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.

and he started to

us. They won’t know what it does, how to use it, or how to find the other pieces. They might not even know there are other pieces. We’ll

and

said with a

piece of the artifact. The reason I had wanted to find it so badly was because

in danger, you will need

like that… Whatever it was, I knew I’d need the artifact

could do about it. No matter how strong and

when I needed to. Despite Soren’s logic, there was the knowledge I had that he didn’t… which was that he

rush to

me and I smiled, looking

to come to

thought I needed to focus on right now. It was a selfish thought when we

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

bowed my head. I couldn’t tell Soren that. He wouldn’t like the idea of me wanting to protect him and I knew he would dismiss my

you still

of the few things my parents left for me. Who knows when I’ll get it back and… I don’t feel great

“Mila, you are in control of this situation, not your parents and not

I in control?” I

thing you should learn about greedy people is that they are the easy ones to control

want to give them more?” I

the artifact back?” he said grinning. “When do you think you’ll be ready to face

scoffed and crossed my arms. What was Soren asking? He couldn’t be serious about this. He really thought that we could get the artifact back by

Just give me a timeline,”

month,” I

***

to Marno pack, just a small village on the outside of the big city. We didn’t want to

took a few days for us to load up on supplies for the journey back

restocking, we grabbed some lunch

up when I heard

“… Blade of Souls…”

whispered. I nodded in the direction

lips and nodded subtly. By silent consent, we agreed to listen to

heard, the Blade of Souls

“What is that?”

powerful artifact. The

isn’t the most powerful, you

a new artifact. Something that

“Universal?”

artifacts and doesn’t even need an

Both the Blade of Souls and the

said both of them would show up

spreading the rumors. He had orchestrated all of this and that smug look was

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