Sold AS The alpha King's Breeder

Chapter 723

CHAPTER 68 : ARE YOU BUILDING A PACK?

I shook my head and looked around at the hole. “Helen wouldn’t do this…”

“Mila, listen to me,” Soren said. He took my hands and pulled them away from my face.

“This is… all wrong. We weren’t supposed to be late,” I muttered. My mind reeled.

This wasn’t how I saw this playing out. We’d finally gotten ahead and we were making progress. How had we fallen so far behind suddenly?

“Please, Mila, look at this from the positive side. This might not be as bad as you think,” he implored.

I creased my brow. “What do you mean?”

“Think about it. Whoever took it only has one part of the artifact. It won’t be that powerful and they won’t be able to use it anyway,” he said.

“The Moonlit Crystal has power on its own. The blade could, too,” I said.

“The Moonlit Crystal works for you because of your bloodline. Anyone that takes the blade won’t be able to use it because they don’t have the blood,” he reminded me.

“You think… Maybe Helen told someone?” I asked, biting my lower lip.

Soren sighed. “Perhaps. Although, I hate to say it, but it is more likely that it was tortured out of her…”

“That doesn’t exactly make me feel better,” I groaned.

“I know, I’m sorry. Either way, it means Helen doesn’t have the final piece, so whoever does, can’t use it,” he continued.

“You’re right… the power isn’t complete and that means the pieces are useless,” I concurred.

“It is true that you can’t use the artifact but the people that got this piece can’t use it either,” he said.

“That is a bright side,” I agreed, nodding. I frowned slightly and shrugged.

“You don’t sound like you think it is a bright side,” Soren said, arching an eyebrow. “Are you after the power of the artifact?

“No… not right now,” I said, shaking my head.

“Not right now? Does that mean you have a use for it sometime in the future?” he pressed.

I smiled lightly and shook my head again. “No, I don’t even know what it does…”

“Then we don’t have to rush, do we?” Soren asked.

“I guess not…”

“Then it doesn’t seem like a good use of our time chasing after the missing piece right now, does it? We can wait and see. An artifact like that won’t stay hidden for long, now that it has been dug up, I’m guessing it won’t be long before we hear something,” he added.

me. Slowly, I took it and he started to lead me away from the dug up

know what it does, how to use it, or how to

smiled and

fine,” I said with a

artifact. The reason I had wanted to find

your loved one is in

that what she said? Or something like that… Whatever it was, I knew I’d need the artifact to

him. He was going to be in danger soon and there was nothing I could do about it. No matter how strong and invincible he seemed, despite the fact that he always had everything under

able to save him when I needed to. Despite Soren’s logic, there was the knowledge

a rush to get

looking back at me and I smiled, looking

piece missing, we’d be spending more time together. I hadn’t wanted our time to come to an end and now Soren

from Soren. That was not a thought I needed to focus on right now. It was a selfish thought

to spend more time with him didn’t mean I should delay finding the Blade of Souls. Helen’s warning could still be true and if it was… the Blade of Souls was the only thing that could save him. I didn’t even know

tell Soren that. He wouldn’t like the idea of me wanting to protect him

still

Blade of Souls is one of the few things my parents left for me. Who knows when I’ll get it back and… I don’t feel great about it being unaccounted

control of this situation, not your parents and not the people

am I in control?”

that they are the easy ones to control because

want to give them more?” I

feed them information to make them salivate. Now tell me, when would you like the artifact back?” he said grinning. “When do you think you’ll be ready to face your

about this. He really thought that we could get the artifact

Just give me a timeline,”

month,” I answered,

***

Marno pack, just a small village on the outside

for us to load up on supplies for the journey back to

grabbed some lunch at one of the

ears perked up when I

“… Blade of Souls…”

whispered. I nodded in the direction

his finger to his lips and nodded subtly. By silent consent,

Blade

“What is that?”

powerful artifact. The

most powerful,

artifact. Something that

“Universal?”

control all other artifacts and doesn’t even need an Alpha

of Souls and the universal artifact

them would show up in

nodded, smirking. So, he was the one spreading the rumors. He