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.

hand out to me. Slowly, I took it and he started to lead

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

I said with a

mind was still on the missing piece of the artifact. The reason I had wanted

your loved one is in danger, you will need

was, I knew I’d need the

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

warning. Without the third artifact piece, I wouldn’t be able to save him when I needed to. Despite Soren’s logic, there was the knowledge I had that he didn’t… which was that he was in danger

a rush to

caught Soren looking back at me and I smiled, looking away

come to an end and now Soren and I would be sticking together until we found the final

That was not a thought I needed to focus on right now. It was a selfish thought when we had real dangers and real problems closing in

warning could still be true and if it was… the Blade of Souls was

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

still worried?”

Souls is one of the few things my parents left for me. Who knows when

at me and smirked. “Mila, you are in control of this situation, not your parents and not the people that stole

control?” I asked, arching an

is that they are the easy ones to control

want to give them more?”

information to make them salivate. Now tell me, when would you like the artifact back?” he said grinning.

about this. He really thought that we could get the artifact back by feeding information to the

Mila. Just give me a

month,” I

***

and I went back to Marno pack, just a small village on the outside of the big city. We didn’t want to strain Lethe

few days for us to load up on supplies

we grabbed some lunch at one

when I heard some

“… Blade of Souls…”

in the direction I’d heard the

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

heard, the Blade of

“What is that?”

powerful artifact. The

most

discovered a new artifact. Something that

“Universal?”

other artifacts and doesn’t even need

Both the Blade of Souls and the universal

they said both of them

arched an eyebrow at Soren and he nodded, smirking. So, he was the one spreading the rumors. He had