The Alpha King's Witch Bride-Chapter 237: _Finding The Raven Witch

"Elder Luzia is dead, and most of the upper parts of the high tower are in ruin." Governor Daniel said with frustration, banging his right fist on a round table.

It was a final meeting to plan how to confront the raven witch while also cleansing her control over the human soldiers.

The meeting was held in a bright room at a different building, and gathered around the round table were I, Kaelos, Governor Daniel, two human leaders in the army—General Reyes and Colonel Fernando—and finally the male witch from the city’s gates.

Kaelos sat beside me with his arms folded in front of his chest, staring directly at Governor Daniel before he spoke. "And Leticia? What happened to her?"

The governor sighed heavily, brushing his right hand through his messy hair. He seemed to have aged by a decade because of the stress and I could tell he was trying to hide his emotions.

I could tell Luzia was an important woman in the city, beyond just being one of its leaders. When that butterfly, the last piece of her consciousness, landed on my forehead, I got a lot of insight.

I felt her emotions on a level deeper than any mere mind-reading spell. She fought hard. Protected her people fiercely until the very end.

The magic vines coiling around most of the skyscrapers in the city were her making. And now they were all withering away after her death.

"Leticia is alive, but barely." Governor Daniel revealed. "She’s responding to medical treatment but she’s currently unconscious. Luzia managed to chase out the raven witch’s possession before her death." freeweɓnovēl.coɱ

Just then, the male witch from the gates, whose name I came to discover was "Isaiah", coughed, causing all heads to turn to him.

"We were hoping to be able to question her about how she got possessed in the first place. There had to be a way the raven witch got to her."

Kaelos suddenly blurted. "Well, I assume she’s unconscious. We can’t wait for her to wake up. The longer we wait, the more the raven witch’s influence increases. She’s been plotting from the shadows, playing your leaders like a flute and using your soldiers to capture an unknown number of innocent wolves."

Isaiah rolled his eyes, placing his hands on the table. "You don’t have to rub it on our faces, Alpha King. Elder Luzia was the last high priestess of the coven alive after the war, and the passage of time took the lives of others. The magic wards protecting this city—"

"Failed you. The wards failed you and now my wolves are paying the cost!" Kaelos barked just then, and I could feel his emotions surging.

There was mostly anger. But also disappointment. A sense of failure.

"Oh, and we didn’t lose anything?" General Reyes scoffed. "The most powerful witch in the country is dead. Our city’s most powerful protector fell. We—"

"And whose fault is it? Mine? My mate’s perhaps?" Kaelos continued, his voice laced with scorn. "Maybe if you people hadn’t branded me with a fucking sigil holding back my Alpha King power, I would’ve been able to beat out the possession from Leticia’s head before things escalated to this point."

"And there’s the barbaric thinking that made me brand you in the first place." Isaiah sneered just then, eyeing Kaelos with contempt.

’Kaelos, calm down.’ I said to him mentally, placing my right hand on his arm but he growled menacingly.

"Why don’t you take this sigil off so I can show you how ’barbaric’ I can be, pretty boy?" Kaelos said with a daring voice, causing Isaiah to frown in response.

I could feel a headache coming in.

"Pretty boy? You—"

"Enough!" I yelled out, unable to take it anymore. "Goddess, you all are adults! I get it, emotions and tensions are high after we lost a great ally and... Friend to some. But arguing like children is only wasting our time."

Silence.

I scanned my gaze around, my jaw tightening a little. Everyone either looked away or lowered their gaze like children thinking about what they’d done.

’Pft... Men.’ Sirena scoffed in my head but I only let out a light sigh before continuing.

"Good. Now, what we need is a strategy." I leaned back, folding my arms in front of my chest as I drew in a deep breath. "Luzia left behind something before she died. A piece of her consciousness containing information on the exact location of the raven witch."

The General and Colonel murmured to themselves while Isaiah spoke up with a judgmental look.

"And you didn’t say anything all this time? Why would she entrust such information to a—"

"Hybrid?" I completed his sentence for him, smiling sarcastically. "Beats me. Maybe she saw me as more trustworthy since the rest of the city is probably compromised. Also, I didn’t exactly have time to say anything through all your bickering."

Isaiah clenched his jaw but he remained silent, looking away.

I rolled my eyes, glancing at Kaelos who had calmed down now. He had a proud expression and gave me a nod, prompting me to go ahead.

"I would’ve suggested we start fishing out the human soldiers among your ranks who she has under her manipulation, but that will take too much time. Leticia has been possessed by her all this time and yet a powerful witch like Luzia never noticed. So instead..."

I got on my feet, grabbing a tablet off the hands of the Governor who frowned in confusion until I gave him a "I know what I’m doing" look.

I proceeded to scroll through the tablet until I got to the maps, showing a view of Mexico City and most of the land around it.

My fingers hovered over the screen, pausing just above a forest cluster that looked utterly unremarkable. But something in Luzia’s memory pulsed in my mind.

I zoomed in on the forest cluster, stopping on a particular spot. After linking the tablet with a large television screen in the room, I pointed at the screen.

"That’s where the Raven witch is," I said confidently, scanning my gaze around.

The humans glanced at themselves while Isaiah swerved his head to me in confusion.

"Those are just a bunch of trees. How come our surveillance satellites never caught sight of her illegal activities there?"

I only gave him a glance before I explained calmly. "Simple. Spatial manipulation. The fact that she was able to use portal route spells linking her base to the wolf packs where she captures victims already proves how powerful she is in the art of space manipulation."

I dropped the tablet on the table and placed my palms on its cold surface, staring solemnly at everyone present.

"My theory is she’s bent the space in that region to create a pocket dimension where she keeps the victims. The question now is... How do we get in?"

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