Just as Abby lifted her hand to knock on the door, Mire’s clear voice reached her ears as the door
swung open from inside, leaving her stunned for a moment.
“You didn’t disappoint me,” the witch uttered, sounding too casual as if she had long expected her
visit.
The moment the door fully opened, Abby could see her sitting at the same table they sat at the day
Abby came to consult her for the first time.
The girl took long strides to the said table as she dropped into the chair across from the witch.
“I know you have some questions,” Mire prompted when Abby didn’t say anything even after she
entered the hut as the door closed behind her.
Hearing this, Abby didn’t have any doubts that Mire had been indeed waiting for her.
Without wasting any more time, the girl immediately dived into the topic that was bothering her the
most. “Do you know anyone named Calpin?”
“Calpin?” Mire repeated after Abby as she raised a brow at her.
“My mother told me about him,” she borated a little, trying to make Mire understand why she was
hung up on this bedtime story her mother told her.
She exined how Riley implicitly warned her about this man time and again.
After she was done talking, Abby didn’t notice how she held her own breath as Mire wouldn’t say
anything but kept staring at her.
“So?” Abby started slowly. “Was it just a luby with no particr meaning?” She asked Mire out loud
when she couldn’t tolerate the suspense anymore.
And how surprised she was when the witch finally opened her mouth. “The man in your mother’s
bedtime stories is a real person.”
“A real person?” Abby couldn’t help but repeat after her.
She thought about it a lot and was mentally prepared for both possible oues. One being Riley,
Abby’s mother, just choosing a random yet single name for the bad guy in all her lubies.
The second being her mother was talking about a real dark wizard who stopped at nothing to fulfill his
own greed for power.
Still, when the witch confirmed that the person named Calpin was real, she couldn’t help but widen her
eyes.
On the other hand, the witch still had this nonchnt expression on her face as she proceeded to
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answer Abby’s earlier question. “Yes, he is a dark wizard.”
“A dark wizard?” Abby couldn’t help but gasp out loud as Mire began to clear her doubts about
Calpin one by one.
Apparently, what her mother told was true and not some just made up story like she half expected
it to be.
There was indeed someone named Calpin in the past. He was a magic user, no, a dark magic user to
be precise.
He resorted to all kinds of evil things just to be the most powerful being in this realm.
More or less, the same as what her mother warned her of.
Only Mire didn’t feel the need to hold back anything at all like Riley as she poured out everything she
knew about him when Abby asked her to.
“So what happened to him?” Abby couldn’t help but ask this when she thought about the person who
was instigating those rogues to attack in different parts of this kingdom.
Her mother told her he was subdued by a witch before she trapped him inside a cave and started
guarding it, so he wouldn’t be able toe outside.
It was a perfect bedtime story and seemed as if her mother changed some parts to amodate a ten
year old kid like her.
But she felt the need to confirm every single part she remembered about that dark magic user.
With this thought, Abby exined the rest of the things she could recall about Calpin from her mother’s
stories to Mire.
“The part of him being locked up in a cave wasn’t made up either,” the witch dered, sounding
nonchnt yet again.
The more Abby listened, the more she could confirm that the person Riley talked about was real and
dangerous even.
That man literally stopped at nothing to get what he wanted until he had to be detained in a cave like a
wild beast.
He seemed really dangerous and Abby couldn’t help but think about the unknown enemy Micah was
fighting right now.
But she couldn’t decide if she should divulge the things Micah found out from his investigation about
the other Calpin in front of Mire when she sounded too casual like this.
After all, that piece of information seemed a little confidential and she couldn’t reveal it just like
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However, Mire wasn’t done telling her part as she continued to recount everything she knew about
Calpin.
“Not many people knew about this dark magic user,” the witch said, grabbing Abby’s wandering off
attention again.
Because magic users were not reallymon in this realm until one could only find one or two witches
in this whole kingdom, not many people knew how Calpin wreaked havoc in his huns for
power.
Chancing upon even one witch in one’s lifetime was very rare.
Hearing this, Abby recalled that her mother also told her this part.
She also said only witches knew about Calpin as the legend was only passed down to people in their
circle, who were none other than witches.
Just like the tradition of guarding Calpin’s cave was the sole responsibility of the
Iches from the next generations of the witch who subdued that dark magic user. Which was also why
Hanna, her older sister, didn’t know anything about it.
After hearing the story, Abby fell into a dilemma. If both were the same person, then it was impossible
for this dark magic user to pull strings from inside the cave…
Abby couldn’t believe she spent the whole day at the witch’s hut talking about this and that.
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So when her maids knocked on the door and informed her that it was already evening and she missed
lunch, the girl immediately bade farewell to Mire, hoping that Micah would word to her by now.
Thest time the rogues attacked them, while they were on their way to the Red River pack, it didn’t
take the King and his warriors too long to subdue them..
Thinking up to this, Abby urged Alyssa and Reyna to rush the coachman to move the carriage faster
and before twenty minutes could pass, she found herself running to their new guest room.
But there was no news from the ck w pack yet, even so Abby didn’t let it get to her head.
Since the distance between the two packs was too huge, even though they were practically
neighboring territories, they were facing some problemsmunicating with each other effectively.
Not to mention they had gone incognito right now and had fewer people to spare, just to pass
casual news.
She stayed awake until midnight for any possible news, but after that, because ofck of sleep the
previous night, she fell asleep shortly after Reyna left to sleep while Alyssa stayed behind to keep her
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However, her sleep wasn’t peaceful as she tossed and turned on the bed all night. And when a soft yet
rhythmic knocking reached her ears early in the morning, she woke up in an instant.
She dashed to the door in hopes Micah was back.
Only she couldn’t see Micah, safe and well, while a royal warrior could be seen waiting for her outside
their room.
“Mydy, the King sent a word for you,” the warrior said before presenting her a small letter.
After dropping the letter in Reyna’s hands, who seemed to have reced Alyssa early in the morning,
the guard left swiftly, but not before bowing to his future queen once again.
Once Abby stepped back into the room, she immediately grabbed the missive from Reyna’s and
skimmed through it in seconds.
It seemed Micah couldn’t solve the problem in the ck w pack yet. In the letter, he told her he
would be back in a day or two.
Reading it, Abby couldn’t help but feel a bit worried.
The problem they thought would be resolved in one day extended to two days….
Now, Micah said it would take one or two more days….
Abby had a bad feeling about this….
Just how huge was the attack this time that they were being held back for days like this?
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Abby got a vague idea the next day when there was still no news from the King or his warriors… And
when they did receive another piece of news, it was anything but good.
She was taking a stroll in the back garden when she saw a couple of warriors rushing to the Alpha’s
room, looking like they had important news to deliver.
Abby followed them to the Alpha’s study with her maids in tow and the words that left the warrior’s lips
knocked the air out of her lungs.
On the third day of Micah’s impromptu departure, Alpha Samuel received a missive which read the
pack Micah in right now was under attack for the third consecutive day.
Even though there were several attacks during the past two days, there hadn’t been any news of the
royal warriors dying in the fights.
But this evening, they said two royal warriors lost their lives during the fight with the rogues while trying
to save the normal yet innocent pack members of the ck w pack.
The pack was being literally swarmed by the rogues… Meaning, the King’s location would be
compromised in no time if they hadn’t already discovered it.
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