The Alpha: Claiming His Enemy's Daughter
Chapter 317: THE EXTENT OF HER ABILITY

Chapter 317: THE EXTENT OF HER ABILITY

The stone let out a black wisp, the same wisp that she had seen exuding from Cane’s body. If the black wisp was dark magic, then why did it emanate from the stone when she touched it?

And as if answering the question, Haco squeaked to see that. "You purified the stone! You purified it of dark magic! How can you do that?!"

On the other hand, Cane didn’t expect something like this to happen either. He remembered the dark wisp that appeared after what Aria had done to him. She inflicted him with dark magic and that was how it started.

But then, Iris managed to get rid of the dark wisp only by her touch. Was that what happened? That was how it worked? She purified him?

"How can you purify it of dark magic?!" Haco grabbed Iris’ hand and looked at her closely, as she winced because he hurt her. "How can you do that? It’s impossible..." he mumbled to himself. "Who are you? There is no way a runt can use magic."

Iris was way more confused than the sorcerer, since she didn’t know how to answer the question.

"This didn’t make any sense at all..." Haco muttered to himself.

Cane stepped forward and swatted Haco’s hand away from Iris, her bruises had just healed, he didn’t want to see her wrist swollen again. "What do you mean she purified it?"

Haco was mumbling, talking to himself and then explained how magic of the magic users worked. There were three kinds of magic; normal magic performed by the magic users, it only required the magic stone as the fuel to back up their power; black magic by those magic users, who usually used sacrifices, aside from magic stones to get more powerful effect, and lastly, divine power, which only a Serafim could use, as they were born with it.

That was why what Iris did was unheard of. The dark spells could be neutralized by a sorcerer, if they were on the same level in terms of power, or a Serafim could veto it, but aside from using her divine powers, a ritual was necessary for the Serafim to be able to do that and not just by a single touch!

The dark magic stone that was planted on Cane, they didn’t know whether it was purified or not, since Iris was the one who took it out. They didn’t have a way to confirm it, because they didn’t have a sorcerer in the pack.

As for these dark magic stones, Haco used the death of Prince Vemion to create the dark magic.

"Try it again," Cane said, as he picked one of the stones from the table. He wanted to make sure what happened earlier was not a coincidence.

On the other hand, Haco took great pains to create those dark magic stones as per Cane’s request, but right now, he couldn’t care less about it either, since he wanted to know more about how Iris could do it.

Cane put the dark magic stone on his palm and brought it closer to Iris, so she could take it.

For a moment, Iris looked doubtful, but then she took the stone and the same thing happened. A dark wisp came out of the magic stone and Haco was dumbstruck.

"She really expelled the black magic..."

There was silence that ensued inside the room. On the table, there were eight more magic stones suffused with black magic, while the other two had been purified and couldn’t be used anymore. Finally, Cane broke the silence.

"How will you explain this?" Iris’ ability wouldn’t hinder his plan, he could swing his plan forward with this new finding, but it would be better if he knew more. The unknown could make him make the wrong move.

"Well, I also want to know how." Haco frowned, thinking deeply about the few ancient scripts he had not read for ages, ever since he was kicked out of the Holy Kingdom, but his memories failed him.

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Hanna immediately looked for Will when Aderan told her where he was. Apparently, Will had been spending his time chopping firewood, though they had enough.

He didn’t do much and most of the time, he would stay in the lodge. The Alpha must know something because he didn’t give him many tasks aside from compiling all the information and summarizing it for him whenever he visited, so it would save time for Cane.

Will would spend his time in the woods, shifting to his wolf and only returning when the sun had set, or chopping firewood like what he was doing right now.

"Will?" Hanna called his name and she could see how his body stiffened upon hearing her voice. He didn’t turn around and continued what he was doing, but his movements became sloppy, until he decided to stop and walk away.

Not even once, he glanced or turned around to look at Hanna.

"Did I do something wrong?" Hanna asked, she approached Will, her heart ached so bad to see how he ignored her blatantly like this. "I don’t know what I have done wrong, but at least, can you tell me?"

Will stopped walking and Hanna put a respective distance between them, she didn’t want to crowd him or give him pressure, she only wanted a little bit of explanation.

"You did nothing wrong, Hanna." His eyes could find nothing wrong if it was about her, everything about her was beautiful and right. The fault lay in him. "But, I can’t see you now."

"Why?" Hanna took a step closer. She still remembered how jumpy Will was whenever he was being touched unanticipatedly, thus she didn’t try to reach him. "You can’t see me or you don’t want to see me?"

Will didn’t answer that, instead, he shifted into his beast and rushed into the woods. Hanna couldn’t take it anymore and shifted into her beast and followed him. If he didn’t want to see her, he needed to tell her straightforwardly instead of running away like this.

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Iris pondered about the dark magic stones that Leros took away. The plan was set and it would be in motion in time, but that was not what Iris had in mind.

Just like Haco and Cane, she couldn’t wrap her head around the fact she could purify the curse on the magic stone. It was dark magic after all.

"Are you sure you are a daughter of your parents?" Haco asked with a questioning look.

They had this conversation for hours, until Cane stopped it, because they only ran in circles with lack of information. There was no question that could be answered.

After that, Cane talked with Haco about other things, while Iris looked around this room, which had become the sorcerer’s bedroom.

"Don’t touch that!" Haco said, but Iris couldn’t hear him. Cane immediately took away the little thing in her hand, which looked like a piece of candy.

"What is that?" Iris blinked her eyes, confused, because all of a sudden Cane snatched it away from her.

"That is poison," Haco replied, as he took it away from Cane’s hand, but immediately explained when the Alpha glared at him. "You will be fine as long as you don’t eat it."