The night came and the guild was closed, this was necessary since all werewolves couldn’t work on a full moon.

To not arouse suspicion they did this three times a month. This included the branch guilds.

The official reason was that, the guild worshipped the god of adventures Apangu, he was a well known God.

And three night each month they held a prayer thus forcing the guild to close. This seems to have worked.

Nobody so far had suspected anything, at least not to their knowledge. Adrian looked at Annie.

" Any more information about the Grieved Souls thing?" He asked.

She nodded, " It’s what you would expect, the top forces took action, after all many of their members were effected.

What makes this thing terrifying is that the Grieved Souls are always stronger than their targets.

I heard rumours that one of the priests, one powerful enough to use occult magic at the level 5 range has been marked."

Adrian nodded, " If the guild is commissioned to deal with this, we might be in trouble.

I don’t think we’ll be able to protect even our own members."

She shook her heard at that, " Not necessarily, the Grieved Souls are still dead spirits.

They can be dealt with using salt and pure iron and they’re not particularly strong, they’re just more effective on their target."

" So you’re saying even a Grieved Soul who can kill a level 5 Fayera can be dealt with by a level 1 werewolf?" That made no sense to him.

She nodded, " At least that’s what the book says. Instead of the Grieved Souls being weak.

It’s more accurate to say the target is just weaker against them but that power isn’t effective against others."

He nodded, he stretched his neck, he could feel his emotions getting wild, the change was going to begin soon.

" Alright, everybody to your stations now." The werewolves scrambled to lock themselves with silver chains.

Annie did the same but like him she also had to stab her heart with a silver dagger so she won’t go wild.

Like him, stabbing her with silver or decapitating her was enough to kill her but it was more effective than it was on him.

Adrian can still move and fight even with silver in his heart, Annie could do nothing but growl softly.

According to her, it was like having every ounce of strength drained out of her body then having boiling magma in her heart.

It was painful and made her feel helpless, he suggested she stop and they strengthen her chains instead but she refused.

For one reason only, the longer she did it, the more used she got to it. Not the strength draining that hasn’t changed one bit.

The pain, the pain wasn’t less than before but she no longer minded it as much. After making sure everybody was set.

He was about to lock himself when somebody came busting through the door, it was Sanchez.

" I changed my mind, it’s not too late is it, you can still change me?" She asked looking nervous.

Adrian grinned, his body blurred and he appeared behind her. Before she could react he bit her neck.

She felt a wave of euphoria overwhelming her senses. Her legs lost strength and in a blink of eye found herself bound by silver chains.

All of that happened so fast by the time her brain registered anything, it already all over and so a new member of the main lineage was born.

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Back in Lagos.

Cane Biden walked out of the club and starting walking home. Eight years ago he lost his parents and sister.

To this day he couldn’t remember what happened, they told him it was a fire but he was eight back then.

There was no way he couldn’t remember a fire engulfing the house he lived in. His therapist said his trauma was blocking those memories from him.

Cane would be turning sixteen in a few months so why was he in a club? Fake ID of course.

Cane was a hooligan, he stole, drank and smoke, because of that he’s been through foster home after foster home.

’ Damnit.’ he cursed as he was brought out of his thoughts. He could hear people following him .

He knew they were probably from a gang he pissed off somehow or somebody he owed so money.

Cane though was very good at running away so he had never been caught. Seeing they were closing up he went inside an alley.

Unfortunately for him, it appeared these guys were thoroughly prepared. There were others on the other end of the alley waiting for him.

He turned back and the group following him blocked his path. " Gentlemen, I’m sure this is just a misunderstanding.

If you could just let me go, that would be great." They drew closer and closer.

" Okay okay, I see you all mad and I’m assuming I owe you some money. How about this.

Tomorrow, I’ll give you your money tomorrow right here, I promise, there’s no need for things to escalate."

One of them tilted his head, his face twisted with rage. " Money, you think this shit’s about money gringo? Naaaa, this bout my little sister which you got pregnant then dumbed.

And for that, you’re about to pay white boy."

That just confused Cane, " Okay now I’m sure this is just a misunderstanding, I ain’t got nobody pregnant man I swear.

Listen, whatever she told you, she’s lying I’m a virgin man." He lied, he was not a virgin but he really didn’t remember getting any girl pregnant.

" Oh so you’re calling my little sis a liar, first you break her heart now you call her a liar, you’re dead boy."

Cane took a step back but he was surrounded on both sides. " Okay, maybe if you tell me your sisters name,maybe I know."

" So you’re a player too, you don’t even know the girls you sleep with? My sister is Jennifer, you better remember her."

Cane paused then laughed. Jennifer’s brother looked pissed at that. " You think this a joke? You think we’re playing with ya?"

He shook his head, " No but I know that bitch is lying, your sister’s been fucken everybody in school but I never touched her.

She’s lying coz I turned her ass down and now she’s pinning her baby on me, I bet she don’t even know who the father is."

That seemed to piss them off even more. " You call my sista a slut." He pulled out a gun and pointed it at Cane.

" Whoa whoa whoa, wait wait, let’s not get hasty." BOOOOOM, the gun went off.