Alpha Nocturne"s Contracted Mate

Alpha Nocturne’s Contracted Mate by A E Randell

Chapter 152 The Most Dangerous Opponent

The ground beneath them seemed to erupt as vile, twisted creatures emerged as far

as the eye could see, bringing with them a stench that was so overpowering a

mult*itude of hands flew upwards to cover their faces with the masks of their attire as

they gagged violently.

The rotting flesh of the gargantuan beast that seemed to detach itself from the

mountainside rippled disgustingly as it lumbered towards them, vile fluids oozing from

the open sores and dripping down onto the ma*s*s of creatures swarming below it.

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The entire convoy seemed to freeze momentarily in pure, unadulterated terror as the

scene that looked as though it had been ripped straight from a horror movie unfolded

before them.

In seconds, the Enclave’s guards sprung into action. Those that couldn’t shift readied

their weapons and offensive magick as the sound of breaking bones whilst the shifters

changed filled the air. An eerie symphony rippled through the landscape, filled with the

cacophony of grunts and otherworldly shrieks, punctuated by the snap of bones and

hum of magick in the air, the only human sounds were the hastily shouted orders and

the manic laughter that seemed to spring incessantly in their ears.

“With me!” The lead guard roared as he rushed forward, his glaive glinting

dangerously as it arced through the air in a murderous rampage.

The guards rushed forward, engaging the a*s*sailants head-on, the predatory shifters

savaging those that dared to come within reach as bursts of magick were fired

overhead, decimating the ranks of the creatures that swarmed them.

The drivers scrambled down from their positions as the beasts began to panic, lunging

to them whether friend or foe. As soon as

their burdens they charged headlong

in front of

path effortlessly before them as they

air with their tusks. The

attention or simply weren’t fast enough to

grotesque mess under the stampeding of

where the beasts forced

dispatched the attackers closest to him and

path toward the gargantuan beast that lumbered

a few of the men closes

charged headlong down the gap in the ranks of

the most dangerous opponent on the

could dispatch the most obvious threat on the battlefield

finishing off the stragglers. The smaller creatures that

were only an issue because of their numbers. His heart pounded

ears, and his breath was beginning to come

as they launched their attack against the rotting

chunks and the beast

doing, a deep sense of dread began

creature glanced down at the tiny figures slicing away at his legs and

as he lifted his leg and swept it sidewards, knocking 2 of the guard across

landing in the middle

screaming as they were

managed to avoid the first sweep and roared in fury as

redoubled his efforts.

flew past rapidly now,

on bringing the beast

holes in the body as it began to

their attacks, swatting at the figures as if they

lazy swing of its gargantuan arm, the

the smaller creatures that had taken

the guard enough for the second swing to

into the air, before crashing into a broken heap on

his body now lying

laughter intensified from within the cage

to their new prison

sentences was slowly, but surely, whittled down until only

silently by the side of the cart, gripping his concealed dagger tightly

towards him and came

curiously.

took you long enough you rotten S*hi*t…’1 he grumbled as

over the dead that now

groaned forlornly as it lumbered after the tiny figure in front as

cages on the cart and