The Woman Ruler of the Altan Clan

Chapter 60 Fireball Attack

He stared at a shadow in the mirror in front of him.

A beautiful face figure looked creepy grinning from inside the mirror.

"What else are you waiting for, you fool!"

"The girl must die!"

"You have to kill him before he realizes his true power" the mirror said.

"But she is now protected by an immense power, My Lady."

"I can't break through that protection magic."

The woman in the mirror growled furiously.

"You imbecile! Why don't you go find that source of protection, then destroy it."

"Okay, My Lady. I'll do it."

"And I don't want to hear any more words of failure from your mouth, Sofia. Yesterday you did one failure, set fire to the house, but the damned girl wasn't in it."

"Okay, My Lady. I won't fail this time."

***

Shanum put away the blanket and swung his feet to the edge of the bed, his face feeling ice-cold. She had no nightmares, but somehow when she woke up she felt uncomfortable. Is this a bad sign?

Shanum was still sitting on the edge of his bed, holding his head, he looked at his dark brown carpet and tried to distract.

Shasha, what's going on? Why are you so nervous? Are you having nightmares again?

Khan's voice was heard flowing in his mind. It seems the man felt his anxiety this morning.

I didn't have any dreams, Adri. I just woke up with a chaotic feeling and felt something bad was going to happen today. Is it better to just cancel that basketball game, Adri?

Khan fell silent. It seemed like he was digesting the girl's speech.

I can't undo it, Shasha.

All right, here you go. I'll have Jullian on site. So the only ones who will compete will be me, Sergei and Abdan.

I'll call Sergei and ask for his help. I'm sure Sergei can help put his men on standby.

And I will also ask that there should not be many spectators in the venue of the match. How, Honey? Is that enough?

Okay, hope nothing happens.

Um, Adri....

Yeah, Honey...

What time did you come here?

I heard the man's voice.

Have you missed me, Shasha?

If so why? It seems I can't get away from you, Adri.

Shanum's tone of voice sounded soft and seductive in Khan's mind. Until it made his chest shake.

Khan growling. But he said nothing. Shanum waited for the man's voice to return in his mind. But for a while there was no sound.

Finally Shanum couldn't take it anymore, he tried to contact the man back through his mind.

What's the matter, Adri? Why are you keeping quiet?

Shashas...

Yes, Adri.

I'm at your doorstep.

Shanum. How could that man get in? As Shanum recalled, he never gave the key to the man's apartment door access.

"Shasha, open the door. Otherwise I'll break it."

My God, that man was actually already at the door of his room. How'this? I just woke up. My face is still a pillow face and my mouth must still smell of dragons.

"Yes for a minute, I'll go to the bathroom first" Shanum shouted.

After shouting those words earlier, Shanum immediately shot into the bathroom. He washed his face, took mouthwashes, and rinsed.

"Goddessa..."

"Yes, patience!"

Shanum strode towards the door of his room, and turned the key. He had not had time to press the doorknob to open it, suddenly from the outside of the door was pushed to open immediately.

Shanum immediately moved back to dodge, almost kissing the door leaf if his reflexes were not good.

And not yet finished his shock, he was already startled by one more thing. Suddenly his body was pulled roughly into a person's warm embrace.

Khan hugged her tightly and kissed her hair. "You made me leave my breakfast, Shasha. So you're responsible."

Shanum sighed in the man's arms, trying to ease his heavy breathing due to the sudden arrival of the man.

He then stretched Khan's embrace. Shanum stared gently at the man.

"Thul? I'm sorry then."

Khan replied with the same gentle smile while rubbing the girl's cheek.

"You'll always be forgiven, honey. So, now can I hold you again?"

Shanum nodded.

Khan hugged her again while putting a lot of kisses in the girl's hair, to make the girl's heart rustle strangely.

They stood up like that, hugging each other tightly without saying a word for a moment. Enjoy their bond together. From their body language it is seen that both get warmth and calmness of heart.

The two were also unaware, that they were currently surrounded by a sparkling white-colored light. The light filled the entire apartment up to a radius far enough outside the apartment.

Jullian who was on guard outside the apartment was shocked to see the light. He ran to a closed place, and he teleported into Shanum's apartment.

He was stunned when he appeared inside the apartment. The danger thing that he thought was happening, even the opposite of what he now saw. The man saw the Great One embracing his lover, and a sparkling white light emerged from the bodies of the two.

Jullian who was already numb, suddenly felt a jolt in his heart. He suddenly wanted to fall to his knees and shed happy tears. That glittering white light brought an incomparable air of happiness to him.

Unable to bear the feeling of full of joy that hit his chest, Jullian immediately disappeared from the room. He returns to the hotel where they are staying and gets a strange response from Abdan, his friend.

"What happened to you, Jullian? Aren't you guarding the Great in his lover's apartment?"

"I'm fine, just suddenly feeling thirsty. After this I'll go back there."

Abdan asked no further. He just relaxes his shoulders, then returns to training his muscles by lifting weights, while listening to music.

Jullian took bottled mineral water and drank enough to ease the tightness in his heart. After that he returned to his place of vigilance.

Upon discovering that the light had already disappeared completely from the location around Shanum's apartment, the man immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Meanwhile, inside the apartment, it was Shanum who first broke the silence between them.

The girl recalled the sudden presence of the man at the door of her room and it made her wonder.

"Adri, how did you show up at my doorstep. You didn't break into my front door, did you?"

Khan slightly smiled, lifted his embrace, then pulled Shanum towards the sofa in the living room. The girl encouraged Khan to sit on the sofa.

While the man took a sitting position with his legs crossed on the floor, facing Shanum, and put his head on the girl's lap with his arms wrapped around her waist.

"Adri, why are you being so spoiled for me? And you haven't answered my question, Adri?" ask her again while gently rubbing Khan's hair.

"That means the same thing, Adri." Shanum rolled his eyeballs.

"Keep on how you got in here like I asked you..." Shanum raised his eyebrows.

"Oh, about that. I called Jullian. He's the one who took me by teleporting to the living room in your apartment."

Shanum choked, his eyes bulging.

"You mean, that guy, who was expecting Farah to be able to teleport?"

"Yes. He can."

"He also brought me here from Astrakhan. There's no way I'm using a plane when I want to see you. It was too risky to provoke the questioning and examination of the parties holding me in Astrakhan" Khan added.

Shanum. "I can't believe you came here by teleportation. From Astrakhan anyway." The girl stared intently at Khan, trying to receive new information that gave him a different look at his way of believing everything related to this magical world.

He had already experienced many amazing things during his tangent with the magic world, and now another impossibility appeared. During this teleportation only known from the spectacle on the big screen, and did not expect it to exist in the real world.

Khan got up from his cross-legged position, then he sat down beside Shanum. The man held onto his shoulder and looked at both of his eyes gently.

"Why do you look shocked, Shasha? Hasn't there been a lot of magic magic you've been through all this time?"

"Rigid anyway. I'm surprised, because there's still so much I don't know about your world, Adri."

Em, besides teleportation, are there many more incredible impossible things out there?" ask again.

"Yes, there's a lot. One day you'll find out" Khan replied.

Shanum listened to Khan's words carefully. The girl thought, I really need to learn more. And somehow being alone in a world that still holds a lot of mystery suddenly made him afraid.

"Please don't ever leave me, Adri."

The girl looked at Khan with a sad face. Khan flinched, he was shocked to see his girl's expression suddenly change. And he never expected to hear that speech come out of his lips.

They were talking about other forces in the world, but suddenly the girl changed the direction of the conversation and now feels sadness.

Khan cupped Shanum's face and looked at him. "What's up, honey? Why did you suddenly say that? I will never leave you."

"I was suddenly afraid of having to face this magical world alone. You know, now I'm a kara. My parents are still not clear whether they are dead or alive. It's just you that I have right now, Adri," she said with teary eyes.

Khan immediately brought the girl back into the warmth of his embrace. "Dear, fear not, I will always be by your side. You got me. You can count on me. And I love you so much. Trust me, I'll never leave you."

Shanum looked at Khan, her pretty black eyes enlarged. "You want to promise."

Khan took a deep breath. "Yes, I promise."

Something within Khan was blown away as he stared at Shanum's sad face. "Oh, honey, I can't live without you. I will regret my whole long life for every suffering that has happened to you. I'll regret every tear that falls when you cry, if I leave you."

Then the two heard a voice rumble. The voice was heard from one of them. Shanum took off his embrace and tried to hold back the laughter that was about to come out.

Khan realized that the voice was coming from inside his stomach. He glanced at his stomach while smiling amusedly. "I think I should eat, honey. My stomach's been screaming for stuff."

"Okay, what do you want for breakfast?" ask Shanum.

"Anything, as long as you make it, I will definitely eat" Khan replied.

"I'll make fried rice."

Khan nodded his head.

"After cooking, I take a shower."

"Okay" Khan replied with a smile.

Shanum immediately got up from the sofa to the kitchen. He took the ingredients from his refrigerator and started cooking fried rice for his girlfriend.

After Shanum had taken a bath and the two of them were full as well. The two lovebirds sat back on the sofa, holding hands. They spend time telling stories. A lot of things they say. About Shanum's childhood, about his dreams and also about Khan. Shanum likes to listen to the story of the man's journey from time to time.

Without feeling the time quickly pass. And as time approached two o'clock in the afternoon, Shanum took Khan to the Diva's house. They promised to meet there. They should discuss strategy in basketball later.

Once there they also discussed the best security in the building where the match took place. Khan told about the bad feeling Shanum felt. He wanted all of them to stay on guard if the premonition was proven to happen.

Finally the game time arrived. They had already gathered on a closed basketball court inside one of the buildings. Mr. Reno and his team were already preparing there when they arrived.

"Jeez, Mr. Reno invited Brother Ryan and Brother Seto. Our college basketball experts are being pushed all the same to him" said Farah.

"Yes, it looks like there's going to be an exciting match. I've been looking for information from yesterday about Mr. Reno. You're curious, how he forced a basketball match to Khan. And it turns out that Mr. Reno was once a basketball athlete as well." Diva gave information to her two best friends.

"So, he was once an archery athlete and also a basketball athlete so?" tanya Shanum flabbergasted. He did not think that his supervisor was a multitalented person.

"For archery it seems like a hobby, which athletes only basketball," replied Diva.

"Unfortunately archery Shanum's love she failed," teased Farah with an amused smile.

"He failed because he lost the same start His Highness Khan Adrian. Try if from the first time he approached Shanum, before Shanum went to Astrakhan, the results might be different." Diva seduces while being grinned.

Shanum simply rolled his eyes without commenting on hearing the temptation of his two best friends. And they did not continue the conversation, the three were busy observing the surroundings.

Shanum saw the spectator bench filled only by five people from Pak Reno's side, outside of the players and the referee. The five spectators were students of the Student Senate who were on the campus. Shanum and his two best friends of course know the five people. They often intersect in many campus activities.

The five people looked at Shanum, and his two companions with curious looks. Perhaps they were wondering what caused Mr. Reno to suddenly hold this basketball game.

And the involvement of the three girls who are students on campus is also certainly a topic worth suspecting. Moreover, they saw Shanum and his two best friends getting along with the men who were opponents in this match.

Shanum turned his gaze towards the field. He saw Mr. Reno looking at him with a soft look full of feeling. Shanum did not expect to still get such a gentle look after he had already hurt the man a lot.

The girl did not dare to continue her gaze. He turned his head back. Now he looked towards Khan. The man looked back sharply. Then the man looked the other way. Shanum followed his direction. It turned out that Khan looked towards Pak Reno who was still fixated on looking at him.

Shanum.

Oh, my God, he saw me just now looking at each other with Mr. Reno.

Shanum suddenly felt dizzy. Although he did not give a meaningful reaction to Pak Reno, but Khan certainly saw the meaning of Pak Reno's view to him. Now Khan's gaze returned to him with a cynical smile, then he looked up. The man did not want to look at Shanum back.

Shanum panicked, he did not want the man to draw the wrong conclusion towards him. He attempted to contact the man by telepathy in their bondage. But in vain, the man closed his access.

Shanum bit his lip in nervousness. What's he supposed to do? The match will start soon. There was no way he would stop the match just because he wanted to talk to Khan.

A whistle is heard, a sign of the match will begin. Shanum sighed, he was forced to swallow his fear only in his heart.

The game started with Jump Ball. Where the referee is in the middle of the field to throw the ball up and contested by two people from each team.

Jump Ball was won by Sergei. The man moved agilely mendribble the ball. Sergei's movement was overshadowed by Kak Ryan of Pak Reno's team. But Sergei managed to outwit and lastly did Chest Pass to Khan and the man immediately caught the ball, mendribble for a moment, then move beautifully put the ball into the basket.

The first three minutes Mr Reno and the team never managed to get the ball in. But after that Khan seemed to give the opposing team a chance to be able to take the ball and give them a momentary heaven wind to score.

Shanum could not enjoy the game, as he was busy feeling troubled. The girl was seen daydreaming and observing to a point before her.

Suddenly the girl seemed to squint her eyes, observing a suspicious movement in front of the door of the changing room in the opposite stands.

Shanum again squinted his eyes, ascertaining whether what he saw was real or just a delusion. He saw a red glow coming from inside the room. The girl suddenly woke up from her seat. He had to check into the room.

"I want to go to the toilet first, yes" Shanum told his friends. Both nodded while still seriously enjoying the course of the match. They were not suspicious of Shanum's behavior.

Shanum looked around. He's trying to find Jullian, Khan's bodyguard. But the man did not see the trunk of his nose. Where is that man now? His feelings are getting more and more unpleasant. But he still has to know, what is in the dressing room?

Shanum moved slowly closer to that door. He walked down the outskirts of the stands approaching the stairs that led to the room. Just as he was about to approach the door, suddenly from inside the room appeared six men carrying fireballs in their grasp.

Shanum stopped suddenly, he jolted backwards. He glanced to his right and left. Seeking reinforcements if needed. But his position that turns his back on the field is very detrimental and in his favor. If he acted out his power, it shouldn't be too visible to the audience and that's his advantage. But his loss, he won't be easily seen by Khan's bodyguards.

The girl finally resigned herself, she still had to face these men. He was getting ready to unleash his strength and hoped that this time he would be safe.

The six men smirked towards him. They simultaneously fired the balls one by one towards Shanum. The fireball couldn't touch him. He was protected by the necklace he wore.

But suddenly Shanum saw that the fireball shot in another direction. He was briefly distracted, thinking the fireball had reached the stands filled with spectators. And when Shanum looked back at the men, suddenly he was hit by a large fireball until he was thrown not far from the location where the match took place.

Shanum panted, his chest felt very painful. He had not expected, the necklace could not withstand the power of the fireball that hit him. Shanum tried to get up. But the pain was so great that it made him grimace. He heard a lot of screams and the smell of smoke.

Shanum saw Khan running towards him. But he doesn't remember anything else after that. The girl lay unconscious in the arms of Khan who shouted to her name in panic.