Chapter 223: A Restless City

"Are you fucking in heat?"

Leo’s swear landed before even Moon’s feet landed on the grass of the Lost Realm.

And for a second Moon’s face blanked out with the sheer amount of insult in his words.

And he stood still against the four men, whose eyes were anything but normal.

Moon’s frown deepened.

Something is wrong...

Something is definitely wrong...

Something was indeed wrong...

And it had not started just now.

Going back to last night—

Just after Moon fainted, Nox’s and Ugo’s knots also receded.

Suddenly, a sharp claw grabbed Nox by the neck and yanked him backwards.

Nox snapped out of his daze.

When he turned, he was met with a pair of bright red eyes burning with fury.

"Leo... calm down..." he murmured, quickly getting to his feet.

Before Leo could pounce on Moon again, Nox activated his formation while he was still sane.

The formation on the ground flashed, instantly transporting Moon back to the inn.

But the moment Leo saw the empty patch of grass where Moon had been lying, he lost control. His body shifted back into his wolf form, and he lunged at Nox.

Axe let out a furious growl as his nose twitched and his armored fur bristled out again.

"Block... break the formation!" Ugo shouted.

Leo’s claws lunged to tear into Nox, but Nox swung his hand out just in time, shattering the transportation array and completely blocking their return path.

He knew they would try to go back to the inn.

He also knew that they would shift again or lose control entirely.

It wasn’t for any other reason than that their own desires had not yet been satisfied.

Leo was already on the verge of losing his mind while he was waiting, and Axe was trembling from time to time, struggling to suppress his own instincts.

So, when he saw Moon faint, and the moment his knot receded, he activated the formation before he, too, lost control.

And that was only the beginning.

For the rest of the night, the brothers shifted back and forth between their human and wolf forms incessantly.

Rio even went berserk and froze the entire pond and its surroundings, sending ice spikes in every direction.

He even injured himself, leaving deep cuts across his own flesh.

The entire islet was turned upside down by their running, biting, and fighting with one another.

Trees were uprooted, while bushes and shrubs were scattered everywhere.

Their only comfort was that there were no humans on the islet.

It was barren.

But barren didn’t mean invisible.

With Nox’s limited power, there was no way he could maintain a formation capable of concealing an entire islet.

Gradually, the disturbance became visible in the sky mirror.

And someone noticed.

And by dawn, there was a bunch of enforcers who came to search, only to find nothing.

The area was completely deserted.

That was because, just when the brothers were nearly fighting one another to death, Xiao Hong had emerged with the other spirits for a brief moment.

They fed the brothers the calming pills Moon had given them.

When the pills took effect and they gradually fainted from exertion, they were taken inside the Lupine Palace.

After being fed a great number of healing and rejuvenating pills, their hideous wounds were patched up and the cuts healed.

However, they only regained consciousness much later.

Even now, the scent of their mate remained intoxicating, yet dangerous for them.

The wolf instincts wanted nothing more than to pull the man before them into their arms and lose themselves in another frenzy.

And that was precisely what they were struggling to suppress.

Inside the Elysian Pack’s Inn–

The Elysian Crown Alpha was pacing back and forth in his luxurious room.

His expression was grim, and every now and then, his gaze drifted towards the silver-grey wolf curled up near the window, then beyond it, towards the distant West Emerald Sea, where the little unnamed islet lay.

Last night, he had witnessed a bizarre sight through the sky mirror.

A great disturbance.

Just after the blood moon shed its crimson glow and turned silver again, the trees on the islet began slamming into the ground, one after another, while a large area suddenly became covered in ice.

His vision through the mirror was limited, as a fire had already broken out in the canopy.

Flames and thick smoke obscured whatever was happening below.

For a moment, he suspected it was those defectives and the Witch.

However, his Phantom Guard soon sent word that the Witch was at the inn.

They checked and confirmed.

They were certain of it.

Though the five brothers were out of sight, but...Without their mate, they shouldn’t have been there...

Could it be some Western Sea Vultures?

That was what they called the rogues who ventured into the sea.

He couldn’t be certain, but he immediately dispatched the enforcers.

However, by the time the enforcers finally received permission from the West Blackwood Pack Alpha, dawn had already arrived.

The place was deserted and ruined.

Alpha Elysian’s frown deepened, forming dark lines across his forehead.

Knock!

Knock!

"Come in," he growled in a deep, tired voice.

As the Elysian Beta entered the room, the gloomy atmosphere and the overwhelming dominant scent of an Eclipse Wolf hit him.

He frowned, and his expression grew even more tense.

Seeing his reaction, the Alpha immediately stopped pacing.

"How is the situation?"

The Beta shook his head.

"Not good, my lord. A few have regained their senses, but they are still quite rabid. They attacked two healers when they tried to approach."

The Alpha exhaled sharply. "I hope they will all be alright by tomorrow. We cannot keep postponing the trial."

"I’m afraid there are still many who haven’t recovered. Some high-grade wolves haven’t even shifted back into their human forms."

The Alpha frowned.

"I announced it so many times, yet they didn’t take any precautions? Those arrogant fools only know how to show their dominance?" he growled in frustration.