Chapter 154

Alpha Toph

My tongue pressed against the uneven ridges of my teeth as I fiddled with the lock of the shadow king’s secret compartment.

I had caught a glimpse of the mammoth beast leaving the small shed, the spot on his neck where the blood moonstone hung bare.

I knew then that Gobar had to have been hiding it here. He never wore it to hunt.

“Come on!” I gritted through clenched teeth, feeling my eyeballs sting as the sweat rolled down from the cliff of my forehead.

Everything had begun to feel weird, it was hard enough to feed without tasting the worms from the inside of my mouth in the blood.

If I could just get my hands on the dark moonstone I could stop the transformation and have SOME chance of killing the shadow king.

Yes! I had to kill him, there was no way in seven hells I would have gone through all the pains to settle for being his eternal stooge!

The numbers I tried to spin on the lock didn't make any sense and it was beginning to get dark. I glanced around quickly, catchin