บท 66: The Mage Council

It was not only the vampires who are having a talk, somewhere in an unknown land a huge tower which stood as tall as the clouds in the sky.

The dark clouds got lit with lightning and the rumble of thunder caused vibrations in the wall of houses on the ground.

In the highest room of the tower a huge round table, 36 people were sitting around it, each and every one of them is wearing a dark blue robe and all of them are releasing a very powerful aura.

The air in the room is tense and everyone looked furious.

"Who did it"

One of them asked with a husky/harsh voice, for the voice it could be said it belongs to an old man

"We know nothing"

A woman said with frustration in her voice

"They used our people's dead bodies to give a message to the world, DESPICABLE"

One of them shouted and smacked his hand on the table.

"Their body was brutally torn apart, from what I can tell, it must be a Werebeast species, probably from the family of wolves, given by that name"

An old woman sad with a frown on her face.

"Lone Wolf, my ass, whoever it was is clearly trying to stir up the supernatural, look at all the signs, the robbery of blue silver, auctioning it, then massacring all the mages and Insectivours, and every single thing happened in that small city called Freyton. Whoever this Lone Wolf is, he or she has a purpose and we cannot rule that out"

Another old man said.

This group of mages only have three young looking people and all of them are women, not that they are actually young but they use magic to maintain their appearance. Most of the Mages only concentrate on magic and don't care about their appearance but some do.

"From what we have found so far is that this person is called Lone Wolf, if the name really specifies who it is then we are looking at a single person who is very strong, strong and fast enough to take down the Mages and Insectivours together, but that doesn't mean we are scared of him or her, we Mages may not be as strong as those creatures of dark but we have our magic and our ancestors blood in us, even though the mages that were killed were low level we cannot let this go, we lost many of them and we need to get them the justice they deserve"

An old man who is sitting on the head seat said and looked at the other 35 members of the Mage Council.

"Release a bounty, whoever brings us this Lone Wolf dead or Alive will be given a Purple rank magical item with 100 mana stones"

The head said with a firm commanding voice.

"The council is now dismissed, bring the scroll of command of the bounty to my quarters where I will sign it"

The head got up from his seat, followed by the other 35 council members, he then walked away with a frown on his face.

The other council members looked at each other.

"I will get the command scroll done, you all should spread the news about this Lone Wolf, let them hunt for this one"

A young looking female mage said and walked out of the room and followed behind the head of the Mage Council.

"Let's get going, whoever this Lone wolf is, I will burn them into cinders"

The angry Mage said and storm out of the room.

'Sighs all these fools'

A young female though and walked out, she is not like the others, she would abandon anyone for her life, she has been doing this for over 500 years, that's why she is named the Widow in the Mage council, she has one of the strongest warlock bloodlines in her veins, that's why she is respected in the Mage society, the thicker the bloodline of a powerful warlock in ones veins the more respected they are in the community.

And this Widow is one of them, she is also the youngest Mage in the Mage council even though she is already over 500 years old.

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The mages are not the only one who is going crazy over this Lone Wolf drama, the Insectivours are also very furious, in a land unknown, withered trees everywhere, the dark sky with a red color moon, today is one of those nights in this land that the creatures who practice dark magic become very powerful.

Far in this land's corner in a small anthill, green liquid came out of it, as we enter into one of these holes and go deeper we find out that this small ant hill from the outside it like a massive city from the inside, this is the home of the Insectivours.

They are very complex creatures, like other beings they are not born with human-like intelligence, to be exact, they are born as a single insect.

An Insectivour lays a million eggs in a sealed up cocoon. When the eggs hatch they come out as a larva just like any normal insect would do, but that's where all the normal part ends, the hatched Larva starts to eat their own siblings, the weaker ones and the eggs which haven't hatched are eaten until only one huge Larva is remaining, this Larva then goes to sleep and starts to transform and fuse with the cocoon itself.

After years and years passes the cocoon breaks and comes out a bunch of flying insects rush out, the number of these insects are in thousand but only one is in charge and that insect is the huge Larva that won the war in the cocoon.

When the winning Larva goes to sleep, the siblings it has eaten will start to go into a mutation and form into flying insects with no will, they are only zombies which are in control of the winning Larva which also turned into an insect.

But they are still far from achieving the intelligence compared to a human. Even though the winning Larva which turned into an Insect control the other zombie insect, it still needs to be careful because all their life is connected, now if a Zombie insect dies the main insect dies as well.

So how do they survive? They get out of the cocoon and try to find a group just like their's. When one is successful, the two insects that have the mind of their own connect their life with each other, this allows them to get rid of the connection between them and their zombie siblings, they then make their zombie siblings fight with each other and eat each other until one of them is left which has grown powerful enough to be alive on its own, sadly its still a Zombie and it gets eaten slowly by the two insects that have their own mind, once they are done eating they go in search for insects just like them and fuse with them.

This goes on until they form a group of a million and are finally able to make themselves turn into a human and have human-like intelligence.