521: THE CONSEQUENCES

THE CONSEQUENCES

Iris was dozing off when Haco came into the study room, she insisted she would be there with Cane and returned to their bedroom together. 

Even though, Sofia was no longer occupied her bedroom, she felt uncomfortable to sleep on the same bed that the other woman had used. More so, because she used to sleep with Cane by her side, thus it felt so weird and empty without him to hold her. 

Therefore, it didn't take long for her to sneak into Cane's bed and slept there, the alpha of course knew when his mate came and snuggled against him. He didn't have any complain and cuddled with her instead. 

After that, it was an unspoken decision that Iris wouldn't use her bedroom, even though the bar had been torn down and she could come and go between the two rooms, but she simply didn't bother to stay in her side. 

There was no need for her to go back and forth and wasted her energy and time when she knew where she wanted to be. 

"What do you want?" Cane asked, he was going to call the day when this sorcerer right before he finished the last report and gave the last order to Oliver. 

"Why I feel like you don't like to see me?" Haco frowned. "We have not yet met for four days now. Nice to see you well, Iris." His voice softened when he saw the luna lifted her head and rubbed her sleepy eyes. 

"Haco," Iris greeted him. 

"Have you done reading the book?" Haco gave her a book for her to learn about various power that a magic user could do, now they had confirmed Iris related to the first Serafim, they needed to tread this matter carefully, because not only they would attract their enemy toward her and put her in danger, but this information could be used to make the people in the Holy Kingdom be their enemy as well, since it would be an insult to say Iris was the Serafim. 

More so, they still needed to dig deeper about this new revelation and also, there was still no news about lady Cyan. They hoped one of the monsters had eaten her alive, so half of their problem would be solved, though it was only a wishful thinking. 

"I have read half of it," Iris replied. Aside from learning medicine from Grace and Ardand, while helping the injured warriors, who were still inside the tent, she also learned more about magic user and the power they held. It was a complicated thing and she realized her knowledge about it only grazed the surface level, though she had read a lot of books about the same topic. 

Haco guided her and she would spend an hour or two everyday with him. 

"Good. Good." Haco nodded in satisfaction, but then his expression became serious when he looked at Cane. "There is something important I need to tell you. I thought, I can keep it for myself, but then I feel like it is not right if you don't know about this."

"What is it?" Cane narrowed his eyes, as Haco sat down on the chair in front of him and Iris. He looked so exhausted and even more fragile. Cane had asked Grace to check on his condition, but the healer could only say his health deteriorated rapidly without knowing the cause of it. "You can't let Zeke extract the lycan out of you. Don't even think about it or let that to happen."

Zeke was Cyan's father. Haco had disclosed this that Zeke was his senior when they were still in the Holy Kingdom, but then, his access of information about him was close to nil, more so, he had left the Holy Kingdom for so long ago. 

He had been debating with himself when he learned how Zeke was trying to extract the lycan out of Cane's body. 

"You can't let that happened?" Haco said seriously, he leaned his body forward and stared into Cane's dark eyes. "Don't."

"Why?" Iris asked, she could sense there was something more behind it. "Why not?"

It didn't mean Cane wanted to let go of the lycan, especially when he realized the power that this cursed creature held could turn the table, so if he had to choose, it would rather he had the lycan than his enemy got a hold of the power of this creature. 

Haco pressed his lips into thin line, as his brows creased deeply. He had thought about what he was going to say, but as it turned out, it was way more difficult than he imagined when he really had to do it. 

"Look." Haco took a deep breath and stared at the two people before his eyes. "You are so wrong, if you think there is no side effect when the lycan was extracted from me. There is and it is lethal."

Cane's brows creased and Iris didn't like the sound of it. They really couldn't take a break, if anything, it felt like they were jumping from one trouble to another, without being able to fix the previous one or even discussed it. 

"Talk clearly, Haco, what do you mean with that?" Iris clenched her fists she observed the old man before her eyes and aside from the extreme sign of fatigue, she found nothing life threatening on him. "Can't you spill everything all at once?" she was anxious and her patient was running low, as her mind raced with all the worst possibilities, while Cane didn't show much of change on his expression. 

"I don't have much time. I only have less than a year now, probably half of it, as I can feel my health is deteriorating quickly. You must have learned about that from Grace and now you can ask the poor healer to stop her attempt to cure me, because there is nothing you can do to help me."

Haco then told them about what the lycan had informed him about how he would end. 

The lycan had resided within him for long, so his life force and his had molded together, therefore, when the lycan was extracted from him, the outcome was fatal for Haco, since the lycan was way stronger than him.

"It will be more fatal for you, alpha, because you have found a way to use the lycan's power as well, the consequences of it will be more deadly for you." 

All this time, Haco didn't really use the lycan's power, since he didn't know how to, but he got a year to live after the creature was being extracted from him, thus in Cane's case, it could be less than that if he kept relying on the lycan's power and used it constantly. 

"Don't you know about this when you gave the lycan to Cane?" Iris stared at Haco, she was not sure how to feel. While, it was fine for Cane to use the lycan's power, as long as the creature resided within him, but there was someone out there, who could perform the magic, where he could separate Cane from the lycan. The thought of it alone terrified Iris. 

Haco scoffed, he looked annoyed. "No. That lycan is very cunning and ungrateful, of course, I will never agree if by doing so, I shorten my lifespan, he must have known about that, so he didn't mention it. I only thought; finally, I can get rid of such nuisance. How naïve I was."

Iris grimaced, she then stared at Cane when she caught the dark wisp that came out of his palm, he had been practicing with it in the past few days and how to control it, now he was in tune with the lycan within him.  1

"Cane, don't do that again!" Iris grabbed his hand in attempt to stop him from practicing with the dark wisp again. "Don't do it again." She became panic and with her touch, the dark wisp disappeared. She was the only one, who could do that, even though he tried, but he wouldn't be able to produce the dark wisp once Iris held onto him. 

"Iris, calm down," Cane said patiently, he cupped her face, as her eyes started tearing up. She looked so upset. 

Cane must have missed this part of information, where Lu told Haco about the side effect of his situation. 

"I don't want to calm down, I want you to promise me not to practice with the dark wisp again!" Iris was a little bit emotional now. "Cane, promise me…"

One year? Haco had less than one year and if the same thing happened to Cane, he would even have shorter time, because he used the power that he supposed not to have. 

Iris started to cry when she knew what the answer Cane would give her. "Cane, no…" she whimpered. He would continue with his plan to practice with the dark wisp that was the lycan and explored more about the power Lu held. 

"Iris, you missed the point here," Cane said gently and patiently. "It will only happen if the lycan is being extracted from me. Nothing will happen as long as the lycan stays within me."

"There is this man out there, who can do that." Iris was adamant. 

"That's the more reason I need to use the lycan's power to protect myself. Do you think I will stand a chance to have a direct battle with the dark sorcerer without the lycan's power like what happened in the mountain?"

Iris was dumbstruck, she was too panic to think in that way. 

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