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Empire of Crescent Dragons- The Winter of the Blessed

Married off to a nobleman she had never met, Alana's dreams of freedom becomes reality when her husband mysteriously dies without her ever having laid eyes on him. Sent to his ancestral home, a sprawling mansion shrouded under the snow of the cold frozen Lands, Alana assumes her role as the Lady of the house, yearning for freedom from the judgmental eyes of her former town. Determined to live life without the confines of societal expectations and release her true self, she embraces the opportunity to start anew. As Alana begins her new life with a new found purpose, living for herself. Managing a Wintergarten, she begings her new life, with her soulbound dragon. Just as Alana finds solace in her newfound independence, her assumed-to-be-deceased husband, Ashur, shockingly reappears. Amidst the conflicts that, his arrival ushered that threatens to consume them all, Alana must navigate her conflicting emotions and the all her feelings for independence, and learn what is meant to love and to be loved. As Alana and Ashur's s paths intertwine, a dangerous game of desire, secrets, and hidden agendas emerges. With unexpected alliances and unimaginable obstacles, both must confront their darkest fears to uncover the truth that lay buried within themselves. Can Alana break free from the judgments that have plagued her since her youth and find her true self? Will she sacrifice her heart for duty, or will love triumph over the shadows that haunt them?

Dtrish · Fantasy
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66 Chs

Chapter 53 - Burning sensation Alana POV

I can't sleep, I feel like my body doesn't want to rest, is like is burning inside.

Tera was making my body burn all night since we met him, I don't like that feeling, it makes me feel so ... unsatisfied.

I decided to come outside to calm down, since my body would not stop burning like this.

The White wolfs are not around?

I can't seem to find them . They normally would sleep close to the manor. Since that day, with the Goblins, they haven't left the Manor unless is for hunting, and then they come back to play with the kids from town.

The town people also stopped hunting them, and Lock made his peace with the remaining Wolfs.

As I walked furthers into the forest I could feel a strange aura ahead.

Even though it was strange Tera instincts didn't ticked in.

But then again, Tera has been acting strange for a while today.

My hand went automatically to reach my bow, when I remembered it had been broken and I hadn't with me.

I sighted...I have to ask Yanos to fix it.

'Tera ... '

My eyes started to glow red.

'I know... I feel them coming too.'

'Is it more than one?'

'Yes but... Is just .... Their aura it feels ... different...'

Something grabbed my foot I was being dragged into the forest.

'What is going on..?' I tried to grab something as I was being pulled.

'Wait.. Alana this is wierd..'

'What do you mean wierd?'

'They are ...in mourning...' I was lifted high up in the air, upside down, I could see some kind of flower, a big flower...?

'What is this?' I never seen this before..'should I just cut to free myself.'

As I reached for my dagger ...I heard a noise moving in between leaves up in the tree.

"Stop!" A voice up from the tree whispered, I tried to see who it was. However my dress was making it impossible to recognise who it was.

I was struggling to keep my dress decent, suddenly I fell on the ground.

The voice that had said to stop was closer to me.

"Come Lady Alana." He was helping me up.

As I looked closer at his face I could finally see who it was.

"Ohh Jobus."

"That's just rude.. I am Jakobus, please don't keep forgetting my name, or next time I won't save you."

"Next time?" He smiled at me.

"What are they?" I could finally see them clearly, they were like a bulb shape, placed in a flower.

"They are Allures."

'I feel sadness coming from them.'

"What are you doing here?" I asked him, was he also taking a walk in the forest?

"That is not important now, they want back something... That I have."

'Normally Allures look for men, as they absorb their life energy.'

"Do you want to give it back? " I said as I steady myself. I didn't know if he gave back what they wanted, if that would appease them.

"Is not that simple. You see that something cannot be just taken, and I have only just notice that I had it, and..."

One of the vines came for us again both of us jump to different sides.

'We are lucky that only one of the Allure is attacking us, if all of those bulbs decide to attack us, it will be troublesome.'

'So there's something inside of those bulbs?' I got up as quickly as I could.

'Correctly, and the Allure that is attacking is incredibly angry, they are very calm beings, normally, if the man over there has something they want, is going to be very hard to prevent them from going beserk.'

'Hmmm' it was not up to me, if would or not hand over to them whatever they wanted, but I couldn't let them go beserk, the Allure attack us again, this time it manage to grab Jakos, his neck was being strangled, it was thighing around his neck.

Everytime I tried to come closer to him the vine would thrown me away from him.

He was turning red, very red.

'let's attack direct at the bulb.' Tera didn't like that but if we didn't Jakos would die any minute.

I jumped as high as I could when my dagger was about to pierce the bulb the other Allures made their move hundred of vines grabbed me from all sides I couldn't see anything else.

My dagger fell of my hand, and I felt me and Tera lose consciousness.