Loving The Cursed Werewolf King-Chapter 79: The Melted Snow

In the backyard, stood Tania, who kept staring at the gate.

"Where did Arielle go?" asked Ronan sharply, making Tania surprised.

The woman looked down in fear.

"Your Majesty, Princess Arielle forced herself to join the search towards the back hill," she answered in a weak voice.

Ronan cursed and looked at the blizzard in front of him.

"William! Get everyone up the hill!" shouted Ronan in frustration.

The king didn’t wait for William to make a move. Without putting his coat back on, the man left the backyard of the manor to wander the woods alone.

The man looked back to make sure there was no one around him. Ronan quickly took off his clothes and wrapped them into a small bundle.

He then growled softly, and slowly his body turned into a big black wolf. Ronan realized it was easier for him to brave the snowstorm in his wolf form, so he could find Arielle faster.

The wolf howled loudly, then bit his bundle of clothes and galloped through the snow. Ronan sharpened his sense of smell to look for the girl’s whereabouts, but the heavy snow and storm obscured Arielle’s tracks with the smell of cold earth and broken tree branches.

His ears perked up to hear, but only the sound of tree branches haphazardly flinging around in the winter storm was what he could hear. Ronan decided to run into the forest.

He could feel Sebastian’s presence and soon came upon the butler. The older man shouted that he found nothing in his path so Ronan turned to look the other way.

With the body of a wolf, Ronan could jump higher through a fallen tree that crashed due to the storm. His ears sharpened again when he accidentally heard a familiar whining sound.

Ronan ran on all fours, then found a running little fox that got attracted to him. Ronan paused for a moment as the fox walked around him, then turned around as if pointing the way to him.

Ronan was a little impatient as the fox ran with limp steps. The fox showed the way up the hill. It circled in a place on the edge of a cliff that was quite steep and slippery.

The king could smell the scent of some of the men there, and their direction continued up the hill. But the fox ran down the slope instead.

Ronan growled loudly when he smelled Arielle’s scent nearby. He followed down the slope and realized her scent stopped on the tree trunk above the ground. There was a piece of Arielle-scented cloth that must have snagged there.

He continued down the valley until he reached the bottom. Ronan immediately transformed back into a human form. The fox that pointed the way earlier pushed its head against Arielle’s motionless body.

Ronan was silent in his place. What he saw was beyond comprehension. All the snow around the girl melted in a fairly wide diameter and didn’t even touch her. Ronan saw with his own eyes the rare green grass that existed beneath the heavy snow of Northendell.

His mouth fell open involuntarily when the princess’s body flashed in bright light.

(What the...?)

The fox that nudged Arielle’s body backed away from the glare of the light. It only happened for a moment because the light from Arielle’s body slowly faded, and the snow fell on her again.

The man grabbed his pants and put them back on.

Ronan stepped closer. He breathed a sigh of relief when he found the girl, and the small child who had passed out on top of her was still breathing.

The place went dark again, and the ambient temperature dropped again drastically. Ronan put his clothes on Arielle’s body, then lifted the child’s body and carried Arielle on his left shoulder so easily.

He narrowed his eyes and tried to climb the steep slope earlier. If he was in his wolf form, it would be very easy for him to walk home alone. However, carrying two people at once could not be done in the form of a wolf.

He couldn’t possibly drag their bodies with his teeth. Ronan then carried Arielle and the child as he searched for a better path, but the blizzard didn’t help him at all.

The fox ran ahead and motioned Ronan to follow him again. The king soon saw a small cave. He decided to enter and put Arielle and the child there. The man looked out of the cave and chuckled.

"Fuck, I can’t carry both at once," he cursed under his breath.

The fox ran and left Ronan alone in the cave. The king checked Arielle’s body first. Her clothes were wet from the melted snow. If he left Arielle be, she would be cold again. Likewise with the younger girl’s clothes.

Ronan took off his jacket and put it on Arielle. Then he transformed back into his wolf form. He positioned himself behind Arielle and brought the princess to sit between his legs.

Ronan also brought the child closer to Arielle, so he could share warmth with both of them. Then he laid Arielle’s head to rest on his shoulder.

"You’re my last hope, buddy," said Ronan to the fox. He hoped the fox would go and bring reinforcements to pick them up.

At least the fox should know gratitude for those who were so kind as to save its life. While he waited for help, the man tried to remember what he saw earlier.

He didn’t know whose mana stream was so open that it could melt the eternal snow of Northendell that even a dragon’s fire couldn’t penetrate.

What Ronan knew though was that Arielle’s body emitted light. That meant the girl’s mana stream of light had opened even if it had only lasted a moment. But where the heat came from... was still a mystery to him.

Was this what the guards on Mount Birwick saw a while ago?

The man’s thoughts stopped when he felt Arielle’s body shivering again.