Chapter 828 - CHAOS

"Do you need my help to tame her?" Asmodeus asked coquettishly, she twirled a strand of her long hair and glanced at Serefina beside her, who didn't show any emotions on her face. "Serefina, you really have a bad taste in men. He slept with countless red haired witches when you and she-" she nodded at Lilac. "-weren't around."

Asmodeus watched Serefina face closely for any change in expression, but there was nothing on her face which indicated that her words had hurt her.

"Cih," she clicked her tongue. "You are not fun at all."

Meanwhile, Mammon whispered something into Chiron's ears, his voice eerily low, but whatever he said, it made him very happy, perfectly aligning with the idea in his mind.

"Why don't you give him a taste of his own medicine? Let him suffer in the same way he has made you suffered all this time? He deserves it." Mammon chuckled when Chiron's grip on Lilac's neck tightened. "You lost your mate, he ordered someone to kill your mate and your people right before your eyes, why don't you let him feel it too?" Mammon tilted his head and glanced at Leviathan, who began to approach them and stood on the other side of the chief of the centaurs.

"Don't you envy him? He had everything that you don't; a beautiful mate, a territory to rule, people at his back and call… but, what had he done to deserve all of that?" Leviathan whispered to Chiron. "He is the cruelest and most bloodthirsty person that you ever know, but he got everything that he didn't deserve…"

The two of them kept mumbling words after words, until the end of it, they simultaneously whisper-talked to him.

"Kill her, let him suffer…"

"Kill her, like the way he killed yours…"

"Kill her…"

"Kill her…"

The sounds of their voices were very annoying in Chiron's ears, but they voiced out what was inside his mind and heart.

All of that was true…

He should do it, right?

Right.

He didn't deserve a mate, right?

Right.

"No, don't listen to them, you are not like this," Lilac's soft voice couldn't manage to reach Chiron, no matter what she said.

Under the influence of the muttering sounds in his ears and his murky mind, Chiron raised the dagger high, his roar thundered in that clearing and his expression contorted painfully.

Seeing what Chiron was going to do, Jedrek didn't even have time to think when he leapt forward and shifted into his white beast, while behind him Kace, the beast and the two centaurs were shouting something that he couldn't comprehend.

His ears ringing and his heart thumped thunderous in his chest, when he realized he wouldn't make it in time…

No…

He couldn't lose his mate this way.

Not after when he realized he needed her.

Selene… this is too cruel…

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On the other side of the meadow, Raine closed her ears with both of her hands and closed her eyes when she saw Chiron raising the dagger in his hand and was about to stab Lilac right in her heart.

This was what Raine had seen in her vision.

But, what was the point now when she couldn't prevent this from happening?

Stop…

Stop.

Please stop!

Raine didn't want to see anyone getting hurt again, especially not the person that was so dear to her. She wanted to stop this!

She must do something, but what? She didn't even have any courage even to open her eyes. To watch another life slipping right in front of her and she was helpless to do something.

Please stop all of this!

"Raine?"

Raine felt someone shook her body and faintly calling her name.

"Raine!"

Her voice got a little bit louder, but Raine still refused to open her eyes.

"Raine!"

This time Raine's eyes fluttered open and she found Hope's face in front of hers. She was talking about something hastily.

"…did it?" Hope asked when Raine put down her hands from covering her ears.

"What? Did what?" Raine frowned, she didn't catch the first few words of her question.

"How did you do this?" Hope asked excitedly, as she moved aside revealing what was happening behind her.

In the meadow, not too far from them, the place where Chiron was holding Lilac as a hostage and the two devils whispering in to his ears, Raine could see three white beasts rushing forward in a flash, until they looked like a streak of white haze.

And one of the white beasts, which Raine was sure that it was Jedrek, took Lilac away from Chiron's grip.

However, that was not the thing that made Raine dumbfounded, but the fact that aside from the three white beasts and Calleb's beast along with the three guardian angels, no one could move.

The seven devils, the centaurs and also Eaton's beast, froze in their place, as if the time was stopped only for them.

"I stopped the time again?" Raine muttered to herself.

"You have done this before?" Hope asked in awe, her eyes widened in amazement when they watched how Lilac was saved and Jedrek shifted back to his human form as he carried Lilac away from that place.

However, it happened very fast, and before Kace, Torak or Calleb dug their sharp talons onto the devils' flesh, the time started ticking again and everything went as normal as it would.

The two devils backed away just in time before the two white beasts could attack them and the chief of the centaur stabbed the dagger onto his own stomach, since Lilac was no longer in his hands, he was too late to realize it and was not able to stop himself in time.

An earth- shattering wail could be heard when Chiron fell to the ground from the injury that he made by himself, it was Carina, who immediately rushed to the front and was about to reach for Chiron, but Zarrn stopped her.

Everything happened too fast and turned chaotic, to the extent Raine and Hope were left dumbstruck to focus their attention on any particular person or any particular person's move.

At the same time, the first light of the sunrise started seeping through the trees behind them, illuminating the meadow in it's wake.