A Mate For The Last Lycan
Chapter 168: ANOTHER RITUAL FOR ZURI

Chapter 168: ANOTHER RITUAL FOR ZURI

Rose was playing her role really well with the rumor that she had spread about Zuri, putting her in a bad light and also swayed public opinion about Rhett.

Public loved to have Rhett as their alpha, but they started to question him. Not only his father, but also his brother and now his sister that got involved with Great Lunar Kingdom, this fact alone made them questioned his loyalty.

They didn’t want their pack was dragged along the mud of conspiracy and coup, they didn’t want to get into a battle that they didn’t agree on.

It took such short time when the small rumor became the real trouble.

Princess Rose played savior with the people in the River Creek pack, she helped the distribution of the supplies and this made Gayle cringed.

"Damn, Zuri should have been more active like this..." Gayle murmured to himself, feeling annoyed because Rose acted as if the supplies came from her, or at least, from the royal. She took advantage of the absent of Khaos and Rhett. "Such a wicked woman," the gamma scowled.

Khaos’s warriors were still confused about the real reason why Gayle became the gamma and why Caiden suddenly demoted, but they didn’t dare to ask further. They only assumed, Caiden had done something really bad that incurred the alpha’s wrath.

Gayle and the rest of the warriors caught a sight of the king from the distance, he walked straight to them and the gamma hoped he would just walk away, but instead, he stopped in front of him and asked about Khaos’s whereabouts.

"The alpha is looking for a way to get more supplies until we can get delivery from another continent." It was a lie, but there was no way Gayle would tell the truth.

"Looking for more supplies..." Dacre repeated the word, but there was a hidden meaning behind it, which gave an idea to the people that Khaos was looking for Zuri instead.

The alpha’s family had been a sensitive topic for them and Dacre made sure to establish the image that they were a family of a traitor.

Meanwhile, Zuri was in a great pain. The ritual had not yet started, but she felt the backlash of the other curses that had been inflicted on her.

Her body was so hot, she felt like her skin melted. It was so painful, her blood was boiling and every time she was breathing, she felt like she sucked on ashes. Her lungs were burning.

She screamed until she couldn’t recognize her voice anymore.

"Should we continue?" Elijah asked the mysterious man that he met frequently inside the chapel.

He was wearing the hoodie of his cloak over his head, hiding his face, but all the magic users there lowered their head, they showed their utmost respect on him, more than they showed it to the alpha.

In front of them, thrashing her body on the slab was Zuri, she was screaming, cursing, kicking and doing anything that she could to free herself from the chain that restrained her.

Blood oozed out from her the wound on her wrist and ankles, also around her torso and chest.

"Do you think she can survive this?" The man was a shifter, Elijah would have a better grip on this current situation with Zuri, since he would be the one, who performed the curse.

"She will." The answer was very curt.

Elijah was sitting on a wheelchair, because Glenda couldn’t save his legs. The alpha crippled him because he wanted to fasten the progress of the beauty blood.

Even after all he had done and how many magic users that had died during the battle with the royal warriors and also when Zuri lost her control and killed almost all the magic users that helped with the ritual, Elijah still could feel Khaos’s distrust.

Rhett was too blind with his faith on the lycan, but Elijah could feel it.

"She will live until the beauty blood is completed. We can draw her blood. But, I am not sure with her survival after that. She could die."

"But, the beauty blood will be completed before she died, right?"

"Or maybe she will not die." Elijah tilted his head, he watched the strength that Zuri exerted, despite her skin and bones body, she looked like a corpse right now. "She may strong enough to survive, but I am not sure with her soul. She may lose herself."

"But, we can get the beauty blood." He emphasized this, because this was all that matter for him.

"Yes." Elijah was sure about that. Rhett was right about Zuri, she was the perfect Shell for beauty blood. "Yes, the beauty blood will be completed."

"I trust your judgment," the man said, he then took a step back, letting the other magic users to fall into their position. "You can do it now."

That was the clue for Elijah to do his work. He was going to complete the beauty blood tonight and the lycan would thank him once his mind was cleared from his attachment toward this woman.

Because Khaos only destroyed his legs, he still could use his hands to perform his magic and even though the number of the magic users, who were willing to go against the alpha was not many, which meant it would prolong the ritual, it didn’t matter, they were determined to complete the beauty blood.

Before, it required fifteen magic users, but right now, there were only seven of them, including Elijah, which later would put Zuri in a very long agony before they were done with her.

"Begin," Elijah said and in his command, all of the magic users that gathered around the slab raised their hands and started chanting an ancient language, inflicting the curse on Zuri.

She cried even harder and screamed even louder, as she cussed them out, she swore that she would kill them one by one, skinned them alive and drank their blood if she got her hands on them.