"What? The Ashen Queen is… wouldn't that mean that they already launched an attack? Wait, oh, my God… where's Nick?" Darius grew anxious, but it didn't help that the Frost King suddenly exploded in an aura that was becoming of a king. The pack mother was thrown to the ground as the Frost King forced himself to seize whatever control he had left.
The whole ice castle began to tremble, the walls cracking the more Ilya tried to take back his power over the crest that had grown independent. Moreover, the glass copy kept on cracking from the attack of the Ashen Queen. Soon, the heat started to break into the ice castle, and Ilya fell to his knees.
Darius got up and held onto the vampire. When Ilya's body combusted into blue flames, Darius tried to use the remaining white flames to keep Ilya from dying. Even if it hurt because he had no more connection to Nicholai, he didn't want to stand by and watch someone die.
