Chapter 77 Shadows And Sunrise
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Roman said he took care of the hunter then who was this?!
Phina growled in my mind, “It seems there were two hunters in the trial!”
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I clenched my fists. This was a disaster. Twists were expected in the trial but the dawn! And the hunter was living up to hi name.
the timing
could not be worse.
It was already
Ronan and the hunter were a blur of claws and fury.
I could barely keep up, my eyes straining to follow the deadly choreography unfolding in front of me. Every time I thought 1 caught the edge of a movement, another strike came from a different angle–faster, sharper, impossibly precise. The sounds were sickening: the clash of bone against bone, the hiss of air whistling around claws that could tear through skin and soul alike, and the low, guitural growls that rumbled from deep within both their chests.
Konan moved like a storm, his body a weapon forged by rage and purpose. The hunter, however, was no less terrifying. He was lithe and silent, crouched low with a bone–white mask etched in runes that glowed faintly under the dying moonlight. His strikes were clean, calculating. Ronan’s were fueled by instinct.
Claws tore through bark and left gashes in the trees. Rocks splintered. Earth flew.
While I stood frozen, helpless–watching them destroy each other.
The edges of the forest trembled around us, as though even nature recoiled from their battle.
“No,” I whispered, backing away.
This fight was never going to end but I did not have that much time. I had to meet Alpha Hugo!
I spun around toward the forest’s edge, my chest heaving. The invisible wall that had once repelled me shimmered faintly with magic, like heat waves rising off sunlit stone. My hands slammed against it.
“Let me through!” I yelled, shoving, clawing at the barrier. “Let me out!!”
My voice cracked. The trees didn’t answer.
Behind me, the sound of bodies colliding echoed like thunder.
“Alpha Hugo…I choked, turning my back to the fight, trying to get the barrier open. “I have to get to him! Just a minute–just one minute, please—”
But it was no use.
The wall held, pulsing with cold rejection. It was only going to let me through when Ronan won the trial or the trial itself
ended
I turned, desperate, and saw blood splatter the earth. Ronan’s shoulder had been slashed. The hunter’s mask was cracked slightly around his eyes. Their breaths came hard and ragged, but neither of them slowed. They fought like two halves of destruction itself,neither willing to fall, nor surrendering.
A large bead of sweat rolled down my clicek, hot and angry
I couldn’t stop them. I couldn’t end this trial.
I could do nothing!!
But if I could do nothing then that meant I would lose….
The light suddenly changed, ripping through my thoughts, adding a layer of horror within rue.
A shalt of gold split through the trees. The sky cracked open with color.
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I turned slowly, watching the horizon bleed into morning. Orange and pink lit the sky like fire had kissed the world. I warched, numb, as the final seconds of my chance dissolved into light.
It was over.
My legs b
gs buckled beneath me. I barely managed to stand on my own two feet.
The morning had come.
I had failed.
prove my innocence and had become a murderer.
I could not take Ronan to Alpha Hugo, I could not prove my it
My mind went blank at that point, I did not realise the fighting between Ronan and the hunter stopped behind me. An invisible force separating the two of them.
Silence swallowed the forest.
And then-
A sharp ripple cut through the air like a sheet being torn. The barrier around the forest dropped.
I looked up just as the world shifted.
Light exploded across my vision, and I stumbled, blinded and breathless, before falling forward onto smooth stone. The forest was gone.
I blinked against the sunlight. When my vision cleared, I found myself standing on the main grounds of the Academy–just in front of the wide, crescent staircase of the main building.
What-
Ronan was beside me, chest rising and falling with labored breaths, blood streaked down his arm. The hunter stood across from him, mask still in place, his posture rigid but equally bloodied.
I found myself between the two of them. And surrounding us–were all of them.
The Alpha instructors..
My heart dropped in my stomach. They were all there. Did Alpha Hugo…tell everyone…
Alpha Gideon stepped forward from the line of authorities, his arms clasped behind his back. His dark hair was slicked down with precision, and the steel in his gaze was unmistakable. He glanced at me once then at Ronan and the hunter.
“The hunter and the hunted,” he said, voice cutting through the silence like a blade, “Both have made it to sunrise.” he looked between two of them and added, “The trial ends in a tie.”
A dead silence fell in the room.
I swallowed hard, the weight of those words slamming into me.
How could a
Did the the not ran both Ronan and Hunter won!
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I did not know what Ronan’s expression was but I clearly sensed his aura darkening.
The next thing I knew the hunter walked past me. I glanced up trying to see through his cracked mask. But what I did not know was that he was already watching me
The pair of sharp eyes locked with ine, sold and powerful. He strode to the Academy building without a word.
was he going in therer
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“Alpha Seth Darven. Alpha Gideon stepped closer, his eyes now settling on me.
I forgot everything instantly and fear curled in my chest. He stared at me coldly.
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I looked past Alpha Hugo. His expression was unreadable. Since I had failed he had told Alpha Gideon that I murdered
Dante.
I secretly clenched my pants in fear. Was I finally being expelled from the Academy? Did they already inform Seth’s father? Did father get a word from my uncle? Did he figure out I had come here disguised as Seth?
Was it all really over for me?
“Alphas Seth Darven, Welcome to the supreme Alpha race, Alpha Gideon stated.
My body froze in shock. Wait. What did he just say? I made it…. I?
“Why are you standing here like a statue?” Ronan’s voice came from the side startling me. I glanced up at him as he suddenly threw his arm around my neck and leaned towards me, “Help me to the healers‘ wing before I die.”
I stared at him with wide eyes and then at Alpha Hugo. He stood there silent even when Ronan made me walk past them to the Academy building.
No one stopped me.
No one called me out as a murderer.
As soon as we entered the healers quiet wing, I hurriedly asked Ronan, “What is going on with all of this? Why didn’t Alpha Hugo call me out?”
“He probably found the letter that I left on his desk before leaving for the trial,” he glanced down at me.
“What letter?” I exclaimed. What could be written in it that saved me and also absolved me from the murder charges.
Suddenly Ronan’s arm around my neck forced me close to his chest. I gasped in surprise as he stood tall, towering over me, both of our bodies touching, “If you want details..” he whispered, leaning closer to my lips, “…give me a kiss.”
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