't convert into a blizzard. She pulled the cloak around herself tightly. Her heartbeat was becoming slower. She could feel coldness flowing in her blood. Next, she closed her eyes as darkness claimed her.

When Tania opened her eyes next, she felt caged in something that was akin to a forge with a woodsy and male musk scent surrounding her senses. Eltanin. She took a deep breath in and snuggled closer to him.

"Oh, thank fuck!" she heard his voice, smiled and then went off to sleep again, feeling relaxed.