The whole group of people was reunited, in front of the castle, Roselyn was leaning to John's arm as Ethan and William were standing behind them, Victor reached them after few minutes while the vampire girl took more than ten minutes to arrive.

John and Ethan both hugged their father tightly and Roselyn smiled at him before thanking him for having welcomed her into their family with open arms. After few minutes of goodbye, John gazed at his allies.

"Ready?" John asked when they all reunited together and after few minutes he speeded toward Kratez, carrying Roselyn.

From the last time they visited Kratez it was even more destroyed and the ground more dried, it seemed like people rebelled from John's attack.

But the blood over the soil and the groans in the nearly whispering John's name wasn't scaring him enough as much as the thought of losing Roselyn was scaring him.

"A few months made you forget how strong I am huh?" John raised his voice before groaning aloud.

"Bow in front of me and I may spare your life." John continued and after a brief silence about ten creatures walked toward him, some of them were full of wounds letting John deduce their gesture was a desperate attempt trying to seek protection, yet John still appreciated it as it was fewer people they had to fight against. The other remaining creatures who reached him were the ones John helped during the years and that swore to him allegiance for the rest of their life and were only respecting their promises.

"You must hate your life a lot if you think you would stand a chance against me and my squad, but I warned you again. So come forward!" John yelled and his voice thundered around the empty desert his land turned into.

Few creatures didn't wait much time to sit and attack but the vampire girl speeded toward them and ripped their throat in few seconds watching them fell onto the ground.

She then nonchalantly gazed at Roselyn with a challenging look on her face, "so easy, that's the best you can do? At this point, I could do it alone with John."

Roselyn scoffed mentally cursing her in the mind so furiously that John giggled, probably hearing her thoughts since they were close enough to link telepathically.

Three more creatures reached them and one of them was directed toward Roselyn. "Let's see what she can do." Roselyn heard the vampire whispering and that sentence pushed her enough to wake up the repressed anger in her veins, she closed her eyes and remembered how she set the fire the first time and tried to replicate what she did when practicing with John.

She heard a whimper of pain so loud that Roselyn opened her eyes to see not only the creature who reached her but also the other ones burning into the fire and squirming as they kept whining.

Roselyn gazed back at the woman who doubted her powers and offered a smile, "are you still sure about that?"

Soon few more creatures attacked them again, John stretched his hand and gripped around the creatures' neck crushing them against the ground, the soil plunged and John bent over one of two creatures to punch them repeatedly until it fainted. He turned around and lifted from the ground the second creature's neck just to throw it against a very far tree, slamming its body against the tree so strong that his bones cracked.

John then revealed his long sharp claws and groaned, "who is the next?"

A new pack walked toward them waiting in position to charge, the leader of the pack turned toward the rest of the pack to gesture them to attack. The six of them attacked them, Ethan reached them quickly and took one of them to crush him against the ground, he quickly used a fast strike on the second one and throw him out, the rest of the pack watched their friend flying in the air. Their heart blasting in fear seeing John's entire squad knew how to fight, they swallowed down when Ethan gestured to them to come closer.

"Scared enough now? Get out our way and let us proceed." John ordered and the few remaining wolves of the pack stepped behind.

The law of the land was that the only person who was able to fight all the creatures who got in their way toward all the path to reach the throne could seat on the throne and eventually become the King of Kratez.

"let's proceed," John said again gazing at the few remaining creatures with a furious gaze.

As soon as they took few steps forward new three creatures stepped in front of them and gazed at them loweringly.

Ethan removed the lace he had tied to his trousers that he usually used during fights and flickered the crack of a lash. He quickly knocked two creatures sprawling with a powerful kick, then he sunk the fist in the midsection of the remaining creature doubling him over to retch on the floor. But then a second creature groaned and forgetting how much Ethan was fast tried to punch against his chin. Ethan dodged the attack easily whipping against one creature's neck and throwing the creature against the floor leaving him wheezing unable to breathe.

Then he walked toward the land and as John followed them he stepped onto the creature pressing all its weight over his chest, leaving him completely breathless.

"Are you alright?" John whispered to Roselyn knowing that it must be hard for her to take part in wars and at the same time it wasn't easy to bear the visions, she wasn't still used to see when people were killed so cruelly.

"Yes," Roselyn murmured, she was fine despite all her visions and the familiar black fog that the dead creatures' bodies emanated.. Still, she tried to ignore it and keep walking behind them with her chin raised not to see the massacre on the ground.