Claimed a human?

"Ah. Wait, hear me out," Moon managed to voice out at last.

"Can't," Leo simply brushed off his request. His aching length was already pressing on Moon. Moon could hear the pain and agony in his voice.

He didn't know what had gotten into him, but looking at the man's feverish eyes, contorted face, and the way he bit his own lips hard enough to bleed, Moon relented.

In that spur of the moment, a single decision led his life to an unchangeable destination.

Leo claimed him entirely.

His knot sent a wave of pleasure into Moon with an unmistakable power he had tried to gather for eighteen years without any success.

Moon widened his eyes in shock. Surprise was the weakest word to describe his feelings. He looked at the bright Moon and hugged Leo's neck.

Their union made his long-dormant magic core wake up and greedily absorb everything.

His neck throbbed with something unknown.

He was not a wolf; he shouldn't have a scent gland that could be marked, yet Leo's canine reached a spot that sent him wave after wave of satisfaction, a security he needed the most.

He hummed in Leo's arms, letting his guard down.

Looking at the wolf men surrounding him, he squinted his eyes. His lip curved up as he traced his finger over Nox's abs, who was on his left side.

"What are you thinking?" Axe grabbed his chin, pulling him to his side.

He shoved Leo to the side with a rough push.

"Move." His voice dripped with hostility.

"How long do you plan on staying inside him?"

With Leo pushed out of the way, Axe placed himself between Moon's legs, pressing down inch by inch.

Moon didn't resist; instead, he swayed his hips to adapt to Axe. He heard a collective groan, with Leo's dissatisfied growl.

Leo was seething with rage. He didn't get this treatment; he had to force his way in to mark his territory when his brother was already invading his place.

Clenching his fist, he endured.

He knew very well his brother's worry and irritation.

He knew better than anyone how painful it was tonight when they were in the awakening ceremony.

He knew this mating was not all about pleasure but to find a lifeline, to keep their reason.

Today, on the full moon awakening ceremony, everyone shifted but them- the five sons of the Alpha's 3rd Mistress.

Their position was already disadvantaged.

After tonight, news would be all over the pack, five Brothers, LUNAR- a matched name his delusive mother found for them, could not even shift.

They failed to awaken their wolf in ceremony under the full moon, becoming a laughingstock.

They were stripped of their Alpha Heir status on the spot and demoted to Omega.

Even their childhood sweethearts' promises became shattered glass at that moment, and all the people crawling for favor turned their backs.

His mother, a mistress with no power, could not tolerate the pain; she couldn't see her son's ruined future, their demise.

She fainted on the spot and was dragged back with them.

His father didn't give them a second glance.

What was even worse was that they couldn't shift, but they couldn't get back into human form either.

They were stuck between human and wolf, feeling unimaginable pain, their bodies burning, and their bones cracking inside hundreds of times.

With only wolf ears, claws, tails, and torn clothes, they stood there like a clown.

When the mating ceremony started afterward, He(Leo) and his brothers were banished to the backyard to fend for themselves.

They howled in pain and threw a rampage in the backyard pool under the moonlight.

Just when their consciousness was completely engulfed by their animal instinct, their body was growing unusually restless, they were tearing their own flesh; A sweet, crispy scent mixed with jasmine drifted to them, encircled them in a way they could never thought.

A scent that instantly stopped their scratching claws. 

So he stopped moving, his ears twitched a few times to hear every breath.

His mind went blank for a second before he dived into the pool, pulling out a strange man.

The man's face was so beautiful that it could rival any Luna they had ever seen. His long, black, disheveled hair tickled his primal needs.

The hidden, dormant wolf that was trapped gnawed at him.

In that moment, only one sentence remained in his world: His Mate!

No! Not only his, but all of their Mate!

He could sense all of their blood was responding, their insufferable pain soothed with every step closer.

A fire was raging in their veins.

When all the pack's youth were at the mating ceremony in a grand clearing, finding their destined partner, mocking the fate of these cursed five, thinking they would be forever wolf-less without any bond, without any mate and power, they actually found their Mate!

Found the one who could soothe them, could lessen their suffering.

The entire night of humiliation crushed them at once, threatening to bring tears to their eyes, despite being grown men.

Despite being an Alpha, they believed they were.

Did the Moon Goddess show them mercy?

Might their mother's hope to match their names with the LUNAR word have worked?

Anyway, nothing mattered at that moment.

All that mattered was trapping their mate so he could never run away.

Without thinking about anything, anything about the man's origin, all they could think was just mark him.

Mate him.

Fuck him- the man, whose beauty blurred the lines between male and female.

The man's long hair and flowing robes only added to their chaotic confusion.

With their instinct to act, they lost their last reason...

He couldn't control his desire, his longing, his attraction, and neither could his brothers.

It was such an irony that the Moon goddess could only spare them one Mate. But it's still a blessing.

So, when Axe was thrusting in a slow rhythm, and Ugo, behind him, was growing increasingly irritated from waiting, Leo, with his satisfied body, was looking at the man, leaning on the edge leisurely.

His eyes caught every single expression the man could give.

But his intense gaze didn't interrupt Moon's thoughts, which were drifting to another place.

Unlike them, he didn't feel any pain, only pleasure.

He was not a half-shifted wolf but a mage. He expected pain, but instead, his body greedily devoured them.

Moon's consciousness drifted inside his vein, where his spiritual power was flowing rapidly. His five elemental cores were pulsing inside his lower abdomen.

A fiery orange globe!

Yes, one of his five cores had evolved into a fiery core.

Moon was so ecstatic and focused on checking his magic core that he didn't notice another hard arousal pressing on him from behind.

Just when he felt something was wrong, and his ass felt stuffed, he cried out in alarm.

Instantly, his body arched in shock, and he locked his limbs around Axe, clinging to him tightly.

"Shit! Ah! Don't just force your way into an already-filled hole!" He roared at Ugo.

Ugo, however, felt no remorse at all. His brows furrowed, and his gentle green eyes were glowing like poisonous mist.

"Can't wait," he grumbled.

And then Rio, who had been watching coldly on the edge of the pool and stroking himself, came closer.

His icy hand grabbed Axe's nape. His voice was cold, "Finish early or fuck off"

Axe chuckled.

His slow rhythmic thrusts sent a silent challenge to the others.

As if it was not enough, he hugged Moon with his arm entirely, slowly kissed his mouth while rolling his hips leisurely.

Moon's eyes twitched at his action.

This fellow was surely looking for a beating.

But if Axe was looking for a beating, Moon was more than ready to give him one.

He gathered his newfound energy in his hand and placed his hand on Axe's nape, on Rio's icy hand, sending a hellish tingling shockwave.

His spiritual force made the two Alphas simultaneously gasp in surprise.

Their hard cocks instantly sprang up.

Pleasure ran through their veins.

Moon didn't give Axe any chance to react before he hugged him tightly and slammed his hips on his cock, forcing him to knot right there.

'Great, you want to stay longer, let's see who wins. I have the dual cultivation technique that can even make you climax with a touch.'

Axe's eyes flickered slightly, his lower abdomen clenching in tightness, and then he rammed frantically before sinking his teeth into Moon's neck, letting go of his control.

"Ummmm," Moon let out a whimper.

Ugo got closer to his back, waiting, looking at his prey.

And Moon's 2nd core with a silver glow opened up instantly inside, connecting with the scent of the alpha, who was gnawing on his neck to mark his own.

'Goddess, is this your gift? Then I gladly accept this,' Moon thought.

[You can't be marked like this. It's temporary.]

Moon heard the voice; he frowned, completely bewildered.

'Why? And where did my scent come from?' 

It was silent for a moment before the voice rang again. 

[Um, Insufficient XP. The host can't access this information.]

'What? What kind of answer is this? What is XP? Moon sensed the Goddess's awkwardness.

[Well, a system. Humans call it a system. Anyway, you can't be marked like this, you are a mage.] 

She replied dismissively, avoiding the topic entirely.

'I can make a contract with them; they are wolves, they can be contracted as a beast, an equal contract.'

Moon slowly rolled his hips when answering, entirely devoid of the shame he felt before.

[Clever! But you need permission, will they agree?]

Moon didn't answer her, but kissed Nox beside him.

"Do you want to bind me with you?" He whispered.

"We already have." Axe lifted his head, looking into his eyes.

Nox pushed Axe to the side, who was shamelessly hugging their mate, even answering his question.

"You can't, not like this. I am not a wolf," Moon said slowly.

The moment the words left his mouth, all the Alphas froze in place.

They looked at him intensely, their gaze judging his body, his words, his scent.

They all felt the mating call.

They smelled the scent.

There was no mistake in that.

Then why?

How was he not a Wolf?