Chapter 37
Third person’s POV
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The urgent intelligence, carrying the chill of the ice plains, slapped against the oak desk. Lycan Erasmus’s claws pierced the parchment, revealing the mark of the “Dragon Ash & Western Tribes Alliance.”
Moonlight, streaming through the parliamentary hall’s wolf–head emblem window, cast fractured shadows across his ashen face.
He immediately notified Lycan Gamma Elias Kell and the werewolf generals remaining in the capital to convene at
ne palace.
Among them were Ulri
and Velda.
Lycan Gamma Elias’s forehead glistened with cold sweat.
“The Western Tribes have allied with the Dragon Ash Kingdom to annex our southern borders? How could this happen? They only recently signed a non–aggression peace pact with us.”
“Our warriors led by Alpha Lance have already taken losses in battle. Food supplies are likely insufficient now. How can they possibly hold the line?” another voice added.
“Lycan Erasmus, it’s probably too late to send reinforcements now. We failed to detect this intelligence. It seems all our informants in the Dragon Ash Kingdom and Western Tribes have been eliminated,” said a royal elder anxiously.
“It does seem too late to dispatch aid now,” another elder echoed.
Erasmus closed his eyes, and the events of ten days ago flashed before him.
Adelaide knelt before the throne, a wolf’s–head dagger pinning a bloodstained letter bearing the Warscar Training Camp’s wolf–paw emblem.
She had claimed, “Ulrik’s military honors are stained with civilian blood.” He had dismissed her claims as jealousy toward Velda.
He had even ordered the royal guard to restrict Adelaide from leaving the Frostfang Pack’s territory.
Little did he know she had spoken the truth.
“If I had believed her ten days ago, immediately dispatched reinforcements, and arranged for supplies, we might have stood a chance against the alliance of the Western Tribes and the Dragon Ash Wolf Kingdom,” he thought.
Velda and Ulrik exchanged glances. The opportunity they had awaited had finally arrived.
They had used their merits at the Bloodscar Border to secure Lycan Erasmus’s favor and
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Should they distinguish themselves on the southern border battlefield, they would become influential werewolf generals.
Then, no one would dare mock them.
Ulrik could not forget the humiliation of their bonding ceremony.
ག་བྱ་
“Very well. Ulrik shall be the chief commander, and Velda the deputy. Depart at once with a hundred thousand werewolf warriors,” Erasmus ordered.
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