Chapter 47

Mabel's POV

I felt his body freeze up with fear as my grip on him tightened.

Fear? Corrupted knows no fear. Only pain, and more pain. But still, I didn't relax my hold on him. His skin was normal after all, no red eyes and all the other markers. And he spoke coherently. Yet, I detected corruption in him.

The newly adapted moonstone in my hand glowed, showing that corruption flowed through him. Of course, I had just managed to put that feature together a few days before after repeatedly failing experiments and never had the opposite to test it before now. Which means it might be reading wrong.

But still, better sorry than late.

"Who are you?" I growled again, tightening my hold. My claws digged into his chest a few millimeters and I felt blood at their tips. The guy froze even more.

Then suddenly, there was a surge of energy from his body and I was thrown off. I flew backwards and landed hard on the ground.

I sensed Mia spring up from the ground rather than see it, and I felt a c