Chapter 198: No Ordinary Human
’Was it my blood? Or the divine dagger inside of me?’ Mineah wondered, her gaze fixated on the now-lifeless rogue that lay before her, which had transformed back into its original form. She absorbed the dark magic from the lifeless rogue wondering what changes it would do to her body.
She looked around blinking several times when a shiver crept down her spine.
"Red..." she whispered her voice barely more than a breath, her attention captured by the crimson luminescence emanating from the bodies of the infected soldiers.
"Can you see it Lai?" she muttered as she eyed every infected soldier.
"Mine, we have to secure you and the rest. Come now," she heard Nikolai’s shaking voice. "I have already ordered a lockdown in this province. This infection must be contained before it reaches the Capital."
"I can still save some of them, Lai. Their aura is still red. If I’m right, then that means I..."
"Milady," Niran called. Only then did Mineah notice that Niran had already cast a protective barrier that separated the uninfected from the infected.
"We need to move now!" Raul’s reminder cut through her thoughts.
"But what about the rest?" Mineah asked. They couldn’t simply abandon the situation in its current state. The infection would only spread further affecting many innocent lives inside the province.
The little girl she held in her arms continued to sob as she stared in a particular direction. "Please save my mother," she begged through her cries.
Mineah followed the girl’s gaze, her heart clenching as she spotted the child’s mother, now succumbing to the infection. The dark veins marred her once-pale skin, her eyes a void of black as she moved like a rogue.