The Alpha's Regret Return Of The Betrayed Luna (Addison) novel Chapter 300

Chapter 300: Chapter 300 Specimen

Inside his mind, Shura whined in distress at the sight of Addison’s injury, but like Zion, it chose silence.

They both understood the weight of this mission. They couldn’t falter over every wound, nor could they risk annoying Addison with needless worry. All they could do was endure and keep moving forward.

"Alright, we’re three hundred meters in. Just a little more and we’ll hit the five-hundred mark..." Addison urged, her voice steady but firm. As she spoke, she gave Elric a reassuring pat on the back, recognizing the effort he was pouring into every crawl forward. A small push of encouragement was the least she could offer him.

Elric didn’t reply, but he gave a firm nod. At his age, he had already weathered countless hardships, and this was no different. With two Alphas at his side and Princess Addison keeping everything under control, he trusted that following her lead would see them through.

He had witnessed her composure in crisis before, how she guided them out of the Tigren camp and through the dangerous forest. This situation felt no less dire, yet no less manageable under her command.

Her quiet encouragement spurred him on. The sting of the sharp rocks cutting into his skin barely registered now, perhaps dulled by adrenaline, though he knew the pain would hit him later.

Regardless, both he and Addison pressed forward, their movements deliberate and cautious, careful not to make a sound that might draw the swarm’s attention.

Once they closed the last two hundred meters, it would fall to Elric to cast what Addison had requested, starting with the sound-cancellation spell. After all, the boulder might shield them from the locusts’ sight, but their heightened sensitivity to noise meant even the slightest slip could rouse the swarm.

Just as planned, once Addison, Zion, Maxwell, Levi, and Elric reached the five-hundred-meter mark, they stopped to observe the swarm’s movements within the barrier, searching for any discernible pattern.

From this close, however, Addison narrowed her eyes and frowned. Instead of the expected mottled greens and browns, all she could make out was a dense, writhing mass of red.

That wasn’t right. As far as she remembered, locusts were typically shades of dirty green, faded brown, or other earthy tones that helped them blend into their surroundings. This crimson swarm looked nothing like the ones she had studied before.

Her voice cut through the tense silence. "Is red a natural color for some species of locust?"

She glanced at Elric, the oldest among them, hoping his experience might offer an explanation. Addison had her share of knowledge from books and long hours spent in the library, and while fragments of old memories stirred faintly in her mind, nothing she recalled had ever mentioned locusts that gleamed blood-red.

Wait—there was a species of red locust mentioned in the insect encyclopedia.

But if she remembered correctly, they were small, with black-spotted wings... Addison’s train of thought faltered. From this distance, she couldn’t make out enough detail to confirm anything.

For now, they had to focus. Their priority was to study the swarm’s movement inside the barrier, committing its pattern to memory before making their approach. Five long minutes passed in tense observation before they finally pushed forward again, crawling toward the boulder they had marked earlier as cover.

This time, they moved faster, driven by urgency. But the speed came at a price, Addison and Elric’s exposed skin scraped against sharp stone and gravel, leaving them with fresh bruises and shallow cuts as they dragged themselves forward. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Once they reached the large boulder, Elric immediately set to work. He renewed the sound-cancellation spell along with a standalone barrier layered with invisibility. While he chanted the incantations, Zion, Maxwell, and Levi crept closer to the barrier’s edge, holding themselves in ready stances—prepared to move the instant Elric finished.

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