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

whether friend or foe. As soon as they

burdens they charged headlong

in front

effortlessly before them as they

wantonly through the air with their tusks. The unfortunate victims that

weren’t fast enough to

into a grotesque mess under

across to where the beasts forced their way through

to him and saw that they were

toward the gargantuan beast

the

he charged headlong down the gap in the

toward the most dangerous opponent on

could dispatch the most obvious threat on the battlefield quickly, then it was

off the stragglers. The smaller

an issue because of their numbers. His heart pounded loudly in

to come in ragged bursts as

distance and as they

chunks and the beast relatively unbothered by

doing, a deep sense of dread began

at the tiny figures slicing away at his legs and

lifted his leg and swept

enemy before landing in the middle of

screaming as they

avoid the first sweep

redoubled his efforts.

magick flew past rapidly now, narrowly missing him as the

on bringing

creating large holes in the body as it began to become

at

swing of its gargantuan arm, the enormous monstrosity

with his first shot but one of the

second swing

him soaring into the air, before crashing into

his body now lying

laughter intensified from within the cage as the elite escort that

them safely to

was slowly, but surely,

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

came to a halt,

curiously.

“It f**’**g took you long enough you rotten S*hi*t…’1 he grumbled as

stepping over the dead that

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

the cages on the cart and the driver looked back at it