<h4>Chapter 238: _Portal Trap</h4>


    Everyone was as stumped as me as we pondered the question I had just dropped.


    How do we get into the pocket dimension of a witch who clearly has dominion over space magic?


    Killing Luzia through a vessel already showed her strength. But creating a pocket dimension?


    That’s a feat straight out of aic book.


    "First things first..." Kaelos suddenly spoke up, leaning in from his seat and stretching out his right arm, revealing the branding sigil. "Take this damn sigil off me. If we’re going to face a witch capable of creating dimensions like it’s a regr Tuesday, I’ll need my powers. All of it."


    Isaiah clenched his jaw, hesitating only for a moment before giving a defeated sigh.


    The witch stretched out his hands, his fingers hovering over Kaelos’ outstretched arm as he hummed, closing his eyes. He then proceeded to draw out the same wand he had used in branding Kaelos in the first ce and cleaned off the sigil with a few strokes.


    "Voilà." Isaiah pped, giving Kaelos a wink. "Also, the sigil couldn’t have held you back if you tried hard enough to break it. But that would’ve sent a signal to me, letting me know you’re—"


    "I get it," Kaelos grunted, shing a sarcastic smile before clearing his throat. "Now about this bloody pocket dimension. I just thought of something... The portals she’s used to link her dimension with targeted packs. We could hijack one."


    My eyes widened a bit as I nced at Kaelos. That... Honestly wasn’t a bad idea.


    "Hijack one?" Governor Daniel seemed intrigued, cing a hand on his chin. "How? I’m guessing that would require magic and we can’t really aplish that without alerting the witch."


    "And risk being possessed as well," Isaiah murmured thoughtfully. "She could use her magic lingering on those portal routes and link to any of us. There’s no telling how powerful her possession can get even from a distance."


    I nodded in agreement, dimming my eyes slightly.


    "Then we fight fire with fire." Colonel Fernando suddenly muttered, gesturing at me. "We have a hybrid on our side. She can fight off the possession magic if the need arises and give us the chance to hijack it sessfully."


    That felt like a p in the face rather than apliment. I nced at the bracelet on my right wrist, sighing heavily.


    "My mate can’t use her powers in public," Kaelos exined just then, causing me to nce at him.


    He stared at me briefly, giving me a warm smile before he continued. "The Elders of the Luminary coven have forbidden her from doing so for the next six months."


    "It doesn’t have to be public then," Isaiah remarked, saying it like it was the most obvious path to take. "The rest of us can be on standby while she fights off any attempts from the witch to possess us."


    I smiled bitterly, shaking my head. "My hands are literally tied. The elders of the Luminari Coven are watching me through this bracelet. I don’t exactly have fluid control of my magic so they’re making sure I don’t have another... Outburst."


    <fnf127> Content originallyes from F?nd-Novel</fnf127>


    I clenched my fists when I remembered the incident at the Charity Ball. Violet mes bursting out. People running for their lives, their terrified screams rippling through the chaos.


    The buildingbusting in the explosion, the mes turning some too unfortunate to be standing close to me to barbeque.


    I didn’t want any of that again.


    "Her powers will be ast resort," Kaelos said firmly, holding my arm softly and grounding me emotionally, reminding me that he’s there. "In the meantime, what if we don’t need magic to hijack the portal routes?"


    I slowly sat down, rubbing my forehead when I felt my headache getting worse. Absorbing the information from Luzia’s consciousness took a little toll on my mind.


    "What do you mean?" Isaiah asked Kaelos with a confused tone.


    I nced at Kaelos just in time to see him smile mischievously.


    Oh, he had a n alright...


    "How many human soldiers does your city currently have deployed outside its walls?" Kaelos asked.


    All eyes went to General Reyes who quickly brought out his tablet, scrolling through it for a few seconds before speaking.


    "Exactly fifty-two soldiers. They’re mostly sent to scout and look out for any threats."


    I arched an eyebrow while Kaelos nodded.


    "Good. Recall all of them."


    The general blinked, staring at Kaelos like he had gone mad.


    "We are currently under lockdown, Alpha King." Governor Daniel chimed in just then, adjusting his sitting position on his seat. "Not to mention that an unknown number of those soldiers are under the raven witch’s mind maniption."


    "My point exactly." Kaelos nodded, drumming his fingers on the table. "They don’t need to enter the city. They just need to be sent on a mission... To scout the forest. We can then wait for them in the forest and scan their trucks for anything suspicious."


    My eyes widened as I began catching on to what he was driving at.


    "The trucks!" I yelled, nodding in understanding. "In the footage we watched in the military archive, the trucks were etched with augmented teleportation runes. Those trucks are what the soldiers used in transporting the wolf captives into the pocket dimension."


    "Oh, wait a minute..." Isaiah snapped his fingers, causing all eyes to turn to him. "I see... So if we can get some of these soldiers toe on a fake mission in the forest, we can easily find out the exact trucks with these runes and hijack one."


    I nodded, adding quickly. "Then we stage a fake captive situation. Kaelos, I, and a few others—just enough to face the witch and whatever traps she has—will go in as the ’captives’ through one of the trucks. Easy peasy."


    I swerved my head to Kaelos, smiling brightly and patting his shoulder, while he gave me a wink.


    ’Look at you, navigating your way through magical situations like a witch.’ I teased him mentally.


    ’Well, I only learnt from the best hybrid I know,’ he said with the same teasing tone, and I felt a warmth in my chest.


    Suddenly, the governor got on his feet, causing all eyes tond on him.


    "It’s settled then. Let’s kick-start this mission and make sure Elder Luzia’s sacrifice doesn’t go to waste. Every hour we wait is another hour the raven witch uses werewolves as experiments... or worse."