First QuarterChapter Sixty-One: The Hunting GroundsThe next morning, they met at the end of the camp. Mallory saw her group flocking together like a bunch of excited animals but then scattered the moment she arrived. Mallory ignored the blatant rejection in their eyes and stood next to them. Cyril, who was standing far away, looked at her anxiously.Mallory smiled at him, reassuring him that everything would be fine.It’s been the third day. All these days, she’s been on guard as she doesn’t know if something would really happen, but fortunately, just like Trevon said, nothing did. Maybe it was truly just her imagination, and she had nothing to worry about.Soon, their instructor arrived.“Let us wait for the other to get completed before heading off.” Their instructor is a female beta. She had short hair, almond-shaped eyes, and a powerful, intimidating aura. “We will be exploring the forest at the best we can so you’ll have a better gist of where to hunt and to settle for the ent

First QuarterChapter Sixty-Three: A PuzzleNothing. There's nothing out of the ordinary. Thinking that they were making a fool of her, she turned to them with her eyebrows raised. “What—”[Shh.][Be patient!][It will be anytime soon!]So, Mallory swallowed her words back in her mouth and looked around again. She held her breath and dusted out the window curtains and used it to clean the chair, then sat on it slowly, trying to assess if it not breaking earlier was just a one-time thing.It didn’t break this time either. Mallory relaxed and waited for whatever was about to come.It didn’t take longer than she thought it would.[Wake up!][Stop sleeping and look!]“I’m not sleeping,” Mallory lied, knowing that she almost dozed off if not for the light that was hurting her eyes. She couldn't contain her amazement at what she saw.When the sun

First QuarterChapter Sixty-Five: The Guidance of the Souls Mallory finished reading the diary and when she closed the notebook, she didn’t know what to feel about it.After that first sentence, the past Goddess’ Blessed simply disregards it by saying she will be narrating her life in that small notebook. Mallory was skeptical; how can she tell a whole life in this small notebook? Then, after reading, she realized why it only took her this long. The past Goddess’ Blessed wrote this before she set off outside to fulfill her duties as the Goddess’ Blessed. She wrote sentences so short that she summarized ten years’ worth of life in a few sentences.She was just an ordinary werewolf in a small pack living quietly with her fated mate when she discovered that she was the Goddess’ Blessed. Everyone celebrated, thinking that finally, the Goddess would be gracing them with her presence. However, her mate betrayed

First QuarterChapter Sixty-Seven: Second DayLiving Souls.During the two hours of non-stop teaching her about her healing ability, the noisiest one of them kept on babbling on and on and naturally spilled what Living Souls are.They were not plants. All along, she thought she could talk to the plants themselves, but turned out, that they were the souls of a plant that lived for hundreds of years that they gained consciousness. As they were already souls, they could move from one ‘unconscious’ plant to another, taking over their ‘bodies’ for a while. It seems convenient, but they can’t stay away from their original area for too long unless they want their real body to wilt. Mallory tried asking them where their original husk was, but they didn’t say as it was equal to saying how to kill yourself.So, Mallory then thought back about the oddity she didn’t notice. ‘Come to think of it, If I talk with them, and then go to another area, it seems like I’m still talking to the same person a

First QuarterChapter Sixty-Nine: Bond BreakingMallory stood on her paws, feeling her feet touch the ground. She thought that in her wolf form, she would stand lower, but to her surprise, her form was half the height of her original body.Her wolf was unbelievably huge.“My Goddess,” she said, her yet still unfamiliar mouth moved. “I did it!”Her head was still throbbing, but it felt like she had taken a pain-reducing pill.The pain that remained was coming after ticks and intervals, and the ravings had soon become muffled like something had blocked her ears.Mallory was free.Her senses became sharper than before, her reflexes faster and more precise.Mallory felt like she was standing above the world.Without a second thought, she ran outside, her silver-blue fur waving in the wind. Her paws paddled against the ground, and the rustling of the dried leaves and the crisp twigs breaking resonated in her ears.Mallory, for the first time, felt like she was free. She felt refreshed and