Reese ran after the wizards in the direction of the destruction. She could see that more caves and hideouts were being burnt. She had to take them down in order to scare them away. She knew that the wizards were too powerful to be taken down altogether but scaring them would make a lot of difference. So she signaled all the neotides that were with her to join her into attacking the wizards at her sign.

The Mozias and the wizard army were so busy burning the caves out there that they didn't notice that the neotides had come near them. Reese could make out where the wizards were and so when they attacked the next time, she could understand their exact location.

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While a group of wizards was throwing the spells on the neotides, Reese gestured her group to attack the wizards twenty feet high in the air. In no time there were a large number of neotides who had attacked just ten wizards. While a few managed to escape as they flew upwards, three of them fell down and those three were the Mozias. Without the broomsticks all they had was their wands in their hands and their skill of martial arts to protect themselves.

Each Mozia cast several spells to ward off those hundreds of Neotides that attacked them together. The three of them fought bravely until they were bruised fatally. It took other wizards a long time before the neotides around them were killed and the three of them were rescued. As soon as they were rescued, all of them left the place and came back to the Wizard Kingdom.

Even though the three Mozia were admitted to the infirmary, the healer had warned that they wouldn't be able to keep them alive. Adrianna visited the three of them. There was nothing she could do, but there was not a trace of sadness of regret in the eyes of the affected. Rather they were proud that they fell fighting the enemy. She acknowledged them and came back to the palace. She could sense that the night's battle was going to be a fierce one.

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Reese was furious when she saw the damage. Almost half of her people were killed and her rage to kill Adrianna only increased. There was no point in crying over the ones who were dead so she assembled the remaining ones together and asked them to stay close by rather than spreading out so that in case they were attacked again, they would be able to know it soon. She waited for the evening to arrive.

Cy and his fellow wizard arrived when it was almost sun set. Reese rushed to give him an account of the day and saw that there were hordes and hordes of neotides walking through several portals. Satisfied, she waited for the last one to come out of the portal. She didn't want to disturb the wizards while they were creating portals. As soon as all the neotides of the second batch was out, she rushed to Cy to tell him everything.

Cy looked at with cold eyes and said, "How incompetent you are?" Saying that along with other wizard, he left to where they had to breach the wall again. The two of them started working on it. Reese was left feeling enraged and miserable.

Meanwhile inside the Royal Palace, the messenger informed that the walls are being breached again. Adrianna summoned Isidorus to take a look into it but there was not much he could do.

Mihr was getting nervous about the situation. "Can we not go outside and kill them?" he asked Adrianna.

"We can do that, but Cy is a very powerful wizard. He can't be defeated so easily…" she answered.

"But we cannot just stand here and watch the walls break!" Mihr was angry with her.

"Do you know how many neotides are there at the moment?" she asked him.

"Vikra has an army of over thirty thousand neotides out of which only a few came in the first batch. I think not more than four or five thousand came. Cy must have brought another fifteen thousand with him. Now this means that their army has swelled up to approximately eighteen thousand. Tell me Mihr, what is the total population of the Wizard Kingdom?"

Mihr rubbed his head and replied, "Around five thousand."

"And does that five thousand include kids and convalescent?"

"Yes."

"So I am assuming that there are no more than four thousand adult witches and wizards that can be used against that force."

"Yes…" Mihr knew where the conversation was going.

"So let's just wait a while. I am waiting for them to make a mistake and then I will destroy them full on."

Mihr couldn't really say anything after it. He knew that his queen had to protect the people of the wizard kingdom and also defeat the neotides outside. There must be a way. He left the palace and consolidated his army more.

Adrianna wanted to meet the elf present in the training ground but then she couldn't find time. When she was alone with Dmitri, she said, "Tonight it is going to be very fierce and I will go out to fight them. I wanted to ask you one thing."

"What is it Adri?"

"Your mother said that your father was never found after he fought with Vikra and his allies. Do you think your father is still alive or this is just a hope that your mother lives on…?"

"My mother feels that he is still alive, although I am not hopeful at all…" He looked at Adrianna who became sad immediately. He was sitting on the bed. "Come here." he called her to sit on his lap. She went and sat there and rested her head on his shoulder. She wondered how Cora must have been feeling without her mate all this time. She couldn't imagine her life without Dmitri…

"Dmitri…"

"Hmm…"

"I am scared…"

"About what?"

"Tomorrow night I will turn into a werewolf involuntarily…"