Chapter 98
Which werewolf alone would want to battle away their lives to obtain the throne, when a hundred or more werewolves were necessary to defeat the king?
But as it was a tradition, it slowly transformed and gained another purpose. Nowadays, the battle royale could be held at the desire of two werewolves, and the winner of the fight could be granted a
wish from the king.
Of course, there were certain conditions to ensure fairness. The first condition was that the opponents must hold the same ranking, but they could still have different sub rankings.
The second condition was that there were limits to what their wish could be. They could not ask the king to punish or kill someone, or grant them official titles. It meant that the wish had to be a reasonable one.
The third condition was that the wish should be the same for both opponents. No matter who won the wish would remain the same, so they had to agree on it beforehand.
And the fourth condition was that it could not be a fight to the death. If the opponent that was about to lose surrendered, the winner would hold back and the fight would stop.
“I am sorry, but I am not interested!” Celia replied calmly. She did not want to make a show of herself or ask something from the king. Why should she comply with Yvonne?
“Well I wanted to ask you of your own volition, but it seems that you think you have the upper hand on me so you do not want to lose your advantage. Well even if you don’t want to participate, you still will.” Yvonne said confidently with a smirk.
“I doubt you could make me!” Celia stated unbothered and wanted to walk away. She was tired of such people like Yvonne and her sister, so she did not even want to think of what advantage she was referring to.
“Well I can and will. Do you know, you may think you are a part of your little Academy pack, burin fact technically you are still also a part of your previous pack until you graduate. So if your Luna orders you to take part in the fight in her stead you have to. And what a coincidence she already agreed for you to take part!” Yvonne explained laughing.
Celia did not respond, but her emotions were fluctuating slowly getting angry. Her chocolate brown eyes started to change their color, slightly darkening.
Really first her family, now even a woman from who knows where, thought she could use her how
he wanted.
Celia was not one to give into provocations, far from it. Even when nasty rumors about her spread in the Academy, she minded her own business. She was accustomed, from years of living in her pack, with people having wrong assumptions, so she never fought back. She never bothered to do so.
But now this woman, who she did not remember wronging, was not only provoking her, she was even colluding with her sister to ridicule her.
She knew for certain that her sister wanted to harm her, because she was forced to participate in the battle at the order of the Luna, but her sister was not obligated to nominate someone else to participate in her stead.
Brianna could have simply refused the battle royale and that would have been the end of it, so from her sister’s side it was intentional. But she could not understand what Yvonne had against her.
What could have been the problem, when they had not discussed at all after the initial greeting?
Either way, she considered it would be better to just go through the battle and be done with it. There was no point in thinking further. She also could not make a ruckus, even if she wanted to, as she did not want to embarrass his highness. She was his partner for this evening, and most likely the two had already prepared and informed the officials of the battle, so it could not be retracted.
Later she will rescind her place in her previous pack, so another situation like this would not occur. This was her oversight, her fault for not cutting the ties clearly, whether it was with Rayan or her
pack.
Looking a bit more scrutinizing at Yvonne, she could tell from her appearance that she was quite a high ranking werewolf, but the aura Yvonne was releasing, did not scare her. It was only tingling.
like someone was tickling her.
For as long as she could remember, she never felt frightened by another werewolf, never felt the need to submit to anyone. She only showed her neck in submission, when her parents did at pack meetings. Even towards the council members, she did not submit. The only werewolf she was pot certain of was his highness, he never released his aura directed towards her, and so she wasn’t sure.
“Alright miss Yvonne. Let’s hold the battle royale. I assume you and my dear sister already picked the wish. When do you want to battle?” Celia asked resigned to the situation, but still retaining anger
in her voice.
“How about now? In fact, in the ballroom they are already clearing the center of the dance floor. We also have some more comfortable clothes prepared in the bathroom!” Yvonne said smiling, satisfied. with the results. Although, she had begun to be slightly wary of Celia, seeing her darkening eyes. It
nade the hair on the back of her neck stand
- up.
