Chapter 325 - Empty Threats

Lillian got up from the muddy ground. Her elegant gown had already turned into a rag. There were mud and blood everywhere, the gown was ripped in several places.

Her hair was also a mess. There were lumps of mud in her hair, and also dust and grass. Her face was touched up with dried blood and dirt.

And not just her outer appearance, her inner feelings had also turned into a mess. She was no longer in her sane state, not that she ever was, but right now she had this hunger to take lives… as many as she could.

The dark sorceress began to emit the dark aura again. She only had eyes for Adeline and thus, she began to walk towards Adeline while still surrounding herself with the barrier. She didn't want the small fries to disturb her with their feeble attempts at magic attacks.

As she walked towards Adeline, she was mumbling and cursing Adeline, "I should have just killed you long ago… I should have killed you myself rather than sending you to the Devil's Cave. Then none of this would have happened. You made my life a living hell, Adeline! Now I am going to send you to hell. Today."

Adeline was also glaring at Lillian who was inching closer and closer to her. She was unfazed by the piercing stare of Lillian because she knew that the witches had put up a barrier. She knew that the barrier wasn't there just to prevent the guards from entering but also to prevent Lillian from exiting.

She trusted that the barrier would be able to hold Lillian down until one of the powerful witches recovered from their injuries. Even if Lillian managed to break the barrier, she had Theodore by her side so there was nothing to worry about.

Lillian stood in front of the barrier created by the Mystic Coven and touched it with both of her palms. The dark aura around her began to grow. She began to chant some spells and the barrier began to vibrate.

Seeing that, the other witches immediately got to work. They began to chant the spell to strengthen the barrier.

And the push and pull between the witches made the barrier to shake violently.

Even though the humans couldn't see the barrier, they could feel the effect. The land began to shake as if there was a mild earthquake.

"Theo, what is happening? Who is winning?" Adeline asked worriedly because just by looking at the witches raising their hands in the air and chanting something that she couldn't understand, she couldn't tell whether Lillian was successful or the Mystic Coven.

Theodore had a calm look on his face because he could see everything that was happening.

He then said in a relatively loud voice so that the others could also hear him. They all seemed restless. "The Mystic Coven is winning. Their barrier is stronger than you think. All of them channeled the positive energy from the forest and the river to create it so, it isn't that fragile."

Everyone sighed in relief, even the guards of Lillian. They hoped that all of this would come to an end soon. The anxiety was getting too much for some of them.

Adeline broke her stare from Lillian and glanced at Sybil and Tabitha, the ones who were Lillian's equals.

Tabitha was healed by the fellow witches but she was still lying unconscious. Sybil, on the other hand, was conscious but she had not completely healed yet.

After trying to break the barrier for a while, Lillian gave up. As Theodore said, the barrier was too powerful for her to break.

So she resorted to her classic manipulation instead. She glared at the squad leader and scolded him, "Kyle, why aren't you attacking that wench already? Isn't protecting me your sacred duty? Do you call this 'protecting'?"

The guard simply lowered his gaze and said, "I am sorry but they have an arrest warrant from the King himself. And we cannot go against the King."

"Well, I will tell you who you can't go against! It's me!" Lillian screamed at the top of her lungs, almost scaring a few of her guards.

She then shamelessly threatened them, "If you don't kill Adeline, then I am going to kill all of you. But before that, I am going to kill your family and make you watch them die a painful death."

Lillian gave a sinister cackle all of a sudden and spat on the ground. "Do you think that these few witches can go against me? Look… their High Priestess, who is supposed to be the strongest of them all, is already unconscious! It is only a matter of time I kill them all."

"So if you value your life and your family's lives then you will kill Adeline, now!" Lillian shouted again so that all of her guards would hear her.

Theodore was fumed hearing those words from that vile witch's mouth. He wanted to rip apart her filthy mouth with his bare hands. But unfortunately, he wasn't allowed to do that.

All the witches who were mending the barrier focused their attacks on Lillian who was badmouthing them.

All eleven of the witches attacked her at once and successfully broke the barrier that Lillian had around her. Instantly, some choked her, some stiffened her hands, while some stiffened her legs. They successfully rendered her immobile.

However, the guards were too scared to notice that. Some of the guards were already affected by her words. They were terrified, especially the old ones who knew how cunning and evil she really was.

And they began to take out their weapons and get into offensive positions. They were ready to go against the King's order if it meant that they wouldn't provoke that witch.

Adeline gestured them to stop and tried to talk them out of what they were going to do. "You don't have to do this. You don't have to go against the King's order just because she is giving empty threats to kill your family."

She pointed inside the barrier to show how eleven of the witches were attacking Lillian at once.

"Can't you see? She is just trying to manipulate all of you when she is already powerless. She can't even get out of there! She is going to get captured soon, so just stand down as I said at the beginning."

The soldiers glanced at the Queen again. They could see that Lillian was not moving at all while all of the other witches were pointing their palms towards her. They guessed that they had Lillian bound up by some kind of spell.

They slowly eased up and were putting their weapons away.

However, the dark sorceress was enraged by that action. Once again, the storm cloud loomed above all the witches.

Lillian was able to break free of the chokehold and her screams resounded throughout the area as if the voices were coming from those clouds. "Empty threats? Already powerless? What an insult to a mighty witch like me."

She also manage to free one of her palms and she screamed, "Let me back up my threats with my action then."

She made a swift movement with her palm as though she was twisting something.

That something happened to be one of the witch's neck who was right beside Lillian.. Her neck twisted with a crack sound and she collapsed on the ground… lifeless.