CHAPTER 365: MERCY ISN’T AN OPTION

The few vampires camped on the corner, fearing the idea of the large serpent attacking them. They were still confused by the entire situation, unable to process how could a woman turn into a large serpentine and how despite being a human they could go toes to toes with their King, the one they knew could easily take care of hundreds upon hundreds of pure bloods alone.

While the others were speechless when seeing hands appearing from thin air, trying to bring away the woman that their King had chosen. When the second later Arabella had swept her hand, the vampires flinched as blood splattered all over their faces, sending shivers down their spine as they looked up to find the skin walkers had been cut to halves, falling down like dominoes.

Arabella swept her green eyes over the rest of the skin walkers and when they locked eyes, the entire group froze over. Their blood chilled when they looked into Arabella’s eyes, the darkness, the bloodlust, and the expression that shows how much she had been merciful towards them and how the mercy is gone completely.

Standing up on her feet, Arabella guarded her sister and raised her hands again. She didn’t allow for the skin walkers to snap out of the surprise and continued her attack one by one. Burning the sorcerers on her left and pouring water over the right that melted their skin.

Screams erupted and soon enough some even began to turn their backs and run away toward the window, smashing for an escape which Arabella didn’t follow. She didn’t feel the need to chase for the ones that had ran away but the ones who didn’t are the ones who had to face the consequences of their own actions.

Seeing some who hadn’t been able to flee on time, Arabella made her way towards them. She stood before the skin walkers who were holding to the box of the white liquid, her shadow towering their body.

"F- Forgive me, Great Witch! Forgive me! Please mercy on us! We won’t attack anymore!"

But Arabella looked to their eyes, her green eyes piercing as she spoke, "When others have asked you for mercy, had you given them?"

The skin walkers’ faces turned pale upon her question, unable to reply and that response on its own was enough for her to lower her hands again, "Only those prepared to be killed would kill."

Blood splattered against her cheeks at once as her wind moved from her palms. The sight of blood made her queasy but this served enough warning to the people who had wanted her and her sister, a lesson that she wasn’t going to show mercy if they disrupt the peace she had with her loved ones ever again.

Slowly, Arabella wiped away the traces of blood and rushed to her sister’s side. She looked at the burn scar and sighed in relief when she realized that the wound won’t grow.

Her hands hovered, "Let’s still try the healing magic."

But Ariel didn’t immediately move. She stared at her face for a while and realizing there was still perhaps blood over her face.

A bit worried that even her sister would fear her, she hurriedly wipe the marks off her face and healed Ariel’s hands but upon seeing this, Ariel reached her hand forward and wiped the rest of her blood with her good hands.

"I heard from Alice that you have found someone who you wish to settle with and that he’s a vampire."

"He’s a good man," Arabella answered and her sister smiled.

"I know you would choose a good man and that’s the least of my worries. If he treats you well, I don’t care who he is, but if he doesn’t treat you well, we could go far away and live just the two of us."

Arabella smiled. How she missed talking to her sister like this. How they would speak softly and tease each other, how every burden on her shoulders seemed to ease the moment they both talked to each other.

"And that person now is fighting to protect," Ariel drawled as she turned around. "I can finish the rest with my own medicine. You should go now, to his side."

"No, I’ll stay until you’re healed."

"Bella," Ariel called, firmly holding to her hands, "You have protected me, now you can go. Besides if I’m in danger, I’ll yell for your name and you will come to my side at once right?"

Arabella hesitated as she looked at her sister’s wound but with this much burn, the rest can be taken care with the herbs she smelled coming from the packet her sister had pulled.

"I’m sorry," Bella whispered and her sister shook her head, as though refusing the idea of her apology. Seeing that, she strengthen her resolve and turned around to find Cassius who had hovered above the serpent, his hand aiming to throw his blade to one of Alice’s eyes but an odd scale grew over her eyes, deflecting his sword until it was flung far enough to the wall behind him.

Seeing this Cassius raised his eyebrows.

He had attacked the snake all over its body. He had attacked its neck, head, body, and even tail. Now he tried the eyes and the tongue yet nothing seemed to work.

It wasn’t that he hadn’t used all his power into it, it was those gleaming scales that kept a strong barrier that stopped any attacks from harming its flesh.

He raised his hands and green fire immediately appeared all over the snake’s body, enveloping its entire form yet once again nothing work as the scale seems to be against the heat.

"Those scales cannot be broken," said Noah who had appeared under him.

Cassius slowly got back to the floor, eyeing the wounds all over Noah’s body and especially the one on his chest that would soon bring death to the young vampire.

"You protected us but you don’t seem quite willing." Noah remarked and he raised his eyebrows.

"My wife is grave danger due to your stupidity."

Noah furrowed his eyebrows, "I do not wish to bring this problem here either. But Alice, she’s not the type to care whether there are innocents who would be harmed on the way or not."

Ignoring the statement, Cassius eyed the serpent that had snapped its mouth towards them and with quick reflex, he jumped backward and shouted to Noah, "What is the snake’s weakness?"

"Nothing," answers Noah with a heavy breath. "The scales, damn it," he curses when the wound aches and his sight began to swerve. "The scales can’t be weakened by anything. If it touches the water, it gets even more stronger."

"How nice so it is invisible. Lovely advice you got there," Cassius clicked his tongue when Noah sighed.

"I didn’t mean that there is no method in killing it. There was once a note on the people who had successfully killed the snake. It seems while protecting one important spot, the other scales weaken and that turns into a weak spot for attacks."

Cassius looked at Noah and hummed while he jumped backward nimbly backward and above to dodge the serpent’s mouth that had continuously snap to bite him.

It didn’t help that the poison from the dagger was still making parts of his body weak.

Noah himself speaks as if he could try and help but in such situation where he was wounded so severely, it didn’t seem like he would serve a good chance in weakening the snake of to get the spot and kill the snake.

"Cassius!" Arabella yelled from the side and upon seeing the tail of the snake that was ready to swipe he left from the ground, Cassius disappeared from the sky and appeared beside her, quickly bringing her away while Arabella reach out her hand and used her wind to cut the snake’s tail.

She frowned severely when seeing that her attacks didn’t work and how the scales had gleamed as if knowing that nothing could ever weaken it.

"The boy said to concentrate on one spot on the snake’s body and attack it with the most damage so it would weaken the rest of its barrier."

Arabella nodded at once, "Then I can try kill it while you weaken it."

"No, you’re staying where your sister is," Cassius remarked firmly, refusing the idea of allowing her to fight.

Bella frowned, "You saw how I was able to stand on my own feet didn’t you?"

"But when I’m here, I would rather that you stay far away and let me be the one to fight." Cassius’s red eyes weren’t firm with anger but with worry and seeing those gaze how could she have the heart to be firm and reject his advice?

Still... that doesn’t mean that she would just stay back and watch. It was a job for two people and Atlas wasn’t conscious while Noah was wounded badly to the point that he now struggle to stand.

"There is only me who can help you," Arabella held his hand firmly, "I promise to protect myself first so let me help you."