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.

a hand out to me. Slowly, I took it and

to use it, or how

smiled and squeezed

I said with a

me away but my mind was still on the missing piece of the artifact. The reason I had wanted to find

one is in danger, you will

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

in danger soon and there was nothing I could do about it. No matter how strong and invincible he

Soren’s logic, there was the knowledge I had that he didn’t… which was that he was in danger and the only way

rush to

looking back at me and I

time to come to an end

to focus on right now. It was a selfish thought when we had real dangers and real

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 what it did but I knew I was the only one that could use it. I was

couldn’t tell Soren that. He wouldn’t like the idea of me wanting

you still

the few things my parents left for me. Who knows when I’ll get

“Mila, you are in control of this situation, not your parents and not the people that stole the artifact

control?” I asked,

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

give them

when would you like the artifact back?” he said

and crossed my arms. What was Soren asking? He couldn’t be serious about this. He really thought that we could

me, Mila. Just give me a timeline,” Soren

month,” I

***

to Marno pack, just a small village on the outside of the big city. We didn’t want to strain Lethe out even more by asking

load up on supplies for the journey back to the

restocking, we grabbed some lunch

ears perked up when I heard

“… Blade of Souls…”

nodded in the direction I’d heard the

lips and nodded subtly. By silent consent,

Blade of

“What is that?”

artifact. The most powerful

most powerful, you

new artifact.

“Universal?”

It can control all other artifacts and doesn’t even need

of Souls and the universal artifact have been

heard they said both of them would

he was the one spreading the rumors. He had orchestrated all of this and that smug look was satisfaction at seeing his plan

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