The Devil Withinn - Chapter 263

Alana tried to hold her smirk of victory that began to form in her mouth. She was casting a long spell and she didn’t want to mess it all up just because of a single smirk.

But then, who could blame her?

The hardships she endured for the past few days were finally being rewarded!

Tightening her hold on her necklace that consisted of a very valuable lone curse, she tried to calm her boiling excitement. But then, it resulted in her hand trembling instead.

Finally! Finally! After all those days of waiting! Of searching for her! She finally found her!

That wrench suddenly disappeared these past few days and it was just in time when her Blood week ended too. Hell, she really couldn’t believe that even after turning the whole academy inside out, she wasn’t able to catch so much as Inna’s shadow!

She originally wanted to trap her, torture her, embarrass her, and scare her away so that she’d never even think of returning to the academy but all her preparations were ruined because that idiotic barbarian didn’t even show up!

Just thinking about all the money and connections she used for such a small thing was enough to make her blood boil in anger!

Now, she only had this one spell left that will most likely expire the next day…

Well, at first, she was close to giving up. If she weren’t showing up any time today, her back up plan was to just simply destroy her on the day of the tournament. But to think she’d be able to get a glimpse of Inna running when she was on the way to the training grounds to practice…

Now that she finally found her, all the annoyance she felt before soon turned into excitement.

Thank the heavens that she knew a speed-enhancing spell that made her able to catch up to that barbaric demon.

How can she even run so fast with all those armors?!

She almost lost her at one point but fortunately, Inna began to slow down. Since then, she’s been slowly trailing her until they both arrived at the beautiful rose garden.

She never expected that there was such a beautiful place around the Rose dorms. But her appreciation was cut short when she felt a distortion of magic particles around the area. And much to her surprise, Raghnall soon teleported his way inside.

Thankfully, she was able to enter the area and hide before Raghnall remade the barriers.

Speaking of Raghnall, Alana looked around to make sure Raghnall was still nowhere in sight.

It was a rare occurrence for Raghnall to be separated from Inna and so she knew that it was the right time to strike.

Well, Inna was alone when she entered the area but she somehow had a gut feeling that she shouldn’t draw closer to her yet.

Good thing she listened to her intuition and didn’t attack her earlier when they entered. If she did, Raghnall would’ve seen her and everything would have been ruined. And so, instead of attacking, she simply casted a spell that would mask her magical particles.

Seeing that Raghnall never looked her way while he talked with Inna, she knew that he still didn’t notice her presence and that she still had a chance to strike.

And lucky for her, he left her alone for the second time, giving Alana the best possible chance!

In fact, it was like the world was practically telling Alana to get rid of Inna!

Now, there were just five more lines of the spell and she’d soon grant that mission the world entrusted her with!

But just as she was finishing the last line of her spell, there was a sudden fluctuation of magic particles in the middle of Inna and Alana. And when the magic particles soon formed the figure of Raghnall, Alana’s heart shook with hesitation.

She widened her eyes in fear as she frantically tried to think straight.

If Raghnall were to notice the signature of the magic particles in that spell, she’d surely be in trouble!

But if she were to stop now, there might never be the chance as good as this to get rid of that idiot…

She trembled in panic while she tried to hide behind one of the pillars of the pavilion. Well, if it meant destroying that woman who has stolen the man of her dreams, then she’ll take whatever punishment they’ll give her!

With her decision set in stone, she continued to cast the last few phrases of the curse.

And so, now that the curse was near completion, it began to slowly activate as black magic particles began to ooze out from Alana’s necklace. Then, it morphed into one with the shadows as it began to behave like vines. They slowly slithered towards the sleeping form of Ingrid.

But Raghnall finally finished his teleportation and in a blink of an eye, he appeared at the entrance of the pavilion. Feeling something was terribly wrong, he looked at the direction of Ingrid and despite the darkness, he was able to see the black magic particles that began to creep around her sleeping form. Wasting no time, he hurriedly tried to warn Ingrid as he ran towards her.

But by then, Alana was already finished with the spell and so when the black vines were about to strike Ingrid, Raghnall had no choice but to jump in front of her to take the blow instead.

The black vines forcefully struck his chest as it instantly slithered around him as though it was trapping its prey. They wrapped around him tightly that it made him unable to move, making him land on the floor with a huge thud. Then, the black vines soon seeped into Raghnall’s skin, tainting his veins black as he screamed in pure agony.

Seeing the disaster, Alana wanted to scream in despair as she battled the urge to try and heal Raghnall. She was torn between staying and escaping but deep inside, she knew better than to stay longer after what she had just mistakenly done. And so, despite the sadness in her heart, she hurriedly tried to escape while holding back the sobs that began to form by the back of her throat.

Oh heavens… S-she… she never meant for this to happen!

Meanwhile, Ingrid woke up from a loud thundering sound of someone screaming by her side. And when she opened her eyes, she was shocked to see Raghnall on the floor convulsing as dark lines began to cover his whole body.

Seeing his eyes turn unfocused and his expression filled with pain, she felt panic rise up her heart.

She had no idea what to do! She’s no healer! She doesn’t even have any kind of medicine with her!

Heavens, s-she even had no way to know what was wrong with him!

Still, she tried her best to figure things out despite her mind going near crazy with panic. She no longer cared about her blood nor her bleeding as she tried her best to lay Raghnall flat on the ground.

But Raghnall suddenly started to convulse. His body turned into multiple shades paler as he began to throw up blood.

With the smell of his blood now bombarding her senses, it spiked up fear and panic in Ingrid’s heart.

Oh dear heavens, was he going to die?!

Feeling overwhelmed from the immense panic and fear she felt, she began to feel her chest becoming tight and heavy. Tiny blotches of white began to fill her vision then, a few seconds later, she fell limp on top of Raghnall’s body as their visions both darkened into nothingness.