She Belongs To The Devil

"A ravager?"

A big brown wolf was staring at Adeline with its white eyes. The way it was glaring at Adeline and the way it was salivating made it very apparent that the wolf was no longer able to differentiate between friends and foes.

The fur around its mouth was smeared in blood. Human blood.

And the only things that were in that wolf's mind at the moment were – blood, flesh, and kill.

Agnes tightened her grip on the reins of her horse. She looked around to see a trail of ruthlessly mangled human bodies. "Oh dear lord! That wolf is already far gone…" she mumbled to herself.

"What do I do with this ravager?" Adeline shouted and asked the others, even though she pretty much knew what needed to be done.

"Kill it!" Agnes shouted back without missing a beat. "It can't be saved anymore. It no longer has its human side."

Adeline had only touched her sword when that wolf made its move.

In one leap, that wolf was right in front of Adeline. And in another leap, it pushed Adeline down on the ground to tear off her flesh like it had done to countless people already.

Adeline grabbed both of its front paws and pushed them upward so that its fangs and claws wouldn't touch her. She kicked that wolf on its belly and flipped it so that it was also lying on its back now.

Agnes gave a ringing to its ears and helped in keeping that rabid animal down until Adeline got back up on her feet.

The Queen swiftly pulled out her sword and stood with her legs on either side of that wolf. She pitifully looked at that wolf that was once a human and apologized, "I'm so sorry that I'm going to do this to you. May your soul find peace."

For a second, the wolf's eyes softened a bit as though there still was a shred of the human side in that wolf.

Adeline furrowed her brows and stopped herself from killing that wolf thinking it could still revert back to being a human.

However, that was just her wishful thinking. It aggressively snarled and lifted its head to attack Adeline.

Before it would be too late, Adeline clenched her jaw and pierced her sword right through that wolf's heart.

It gave a painful howl. Its head landed back on the ground with a light thud. And its eyes turned back to amber as some drops of tear rolled down its eyes.

After that wolf took its last breath, Adeline pulled out her sword from that wolf's chest with a heavy heart. "If you can, then please forgive me for involving you in this fight and turning you into this monster."

It pained her to see that even after taking so many precautions like having the human soldiers wear the silver armor, and having the wolves surrounded by the witches and wizards to separate them from the relatively weaker humans, this wolf had still turned into a ravager.

And to make the matter even worse, she became the one to kill it when the wolves came to fight from her side upon her own request.

Adeline glanced at the amber eyes that looked similar to her brother's and a very selfish thought fleeted in her mind, "Would I be cruel if I feel relieved that this wolf was not Nigel?"

She couldn't help but think that this wolf could easily have been her brother if he had fought here instead of fighting in the west.

"Adeline, we have to go. The wolves have already separated from us," Agnes urged Adeline to get back on her horse so that they could continue on their real mission.

The wolves of the Beta Team were engaging in a fight with the human soldiers from the enemy side. They were already making way for the Queen to reach the place where Reginald was.

"Okay, let's go," Adeline turned her back on that wolf that she had just killed, put her sword back in its scabbard, and climbed on Arion.

Arion instantly started to run without giving Adeline a chance to even order him. He didn't want Adeline's thoughts to linger on that dead wolf when an even bigger problem was now not too far away from them.

Arion obviously knew how Adeline's thought process worked by now. He knew that she was probably blaming herself for what happened to that wolf. So before she would be totally engulfed by her guilt, Arion wanted her to face her main enemy.

He dodged all the enemies that were trying to fight Adeline and ran towards Reginald so fast that they had left Agnes far behind and had already caught up to the rest of the Beta Team.

"Adeline, take out your sword." Arion was the one to order Adeline and take a lead this time. "We are going alongside the wolves, not far behind them. Or else, their effort of creating an opening for us won't matter if it closes before we can get through."

Adeline looked behind to see that Agnes had separated from the team. So she asked, "What about Agnes?"

"You have the pills, right? It will cover you for some time even if you were to get hurt." Arion was not going to wait for anyone and make Adeline fight any more of the opponents than she really needed to.

Adeline was still not so sure about leaving Agnes behind. "Yeah, I do have the pills but…"

She took out her sword and clanged it against an arrow that came flying in her direction.

Arion became more vigilant about the surrounding when a few more arrows continuously came at them. He spotted the archer far in a distance, he was specifically targeting Adeline.

Arion narrowed his gaze at that archer and opened his mouth. He then shot a black goo aiming at that archer. That goo went shooting at an incredible speed and landed right on that archer's bow.

His target was impeccable. The bow melted down from that archer's hand and all he was holding was some slimy black thing that dropped all over his hand and ground.

When Team Beta was gradually closing in on their target, Arion further tried to reason with Adeline that leaving Agnes behind was not a bad idea.

"Adeline, I don't think your battle with Reginald is going to end within a few minutes. It might take hours considering the fact that both of you are not the type to give up. So Agnes will catch up by the time you might need her. For now, let's get the two of you rulers fighting as soon as possible."

Arion's reasoning didn't sound bad to Adeline. "Okay. Let's figh–"

"Wait! Where did that fool of a King disappear?" Adeline darted her eyes around the battlefield but he was nowhere to be seen.

Arion also looked around and shouted, "Look! He's with that demoness!"

"What is he doin… Is that demoness trying to kill Reginald?" Adeline raised her brows in amusement upon seeing that King getting strangled by Lilith, his 'secret weapon'.

"Well… that would be an interesting way for this war to come to an end." Arion slowed down a little while staring at that interesting scene.

When their eyes were still fixated on Reginald, they were instantly on their guard when that demoness threw Reginald right in their direction.

Arion's speed declined drastically and almost abruptly, he stopped. Adeline would have been thrown down if she wasn't being careful.

In Arion's eyes, Reginald was looking like some piece of garbage flying along with the wind. So he warned Adeline as that King approached closer and closer to them, "Uh! Poop incoming…"

"I know..." Adeline tightened her clutch on her sword while her eyes were focused on that flying Vampire King.

Reginald landed right in front of Adeline and Arion with a loud thud. "Arghhhh! That bitch! How dare she throw me away like that?"

He was grimacing in pain and was lifted his back in pain when he noticed Adeline giving a death glare to him.

He instantly tried to act as though he wasn't just whining like a baby. He crossed his legs while still lying down and put his arms behind his head pretending that he was simply taking a sweet nap in the middle of the battlefield.

He flicked his brows at Adeline and gave a very cheeky smirk. And he said in a belittling tone, "Hey, sweetheart! Are you ready to have some fun with me?"