ログインOlivia POVLucy’s warning was very urgent and laced with worry—such as I hadn’t seen before.Something was wrong from the very start, and right now, I needed to get out of Blood Valley. The answers I needed could wait some other time.I tried moving my legs but couldn’t. It seemed like a mountain was tied around my legs, making movement impossible.“I can’t,” I whispered aloud, my hand tightening around the Moon Staff in my hands, the same staff I’d seen wielded with impossible grace in a vision that no longer felt like the past.I summoned every fiber of energy left in me and was finally able to move two feet. A heavy pressure locked onto me, suppressing everything, even the very air that I breathed.I could feel the breath of something ancient.Something far older than any of the enemies I had encountered.The sound of a beating heartbeat echoed in the chamber, spreading all across the Blood Valley.It looked as if my eardrums were going to burst when I heard the sound. My hands fle
Olivia POVMy gaze went over the chamber again as I wanted to engrave every detail into my memory, lest I overlooked something.The chained coffin hovering in midair was still glowing with faint light, and the pressure it emitted was getting stronger, like something was trying to break free from within.“What’s inside the coffin?” I asked, trying to gather more information, even though I could already guess who was inside.“Hahaha.”One of the black-cloaked individuals laughed. His black-stained teeth gave off a ridiculous feeling.“You still haven’t figured it out?” he replied.“I won’t give you what you want,” I said, already reaching for the Moon Stone in my pouch, though some instinct screamed that holding it any closer to this room was exactly the mistake he wanted me to make.“You already have,” he said, and smiled.The second chain snapped and charged at me suddenly.I jumped up immediately, dodging to the left and escaping the attack.Before my legs stood firmly on the ground,
Olivia POVThe battle continued fiercely, with both going hard at each other, but I noticed that the woman was more relaxed and at ease, responding to each attack from the man with the needed counterattack.After a while, the woman looked in my direction, muttering some words that I couldn’t understand, but somehow, the meaning embedded itself in my mind.“Watch closely.”The woman continued muttering some strange words in an ancient language, and then the staff in her hands changed to a sword, which she used to cut her palms, producing twelve droplets of blood, each of a different color.From where I stood, I could feel my bloodline resonating with those twelve droplets as if they came from the same source, like a child longing to return to its mother’s embrace or reunite with its own kin.The might of the blood droplets was fearsome and terrifying as the clouds changed immediately, and thunderbolts roared in the sky. The man’s face changed immediately as panic and horror appeared on
Olivia POV I looked around the chamber, and the whole place felt eerie, wrapped in a darkness that pressed against my skin like something physical. The ceiling disappeared into shadow somewhere far above, swallowing whatever light might have reached it. Hundreds of black candles stood around the chamber, their flames burning without producing any warmth. Their flames weren't normal like the real flames I knew. They were blood red. Almost black. In the center of the chamber stood a circular platform covered in ancient symbols. A giant black coffin was suspended mid-air above it, unmoving, as though gravity itself had agreed to leave it alone. Runic chains etched with strange ancient symbols wrapped around the massive coffin, binding it on every side. Looking closer, I saw that some of the chains had already broken, snapped clean through and hanging loose, leaving only a few still intact — and those few looked strained, trembling faintly as if something inside were testing them. A
Olivia POV The whole place stretched farther than it should have.I couldn’t see its end.The darkness ahead seemed to swallow the weak light coming from behind me, inch by inch, until I could no longer tell whether I was walking forward or simply being pulled.I slowed my steps.My breathing became shallower as I remembered Lucy’s warning.The air was poisoned.That meant whoever had prepared this place expected anyone who entered to become weaker with every passing moment.They wanted me vulnerable.They wanted me helpless.Perhaps they thought the moment I realized what was happening, fear would take over and I would start panicking.They were wrong.I had survived worse.I had survived being hated by the people who were supposed to love me.I had survived being rejected by my mate.I had survived being called useless, weak, and worthless.I had even died once.This?This was just another obstacle. I reached for my Moon Magic instinctively. A faint silver glow gathered around
Olivia POV"You can't go in." Alpha Kingsley held my hand. His rough palm gripped me so tightly that I could feel the burn of his determination.I looked into his eyes and wished I never had. They were filled with worry and dread.Like he feared the very thought of losing something very important to him.*Did he really care about me that much?* I asked myself.I pulled my hand out of his grip."Let me go in instead," he offered."You can trust me to save them.""Only the Lady of the Moon Temple is allowed inside," the man said before anyone could say anything else — a devious smirk on his face."I will go," I spoke suddenly."Good."The black-cloaked guy and the man laughed in triumph, like they had just won a major battle."But…" I cut short their laughter. "I need you to let them go once I go in.""Or…"I let the threat hang in the air."Hahahaha."The man laughed."Deal," he said.Turning to Karl, I whispered, "I will be back. You stick to the plan," I instructed."Okay."I turned







