386: THEY ARE COMING

THEY ARE COMING

Something from the past or future? Raine fell into contemplation at Aeon's explanation.1

If that was the case, what about the two girls that Raine had seen before? Were they from her future as well?

Questions after questions were roaming around her head, yet she tried to shake them off, right now there was an even more important thing that she should do. Raine didn't have time to think about other than that yet.

While Raine was attending to Raphael and Calleb, Aeon moved to the two Alphas and brought them closer, so they gathered in one small circle with Aeon in the middle.

"Calleb, it is me. Are you okay?" Raine shook the Gamma's body lightly as his eyes were so dull.

"I am… I am… fine…" Calleb stammered, trying to regain his own consciousness as he shook his head vigorously as if he was trying to get rid of the dreadful images flashed in his eyes.

It was same thing with Raphael and the other two Alphas.

Raine literally could hear their ragged breathing.

Yet, when Raine thought everything would be better as they had found the four missing people, something unexpected happened again.

There was a loud noise. The sound was coming from a faraway place, maybe from the floor atop of them.

The first thing that came into Raine's mind was; Serefina. Did the witch fall into a predicament?

That loud noise then intensified until all they could hear the sound of some terrifyingly intense rumblings. The sound was getting louder and louder until it became a deafening roar.

Raine pressed her palms against her ears and before the sound consumed her, she found herself in a pair of arms, and she was whisked away.

When Raine looked back, she was blinded by a flash of light, it was a fireball, which exploded only twenty meters away from her.

Raine was dumbfounded. They were no longer inside the empty room with a strange book laid alone, atop of a podium.

Aeon, or Serefina, had brought them back to the surface, in the yard, in front of the bar house, which had turned into debris now.

Raine watched in horror as the center of the yard was set ablaze. She held the arms of the person who held her, tightly.

Raine scored her surroundings, all the Lycanthropes had shifted into their beast forms while letting out howls, beckoning the other beasts to gather around in pack formation, ready for the next attack.

But then she heard what sounded like whips cutting through the air, the sharp and distinct cracks reverberated throughout the air, churning up dust and smoke as the winds became more intense. And the beasts spread out.

Raine squinted her eyes and scanned the scene before her eyes, it was hard to see as dust and smoke swirled in the air.

When the things went quiet and all the debris had settled down, only then did Raine see Lucifer and Belphegor, flying high above them with hideous smirks on their lips.

Both of them stared down at the yard like predators, looking at their prey, ready to kill.

The beasts snarled and snapped at the devils, daring them to attack while Serefina, who was standing right next to Raine, clenched her jaw and balled her fists.

"We can't do this," she muttered under her breath, only then did Raine spot blood trickling down from her temple, but the witch remained steadfast. "We have to go from here, they are too strong in their land."

It was so rare to hear Serefina suggest for a retreat.

Yet, when Raine raised her head and looked at the sky, it was no longer the darkness of the night sky, it was of the color of something different entirely, or unknown creatures, covering it. Something evil.

"What is that?" Raine whispered, holding her breath as she watched those dark things move closer, blocking the light of all the stars.

"Their legion." Aeon replied, very close to her ears. Raine then realized that she had been in his embrace since the beginning.

Raine tried to free herself from him, but he held her even tighter.

"Witch." He stretched his hand out and waited for Serefina to grab it.

Though she didn't like the way the shadow warrior called her, they didn't have time to hear her complaints.

Thus, just like before, they worked together and everything changed in the matter of a millisecond, before a fireball exploded where all of them had been standing.

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Raine blinked her eyes for a couple of times before they could adjust to the sudden change. She had changed places for three times in less than five minutes.

"Let me go." Raine gently freed herself from Aeon's embrace, she didn't want to offend him, but she wasn't comfortable with their proximity.

Aeon finally let her go as he looked at the girl in his arms move away from him with a sad expression.

"What have you got?" Serefina didn't let Aeon stay in his melancholic state for long as she bothered him immediately. "Those devils will follow us here. You better have good news from your trip down the passageway."

Actually, Serefina and Aeon worked well together, regardless of their bickering that was inevitable every now and then, as both of them used their magic to move from the collapsed bar house right in time.

They could teleport themselves out of there, but Aeon couldn't teleport them right away into the room where the book was placed.

The shadow warrior didn't appreciate the way the witch talked to him as he squinted his eyes dangerously. "The library, huh?"

Aeon noticed that they were standing in the yard, in front of the collapsed library building.

"Mm, nostalgic, isn't it." Serefina crossed her arms in front of her chest as she replied sarcastically.

Right at that time, a security guard came running in their direction with a flashlight in his hand. "Hey! What are you doing there?!?" He shouted angrily which startled Raine.

Yet, before that man could take one more step closer, Serefina had waved her hand and then his body flew a few meters high before he dropped to the ground.

"Serefina! You killed him!?" Raine was shocked.

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