Fate's Dark Side Chapter 801

He did not need to say anything, you all made it easy, so I decided to use him to lure you all here, making you all believe you have the surprise element," He said, laughing.

"I doubt that, Yuri; look at the dead men on the floor," Sylvester said, sounding calm, and Yuri laughed.

"You think I would waste my bloodline like this?" he asked and went to one of the corpses on the floor. There was a dart stuck to his neck. His eyes were blue, and I knew what had happened before Yuri spoke.

We could see their hair colour from afar but not their eye colour, and even if we saw it at close range, we would believe it was contact lenses. I dreaded what he would say, but I already knew it.

"These aren't Stepanovs. Just people from families, your father and grandfather offended. Honestly, your father gave me more members than anticipated when he decided to forcefully claim the West. A lot of the noble families came for help. Some were fugitives from the north," He said, turning the corpse face down with his leg.

"May their souls rest in peace. They have served their purpose," He said, and I had nothing to say. The man was genuinely heartless. To think he had set the poor people up as decoys was disheartening.

"Also, do not bother linking your men. We caught the ones with the darts," he said; I already knew that.

I wondered if they were dead or if they had surrendered. I could feel some of them, meaning they were still alive.

"Do not fight your captors," I linked them, hoping to get through. The AgK32 might help them, but I did not know the extent of their condition. I felt like a failure.

As much as we wanted to win this, every life mattered.

"Don't you have anything to say, Volkov?" Yuri asked Sylvester, and Sylvester was silent. We did not come with the mindset that Yuri would outsmart us.

"We all know how this will go, so any last words?" Yuri asked, and I could not believe this bastard.

As much as I thought of my promises to come home to Amelia, I could not live with myself if I knew we did not try. We still had some men around. About a hundred and fifty without darts and, hopefully, Alexei's men too.

We had a chance.

Looking at the formation in front of the theatre, there were almost a hundred people, but I knew there were Stepanovs in other buildings, hiding about the place and maybe the theatre too. We were outnumbered and maybe outmatched, but I was still hopeful.

"We can't head to the north now to save our mates; we just have to hope they survive. We need to do whatever it takes to end this bastard, or we will lose everything," Sylvester linked us.

His link was weak, but it carried to those of us close to him. I could feel the difficulty in the connection. The Agk32 had affected him in that department. Realising the weight of the coordination fell on me, I braced myself.

"We will be going in, and we will be unapologetic about it," I finally linked everyone, including the warriors, and I could feel all our resolves. I prayed to the goddess that we survive today and conquer this bastard, or this will be our last stand together.

"Alexei, have your men advance to this area; there will be a blood bath. Hopefully, they are on our side, or we will have created more enemies to put down," I linked Alexei, and he agreed with me. I let him do his thing while I focused on Yuri.

The man had a broad grin on his face. I expected them to pump silver into the air, but they didn't-instead he took off his clothes in front of us and shifted partially to a white wolf. He growled at us, and the others copied him.