Zuri knew about the fact that the lycan took children for their ritual in order to complete the beauty blood. Before Khaos, the ritual for the beauty blood had been recorded and Khaos had taught her of how to read it.

She was not good at it, but Khaos had told her the number of the people, who had died in the process of the completion of the beauty blood. The number was huge, but apparently, what was said in the scriptures of the lycan didn’t cover the actual number.

What was written down in the scriptures, was only the children from the nobles’ families, but it didn’t cover the...