Chapter 28

Isabella's POV.
The young wizards didn't pick up on that. I think they probably didn't consider me a friend to begin with.
But it doesn't matter.
I guess they simply did not find a suitable place to spend the night. Otherwise, it is impossible to spend the night outside the tribe alone and be tortured by those things city this way.
But I know clearly. Those elders must have trusted them more than the two of us.
"You two, why did you come back so late?" Those elders were obviously questioning us.
"Don't you guys know how dangerous it is to spend the night out there now?"
"So, did you guys find her?" James interrupted the other elders. "Did you find your aunt?"
I stared at him. The scene was as if the two of us were acting with the intention of fooling everyone around here.
"I didn't find her. I fell into a bush and slept there." I thought about it and answered seriously.
"Elijah took me into hiding. But there were no vampire bats to be found. This proves that then the one we met is indeed dead."
"But how is it possible to just sleep on the road?"
"It's a real possibility, there's been a lot of hypnotic plants around here lately." James replied.
"Indeed, that woman, it is not impossible to use this opportunity to run away."
"And where could she run to? She is one of us here, after all." The elders next to him clearly disagreed with this one of his statements.
"You're related to her by blood. You're the most likely person to speak for her." Those elders looked at me.
I didn't know how to answer.
Soon this excruciating debriefing was over. I sat depressed in the library, clutching a book and staring at it.
A man approached. I didn't see his figure, but that distinctive herbal smell proved his identity.
He is James.
"So what exactly am I supposed to do for them to believe what I say?" I looked up at him.
"I'm afraid there's nothing good about it. Your aunt is rarely even believed." James' expression looked very sincere.
"It has to do with your father, and I'm afraid it's going to be hard to change. But more than that, you should be concerned about those blood-sucking bats. That tooth of yours is unusual, which proves that they are not ordinary blood-sucking bats, so it is even more frightening for a wizard."
My eyes widened.
In other words, these blood-sucking bats could have almost directly wiped out the colony where these witches were.
"Is there anything I can do?" I looked at him.
"If it does come to that, I'm afraid you won't be able to do anything. But I still suggest you get some rest. Lack of rest will affect your performance even more, right?"
Although he did have a point, neither I nor Elijah were able to really sleep this night.
Both what the aunt said and what this man said prove one thing.
Now both werewolves and wizards are in a huge crisis.
In between the confusion, I heard the shrill siren.
Those blood-sucking bats, here they come!
Only by solving them can the community be freed from the crisis.
I rushed toward the outside.
"Stay here and don't go out!" Elijah stopped me.
"No, I know better what's going on here." I pushed him away and jerked the door open.
The gale almost pushed me right back inside the house. I barely opened my eyes.
The sight outside the door is one I will never forget.
The last time Elijah and I were able to defeat the vampire bats, it was mainly because there was only one. Now there are at least 10 vampire bats.
They flew over together, the sky seems to be darker by one degree. In this case if they bite then it will be very dangerous.
The bite of a vampire bat is poisonous and does not heal quickly. Even for werewolves that is quite painful, not to mention the physical condition of a little less these wizards.
Soon, the wizards who were maintaining the magic array couldn't hold on.
Those spells that wizards are so proud of are not really of much use to these things.
The huge fireball grazed our shoulders and flew over the side, but it didn't even hurt the thing's wings.
"Firelight is useless, you need the sun!" James shouted at us as he deadpanned the creature in front of him.
"They fear the daylight! And silver!"
I stuck the neck of the nearest bat and twisted it hard. There was a very small magic formation under its flesh, and I stuck it in hard with a silver needle.
It is finally quiet, but there are still the remaining nine. The only way to get rid of them is the sun.
But it's late at night, where are we going to find the sun?
Only stick to the end ......
I looked at the still dim sky.
Those music played by the wizards did not help at all. The hissing sound of the vampire bats was significantly more powerful.
"These are much more powerful than the ones we've encountered before." Elijah wiped the blood from his face.
He owned a dagger made of silver. This dagger was covered with blood.
"Obviously, someone has transformed them." I muttered. "The creator of these things is very clever."
"Do you have a bow and arrow, or a gun with silver bullets? Just punch them hard in the wings." I turned around and yelled at the wizards behind me.
They held on and soon freed up some of the men to bring in new equipment. The equipment looked very finely carved, like those used by vampire hunters in the vampire hunter era.
Immediately after that, those bullets made of silver were shot at those blood-sucking bats.
Elijah and I interspersed among them to help the wizards take care of any trouble that came near them. But even for Elijah and me, our physical strength was hardly enough to hold out until the end.
"It's time." I leaned against Elijah's shoulder. The fishy sweetness in my throat made it almost impossible to speak. "It's going to be sunrise."
The huge golden disc rose from the distance, and I had never felt so warm when the sun shone.
The rest of the bats flew away like that. Their wings were burned by the sun and smoldered like meat on a grill.
"Isabella!"
I just felt Elijah shouting the words farther and farther away, and then I lost consciousness completely.
I was lying in bed with many doctors sitting around the bed.
"It was our mistake to blame you. It was a dereliction of duty on the part of those elders." A wizard sat on the edge of my bed.
"Would you like to stay? We think you are young, but have the skills to be able to become an elder." James pointed to himself.
"Just like me."
In fact, I knew it from the moment he did that. He was definitely not interested in myself, he just wanted me to inherit those witchcraft from him.
"Thank you all very much. But I guess the Pack is my home." I shook my head.
I'm grateful to him, but I can't stay.
"I know what I'll face, but I don't think I can run away from it."
"That's the way to qualify Luna. i understand, but maybe one day i'll make a house call and drop off my stuff." James laughed heatedly and handed me a book.
"Go back to where you are supposed to be. May the goddess of the moon bless you."
I had thought he would keep me trapped here, so all the words I had prepared became useless at this moment. I looked at him in surprise.
"There's no need to look at me like that. I don't suppose there's, like, a teacher who gets in the way of a student's progress?" He looked at me, but his eyes were full of laughter.
It seems that I have been misunderstanding him before.
"Don't worry. All the people of the wizard tribe will no longer misunderstand you now. People have even entrusted me to bring you gifts."
He took out a huge box and put it on the table next to me.
I know how precious the wizard's magic treasure is. This gift is too generous!
Elijah and I were soon on our way out.
With both his wounds and mine healed, we really have no more reason to stay here.
I thought the neighborhood should have all returned to peace but on the way, we encountered a medium-sized, but very rabid wolf.
I had thought it was a monster that had also been demonized. But in that moment when I was about to do it I saw its eyes.
Instead of the kind of innocence in its eyes that only beasts have, it had a completely frightened look.
"No, that's not a beast. That's a werewolf!" Elijah, whom I stopped in a hurry.
The one in front of you is obviously a woman, but she is obviously so frightened that she is now unable to take human form.
"Don't worry, we're here to help you." I stopped Elijah and smiled at her as friendly as I could.
She froze and stared at me blankly, and soon she took on a human form.
She was still very cute looking, but couldn't tell her age. She had long, rough hair and just sat there crying silently.
It took a long time before she looked up at me.
"I'm sorry." I heard her say this in a very small voice.
I don't know what she went through. But looking at those marks on his body, it was definitely not something easy.
"She seemed so frightened that she couldn't speak at all." I touched the girl's cheek.
Her body temperature was very high and she obviously had some kind of disease in her body. She sat straight down on the floor and didn't look like she could move at all anymore.
"She's been hurt so badly." I looked at those wounds on her wrists.
And it's hard not to think in those bad directions with those wounds on her lower abdomen.
I made a very simple sled and pulled her forward with me in the grass.
This girl will be a member of the Green Creek Pack from today onwards, and we will shelter her from all the trauma she has been through.
"It's okay, you could have not explained to us." I draped my jacket over the girl's body.
I could tell that she was visibly shaking, which is inevitable after a huge shock.
I was inexplicably reminded of me when I had just arrived at the Green Creek Pack before, and it seemed like I looked like this at that time too.
"Poor girl." Mia sighs in my head.
"I hope she doesn't have any more pity."
"By the way, earlier you said Liam, what did you guys end up doing with him?" I turned around and looked at Elijah.