Thanks to someone's question, rumors started among the guests. Guin, who had rejoined Aileen, stood among the guests—glaring in all directions to find out who had dared to challenge the Alpha King.
"Aileen, do you know who just spoke?"
Aileen shook her head, indicating she didn't know. "I felt no magic fluctuations when he spoke. It seems like this guy is very skilled at spreading sound frequencies without exposing his presence."
Agreeing with her friend's opinion, Guin gave up trying to find out the identity of the owner of this mysterious voice. She was more interested in what kind of reaction the Alpha King would give.
"That's right. That was the first thing on my pack's mind. If there really was a spy who wanted to fool me, do you think it would be easy? To trick the Alpha King?" Lionel emitted an Alpha aura, along with the magic power flowing in his blood. An eye-blinding golden light emerged from his entire body, making everyone shield their eyes with their hands.
"Ugh!" Aileen felt her chest tighten as soon as the golden light hit her. Not only Aileen, but several guests also felt the same feeling of suffocation when exposed to the golden light as if this light was their mortal enemy.
Fortunately, Aileen's suffering did not last long because the Alpha King had now withdrawn his light magic.
"Aileen, are you okay?" Guin became worried and was shaken by Aileen's condition, which suddenly turned pale. She felt nothing when the light hit her. Instead, she felt warmth and lightened her internal injury. Guin didn't know what had happened, but the light just now had greatly helped her recovery.
"I'm aware that some of you are uncomfortable with my power just now. I inherited my mother's power—the Goddess of Light's power with the purification magic. What I did just now was light of clarification on a wide scale." Lionel turned to Jerome and using his mind-linking, asked Jerome to walk over to him.
Jerome obeyed with reluctant steps as if he cared for nothing. He stood to Lionel's right, still wearing the same expressionless face.
"As you know, the light of clarification can identify anyone who carries dark energy. My brother does not carry that dark energy, and he was not injured when hit by my light. On the contrary, there are some of you. I wonder how you got the invitation and passed through the portal gate."
Guin's eyes widened at the Alpha's words and glanced at Aileen in disbelief. "Aileen, you..." Guin was speechless, and a thousand questions swirled in her mind, but she knew she had to get Aileen out of there.
Dark force was the most hated force among everyone. And wizards possess this kind of force possessed powerful dark magic—the mortal enemy of light wizards. How in the world does Aileen have a dark magic while her parents were an elemental wizard?
"I'll get you out of here." Guin was worried that one of the guards would realize Aileen's dark force and capture her sister. However, Guin gave up her plans when she heard screams of pain from the other side. The people gathered in the area moved backward, exposing a man lying on the ground with his body twitching.
"It's you." Lionel's cold voice and murderous aura radiated strongly, making anyone who heard it shudder in horror. The Alpha King pointed the five fingers of his right hand at the man, creating the same light around the man in pain.
"Argh!!" The unknown man opened his mouth without making a sound as if someone was strangling him because Lionel was currently taking all his oxygen—his breath of life.
"I don't remember ever inviting creatures from the Underworld." As soon as Lionel closed his five fingers into a fist, the man exploded into black smoke that floated into the air. "All intruders must be annihilated."
The unexpected scene made Guin and Aileen shiver in cold sweat as if they were at the North Pole. They couldn't imagine what would happen if Lionel were an enemy and wanted to capture Aileen.
'What a terrifying power.' That was what Guin thought. It was no wonder that Lionel was the leader of the other world rulers, making her wonder ... would she be able to fight the Alpha King if she decided to oppose him one day?
"Well, I beg your pardon about the unpleasant incident just now. Ladies and gentlemen, this is my brother. Jerome Wildrigde—eldest son of Supreme Alpha Lyodreck and Goddess Ariadnne."
The entire Whitebridge pack cheered with joy as if the incident just now had never happened. The enthusiasm of the clan members quickly infected the surrounding people, except for the guests, who possessed dark energy and were still trying to regain their composure.
Aileen broke out in cold sweat, her knees became weak, and she would have fallen if Guin hadn't supported her. Guin helped Aileen walk out of the hall, headed to the nearest balcony, and sat Aileen on a long ceramic chair.
Guin put her arm around Aileen's shoulder as she stroked the girl's back patiently. There were so many questions in her mind, but her attention was on the health of her sister.
"Are you angry?" The first thing that came out of Aileen's mouth was thinking about Guin's feelings at the moment.
"No. I'm just shocked. You guys managed to hide it during the ten years I lived with you."
"That is not true." Aileen refuted Guin's sentence in a sad tone. "Father and mother are elemental wizards. They don't need to stay in the Unbound Havens to hide."
"I don't understand."
"Guin, I'm just like you. I was also found dying near their house, and they adopted me. One year later, you came into our lives."
"What? No, wait. Save your story for when we get home, okay? It's not a safe place here." Guin's proposal received a nod of approval from Aileen.
The two decided to sit there for a while until Aileen had the strength back to walk upright. All this time, Aileen lived using basic magic without mobilizing her inner core.
This was the first time her core collided with someone's core that contained such a pure and holy light element―a complete contrast to Aileen's dark force. Luckily, the light Lionel released earlier was only a light of clarification and not a light of purification. If it were purification, Aileen might not be able to live to see the sun tomorrow.
"I feel better already. We'd better go back," suggested Aileen as she stood up, ready to return to the main hall.
"Why should we? The party was so boring."
"I… I promised someone to be his dance partner." For some reason, Aileen became nervous when answering her sister's question.
"What? When? Who? Do I know the guy?"
"That..." Aileen wanted to tell her friend but was worried that Guin would become emotional once she found out who had asked her hand. If only that person hadn't caused her pain like before...
"Let's go back." Aileen distracted her friend by taking Guin back to the main hall. She knew Guin still wanted to interrogate her about the foreign man who asked her to dance, but Aileen continued her sentence first before Guin could protest. "The wind tonight makes me cold."
Just like Aileen loved Guin and wanted to protect her, Guin also has the same feelings as her. In the end, Guin couldn't help but grant Aileen's request, and the two walked towards the main hall.
However, the two friends were surprised when everyone rushed into the open field with an enthusiastic atmosphere as if they were about to witness an interesting attraction.
What's going on?