Chapter 236: Another dead end?

"It seems like another dead end."

Erick looked over at Paccia, who had voiced that comment out.

Elder Zyair frowned. As much as he hated to agree with the comment, she was right. He let out a sigh, looking over at Dewei, who was now in his human form, still playing with the warlock. The warlock had long gone unconscious after hours of being 'played around' by the eccentric shifter. The other warlock was still unconscious, still lying on the ground with Bastian and Erick guarding over him. They would immediately pounce on him, should he start to awaken.

"Enough of that, Dewei!" he ordered sternly.

Dewei immediately stopped. He then looked up at Elder Zyair and gave him a frown, implying he was such a spoilsport.

Ignoring the glowering shifter, Elder Zyair looked down at the unconscious warlock and said to the others, without turning his head, "Bring him and the other one back to the packhouse prison. We will interrogate them, together with the Alpha."

He then looked at the dead warlock and snorted inwardly. It was better to leave it here and let the wild beasts eat his corpse.

Elder Zyair turned his head and looked over at Ezekiel and Trey, who had just returned back a few minutes ago. In Trey's hands, he was holding up the escaping warlock. The warlock looked so frightened that he had been trembling non-stop and one could see a wet stain on his pants.

Dewei saw the trembling warlock and he burst into a huge grin. "Can I---"

"No!" Both Elder Zyair and Paccia said in unison.

Dewei pouted.

Elder Zyair approached the warlock, who was then dropped to the ground by Trey. The warlock was then immediately surrounded by the other shifters, preventing him from escaping once more.

With Ezekiel and Erick beside Elder Zyair, it was quite an imposing sight to be confronted by.

With no way to run, the warlock looked at them with wary eyes. He cursed himself and his fellow warlocks for being careless.

Just before the shifters had arrived at the den, they were actually still inside the hidden laboratory where they were conducting spells and experiments. From the blood of the vampires and the eyes and hearts of the humans, they were trying to create another potion that would please their master. However, before they could succeed in that mission, they heard warning bells in their mind, alarming them that there were intruders in the hidden path.

They had heard these warning bells once when the bear shifters had found their hidden path but since they were stuck in their path, the warlocks did not take much notice of it and continued on with their experiments.

Yet now when they were so close to succeeding with the experiments, mangy mutts have come scratching at their doors. They had no choice but to postpone their experiments. They quickly grabbed the jars and pots that were filled with their 'ingredients' and then casted a spell over the place to make sure that they did not leave any clues behind.

They were lucky by a few minutes where they managed to escape the place before the shifters arrived at their laboratory. They were snickering with glee, imagining the stupid shifters' shocked faces when they found that there was nothing that they could find in the laboratory. They were aware that the shifters have an annoying seer in their group, hence why they took extra caution when it comes to casting their spells.

Unfortunately, their bliss came short as they got out of the hidden pathway, which was located a few hundred metres away from the den, and found that something or someone was actually heading towards them.

Unbeknownst to them, while they were running away, one of them unknowingly stepped on one of Dewei's trigger traps. They continued to run until they suddenly heard pounding sounds heading their way. Listening carefully, they realized that it was the sounds of a person rushing towards them at high speed. They quickly turned in the other direction, hoping that they might be able to escape from the other person's radar.

Even so, before they could run further, someone had jumped onto them, smashing into the four of them.

Cutting off one of the warlocks' screams, that someone had grabbed him by the mouth and tossed him behind while his feet were on the backs of the other two warlocks. One of the warlocks stared at the man in shock. He couldn't believe that they were caught.

Not wanting to be captured since he was the one who held their 'ingredients', he didn't think twice as he immediately 'abandoned' his fellow warlocks.

Despite feeling indignant from being deserted, the other warlocks knew deep down if they were in his shoes, they'd do the same thing. The most important thing was to make sure that their 'ingredients' were safe and sound so that they could resume their experiment. It was not that easy to get them.

The two warlocks who were underneath the man's feet were trying to crawl out from his grasp when they felt something happened above them. They warily turned their heads up and were surprised to see that the person above them was starting to shift.

Li Jie hunched on top of them, his smile looking more devious, rather than pretty. He looked like a furry gangster, with his arms hanging on top of his legs, as he squatted above them. His paws pressed strongly on their backs, making them spurt blood a little.

The shifter then jumped off them, before grabbing both of their heads and smashing them together. And with that, the two warlocks fell unconscious, laying on the ground, side by side.

Li Jie made a tsk sound, looking very dissatisfied. "That's it?"

Looking down at the two unconscious warlocks with disgust on his expression, he saw their wands beside them and quickly stepped on them, breaking it into half.

He then looked over at the warlock that he had tossed behind. The latter was about to escape when Li Jie suddenly jumped onto him.

The two immediately exchanged fists. Despite his lanky stature, the warlock did a good job in holding himself up against a shifter. Although his powers mainly relies on casting using his wand, apparently, Li Jie was smart to make sure that the former did not have the chance to use his wand as they continued to fight.

This was the scene where Ezekiel and Trey found him.