Chapter 128: Something Happened, Didn't It?

* Happy new month of November!

[SICARIO]

"No, Ella. I'm looking for my Mistress. I haven't heard from her since she locked the mind links. The only thing I felt was her pain, which she had blocked, but I guess it was too much if the pain broke the barriers and got to me.

"Before you ask me if I can track her, I can't. She commanded me not to use magic to track her. So, the hidden dungeons, do you know where they are?" Malika asked Elodie, her face making it seem like she was a little too close to killing someone.

Elodie looked at Malika, the worry on her woman's face making her realize that losing Hawi wasn't in the cards for the both of them.

She could see that it was more than just about power and loyalty, and whatever it was, Elodie would work on making sure Malika got what she wanted.

"The other dungeons are built in the tunnels under Sicario. But even if we found an entrance to the tunnels. There is just no way to get to her on time. That place is a literal maze. Only the Sicarios knew how to navigate them and as it is, they are all either dead or imprisoned.

"Jer also knows his way around the tunnels, but as you can see, Rukiya is about to punch his face into tomorrow if he isn't careful," Elodie said, adding the last part since she saw Rukiya glaring at Jer like he was wasting her time.

Rukiya Greyson was something else and perhaps the one person who could help her figure this out. But then would they be able to rely on Ruru's bond with Hawi or even the oath that Ruru had made to protect Hawi?

"If I start a search today, how long would it take me?" Malika asked, ignoring the last bit of Elodie's sentence.

Frankly, she couldn't give a fuck if Malika ploughed Sicario using Jer's face. She would help her later on, but until then Hawi was her greatest priority at the moment.

"If you go with a marker, then it could take you a year at the very least. Those dungeons are complex to find. They need a lot of expertise and given Jer has a switch on his side, there is a high chance they used magic to tamper with the directions.

"Which also means the maze is near impossible to solve, for someone who has never been there," Elodie said and Malika let out a frustrated low growl. Of the things she had expected, this certainly wasn't it.

She would have been okay, if she hadn't felt Hawi's pain and that was haunting her even more. She needed to get to Hawi because if she didn't, then there would be worse repercussions than she would ever be ready to face.

Patience was always Malika's thing, but right now as she started pacing around Elodie, constantly clicking like the world was about to end and there wasn't a thing she could do about it, Malika's patience had clearly taken a leave right then.

"If a strand of hair on her head goes missing—"

"She'll be fine. Besides, alpha Rukiya must already know that she's outnumbered right now," Elodie said, like she didn't know that the Greyson army was in the woods waiting for a signal from their alpha in case shit went sideways.

"Fine. Don't stay too long," Jer said before leaving.

"Goodness isn't his face punchable?" Malika asked once she was sure that it was just her, Elodie, and Rukiya

"I could bring him back, we check," Elodie said and Rukiya sighed. They were psychos and they had long accepted their fate and their reality, even though on some days, they were determined to make their fates worse.

Did they care though?

"Something happened, didn't it?" Rukiya asked as she looked at the frustrated protector before her. Malika was always the most composed person she had ever met and right now, composure seemed to be a thing of the past for the protector.

"I can't reach her, Rukiya. And there's a thousand dungeons in the tunnels. And she's hurt. I don't know what else to do. I can't use my magic because the witch we saw earlier will track it to me and blow my cover," Malika said frustratedly as she paced around.

"Malika. Slow down. And stop pacing, you're making me nervous," Rukiya said.

"If I don't pace, I'll start dropping bodies," Malika said angrily as she looked around.

"On second thoughts you can keep pacing. Perhaps she didn't want you distracted. Hawi does that a lot of times," Rukiya said

"You seriously don't believe that, do you?"

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[A/N]

* I vote they kidnap Jer and torture the information about the dungeons out of him. Surely it can't be that hard for three psychos, right?