Chapter 120

120 The Final Round

On their last day of training before they departed for the war site, everyone gathered to watch the final round of the war simulation. The winning teams from all five groups got to participate, and this time the group leaders also joined in.

Lucien and Annalynne formed a group together while Desmond, Acatha, and Kendra formed the opposing group. The distribution reflected the actual war circumstance where the Silent Walkers Pack was at disadvantage in terms of number.

After they all transformed into their wolf forms, Alice tied a green scarf around Lucien and a blue scarf around Kendra. When she was tying the scarf around Lucien’s neck, she took the chance to inspect Lucien’s wound. Thankfully, it was healing well.

The whistle was blown at 10 AM, announcing the start of the final round. According to their current strategy, Ronan and his lead warriors were to push through the crowd so that Lucien could reach Kendra. Annalynne’s group was in charge of engaging the other werewolves and keeping them busy.

Desmond, Kendra, and Acatha were not stupid. They came up with their own strategy. It was to separate Lucien from Ronan and his lead warriors as far as possible so that Kendra could disarm Lucien easily.

That proved to be a difficult feat because Ronan was faster and stronger than any of them. He casually flung away one alpha werewolf after another that blocked his way. Whenever Kendra wanted to pounce on Lucien, Ronan was there to foil her plan.

Thankfully, Kendra’s group had a lot more werewolves. Because Ronan was not attacking to kill, naturally the werewolves he tossed aside could easily make a comeback. Eventually, Ronan was separated from Lucien. Desmond and Acatha forced Ronan to fight far away, while Kendra and her team cornered Lucien in the opposite direction.

The two alpha wolves walked in a big circle while glaring at each other. They both had their eyes set on the scarf that the other party was wearing.

Kendra struck first with her paw, and Lucien retaliated.

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And then they were back to observing each other’s movements again. Being the impatient one, Kendra kept trying to find a hole in Lucien’s defense. She lunged and snapped at him a few times to no avail.

Lucien was very patient. He played with Kendra for a long time until he managed to read Kendra’s movement.

She was always a little insecure on her left side.

Lucien made one jump and pinned Kendra to the ground. The latter struggled and the two alpha wolves ended up rolling together on the ground in an attempt to break free and also snatch the other one’s scarf.

Kendra’s scarf was tied a little too tight together. Lucien tugged at it a few times but did not manage to pull it off. In the end, he ripped the scarf apart and jumped off Kendra before the latter snapped at his scarf.

“THE GREEN TEAM WON!!!” Alice announced loudly, followed by excited cheers from the spectators.

Jake clapped his hands from the side.

That was it then, the last training in the Silent Walkers Pack territory.

The young ladies from the pack came over with blankets to wrap around the alpha wolves so they could transform into their human forms.

“Great match, Lucien,” Kendra said with a smile. She had the blanket wrapped around her slender body, displaying her naked shoulder and some cleavage.

“You too,” Lucien said with a smile.

Kendra then left to take a shower.

It did not take long for him to defeat Kendra. She was smaller than Lucien, be it in human form or wolf form. She was also weaker.

Kinnon was bigger than him in human form, but their wolf forms were somewhat comparable, whether in size or strength. The only thing that Lucien was mostly worried about at the moment was his lack of experience in wars.

Lucien’s train of thought was interrupted by a scoff behind his back. He turned around and came face to face with Ronan, whose lips were pulled into a taut line.

Lucien raised his eyebrows at him.

“What is it? Not good enough for you?”

Ronan’s face darkened. He stuck at Lucien’s back and hugged him from behind.

“I saw you rolling around with her,” he said, his tone dripping with unconcealed jealousy.

Lucien rolled with his eyes.

“That was unavoidable, was it?”

Ronan’s brows were pulled together into a tight knot. He knew that, but it still made him unhappy.

Lucien could not help but tease him a little bit.

“Or are you telling me that you would rather have me roll around with Acatha? Or Desmond?”

“For goodness sake, no!” Ronan snapped.

Acatha was another she-wolf, but Desmond was a male! Ronan could not digest the image of Lucien rolling around with another man, pressed together skin-to-skin... It was as bad in wolf form as it was in human form.

“Then stop complaining,” Lucien said while patting Ronan’s cheek. The latter pressed a secret kiss into Lucien’s palm while no one was looking at them.

“You are all sweaty,” he commented right after the kiss. “And your palm has dirt on it,” he added.

Lucien chuckled.

“Did I ask you to kiss my hand? Why don’t you wait until I am clean from head to toe before you kiss me?”

Ronan responded by stealing a quick kiss from Lucien’s lips.

“I don’t want to.”

“Rascal.”

The two men walked together and headed toward the pack house to take a shower.

From the other direction came three elders who walked in their direction as soon as they spotted Lucien.

“Lucien,” one of them bowed his head when he arrived in front of Lucien. His hand trembled a little when he held out an envelope in Lucien’s direction.

Lucien took the envelope and flipped it to reveal the wax seal from the Werewolf Council.

“Is this...?” He asked although he already knew what the answer was.

“Yes,” Ronan said in response. “The location of the war has been decided.”