Chapter 153: Tear Bead
"Whoever is behind these attacks, they took away both the guardian bloodlines and the Wish Jewels but the guardian beasts were the only thing they couldn’t steal. We need to get those beasts out of those Portal Halls before the enemy can figure out a way
to do it on their own." Annalise was looking at her husbands with hope-filled eyes as she reminded them of tge guardian beats that were still somewhere hiding in those destroyed portal halls.
The dark lords shared a serious look with each other before Valerius finally turned his attention to her and spoke. "Annalise, don’t you know why the attackers weren’t able to take away the guardian beasts when they are nearly the most powerful and ancient blood linked to the portals but also the most vulnerable ones among all three guardians of a portal?"
"Of course, I’m aware. It’s because the guardian beasts are bonded with the portals and it’s impossible to separate the two without hurting the beasts. If the attacker would have tried to force them apart, he would have killed the beasts in the process, making his effort pointless." Annalise was pretty aware of the consequences of separating a beast from its bonded Portal.
"Still..." She continued as she looked right into Valerius’s ice-blue eyes, "... We got little snow out of that bond... We can try for the others..."
"And you needed to kill it for that, Annalise." Valerius’ deep and firm voice made her words falter as tge man stared back into her eyes. "Did you already forget? Your familiar died and only got separated from the portal after you revived it."
Annalise felt her entire body turning stiff as the realization dawned on her, she had completely forgotten about that part. It was indeed the little lion’s death that helped in the breaking of its bond with the Portal.
Damien’s hold tightened around her waist while she felt warmth radiating from the petal imprinted on her wrist next to her Moon Thread. The rest of her husbands were trying to support her emotionally in their own way but neither of them dared to say anything... mostly because Valerius was only speaking the truth.
"If you are confident..." Valerius’s words pulled her attention back toward the first dark lord as he continued, "... we can help and subdue all the remaining guardian beasts. We will kill them... but are you fully confident that you can revive all of them?"
Annalise felt her breathing becoming heavier as the entire attention and burden of the current predicament shifted on her. She opened her mouth to say something but no words were leaving her mouth. She clearly saved the little snow lion by mere coincidence, how could she then take the huge responsibility of saving the rest of the guardian beasts?