The Alpha King's Nemesis-Chapter 58: The Supernatural Council ()

After a few hours, all parties involved and related had been summoned back to the throne room including Zariah.

And that was precisely what had led up to the now, where she stood in the throne room, arm’s crossed behind her back and eyes closed in meditation.

Zariah could feel the fury of the two warring species and their killing intents was palpable, it was an understandable situation,

One side stood accused of abducting s royal princess of the other side, both sides were naturally highly agitated, one for the uncertainty of the life of their princess and the other for the false accusation laid on them.

To the Fairies, it was a life and death situation for their royal princess, while to the merfolk, it was a matter of honor as their reputation and dignity was being threatened,

In the supernatural realm, honor equalled one’s life, it was a better choice to forfeit one’s life than loose dignity, although this was a concept the fairies had never resigned to,

However in this case, neither side would suffer any less injustice than the other as they both had almost equal bets at stake.

Although their agitation was awfully visible, neither of the two sides dared argue before King Askel.

King Askel had made it clear that whoever made the first move against the other would die in this very throne room.

Which was justified as the Ethereal domain was King Askel’s territory, regardless of the war on the outside, there was no justification to battle it out within the lands of an uninvolved specie,

Beyond that, whatever King Askel regarded as a threat to the safety of his people could be eradicated immediately and it would not be against the supernatural laws,

The fact that Lady Floraina had gone right ahead to activate the death haze was already good enough cause to have her on the chopping block,

There was no one ignorant enough to believe King Askel was just making threats, his words was a deadly promise that he certainly had every ability to fulfill.

If there was one thing Zariah knew of King Askel, then it was the fact that he was not intimidated by any of the other species, not even in the slightest.

King Askel would not hesitate to eliminate whoever got on his bad side and no one would dare speak a word.

There was a reason the wolf shifters were so feared by the other species, they were naturally bloodthirsty and dominant and in a world were the strong was King, they could be regarded amongst the strongest.

Except the Dragon Shifters and perhaps the Sea Kingdom and the Demon species, none of the other species could actually claim to stand a chance in a direct battle against the wolf shifters.

King Askel sat on his throne, his gaze fixed on Zariah all the while, blatantly ignoring the tense standoff in his throne room.

Zariah herself did not pay any heed to the happenings around her, her eyes firmly closed in meditation,

Yet if there was one thing Zariah could still sense despite how hard she was trying to ignore it, then it could only be the piercing gaze of those golden orbs fixed on her.

Zariah felt the intensity of King Askel’s gaze and the hairs on her body stood on end whilst she swallowed down the urge to fidget uneasily.

His gaze had been fixed on her right from the moment she stepped into the throne room and they had not drifted away for even a moment ever since.

Zariah was not even certain he had blinked and as tempted as she was to break the haze of her meditation and see for herself, to meet his gaze and see what was held within,

Zariah knew there was the shameful possibility that she would find herself drawn into those alluring golden orbs and then she would be unable to break out of the daze.

It was a slim chance, but Zariah was not taking any more chances than she already had the previous night when she had let him kiss her and now found it so hard to forget the taste of him. 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Zariah could tell King Askel had expected her to come to his side upon her rival and was greatly disappointed when she did not,

Zariah had instead chosen to stand on the lower level alongside the other representatives although on opposite ends so there was still a good distance between herself and them.

There was something about King Askel’s gaze that awakened all her senses to him, Zariah could not even understand it, but then, she had long accepted the fact that the mate bond simply could not be understood.

Zariah who was quite capable of muting every surrounding distractions during meditation just could not ignore him at this very moment.

Zariah felt his presence, his gaze, everything about him so vividly that it seemed as if they were the only two in the throne room and everyone else was just unwelcome decoration.

It baffled Zariah how she had only known him for two days and only had three conversations with him and yet every cell in her body was so aware of his presence and reacted so intensely to him.

Again, Zariah cursed the existence of the mate bond and just how hard to overcome it was.

Zariah had never found anything so difficult to defeat all her life and she had battled her own fair share of powerful opponents, yet this mate bond superceded them all.

And Zariah admitted how silly it was that she now regarded the mate bond as an opponent to be battled but that was truly how it had come to be.

If Zariah did not have as much self control as she did, she would already have stormed out of the throne room, if only to escape King Askel’s gaze.

Zariah felt as though he was staring straight into her soul, unravelling what lay beneath the walls she had built around her heart and imprinting his presence and existence into Zariah’s mind against her will.

And then there was his scent... God’s his scent!

Among the dozens presently occupying the throne room, each with their own distinct scent, yet his scent still clouded her senses.

Each breath Zariah took, she had to swallow down the urge to shudder as that heady scent overwhelmed her senses.

’Focus Zari!’ Zariah mentally lectured, shaking her head slightly as she sternly reminded herself that she was not allowed to have these thoughts and the feelings that came with them.

Zariah felt the unwanted thoughts slowly flit away and her mind returned to the peaceful blankness she preferred as King Askel’s gaze also became less unnerving, if only by a little.

Zariah was not sure for how long they waited, she did not really care enough to keep a track of the passing of time and Zariah was not the only one,

The tension within the throne room was enough to keep everyone alert and on edge till the very moment the doors to the throne room were shoved open.

Zariah’s body stiffened slightly and her eyes remained closed yet her ears twitched as she picked up multiple footsteps.

The footsteps were light and barely audible and it was clear they belonged to seasoned warriors who had mastered the art of soundless movement.

From the sound Zariah picked up, she counted five different set of footsteps walking into the throne room and Zariah guessed they were all members of the supernatural council.

From their scents, Zariah could see one was of the merfolk, there were two vampires, a wolf shifter, a fairy and a warlock.

Zariah did not need to see them to sense their imposing bearing or to know each would be a formidable personality of his own right,

Only the very best of the supernatural realm were allowed into the supernatural council, as the sole body that could pass judgement on an entire specie of which all the other species were duty bound to abide by,

The supernatural council was a critical organization in the supernatural realm and had been formed by the very first Crimson Alpha who had led the supernatural races to victory during the dark war.

In all honesty, the very beginnings of the peace alliance and the past centuries of glory of the supernatural realm, it had all begun with the Crimson Moon.

From granting the Royal Lycan Pack rulership over the Ethereal domain as the wolf shifters had been much like the vampires before without a distinct ruler,

Down to selecting the members and head of the supernatural council after the dark war, all of these had been done by the Crimson Moon Pack.

Even the division of the domains had been jointly decided by the supernatural races with the Crimson Moon presiding over the proceedings.

Zariah found it quite disappointing that all the species had forgotten the great cost of the peace they enjoyed today and could only think of declaring war at the slightest provocation,

However it was for this very reason that the supernatural council existed.