42. Building The Army, Witches of Livee

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"Quenchi" [turn off spell] Kitara uttered.

At this moment, the temple transformed back to its original state, and the beautiful bawdyhouse vanished instantly.

The five redheads also stood up slowly from each Vam hunter to wear back their hooded garments. This also caused the Vam hunters to stand to their feet and find their coats.

One after another the five redheads went to stand behind Kitara and Adam who were now standing by the stairs and Edith and the remaining Vam hunters now stood before them, looking foolishly at Kitara, their saviour.

In the same idiotic facial expression was Adam, who kept rendering his smile around Kitara and as he continued shining his white teeth at every convenience.

"Adam, My Love" Kitara called the instant the five redheads were all present behind her and the Vam hunters were fully dressed.

Adam had not failed to render his smile again when he heard his name. He thus went forward and looked at Kitara with a silly facial expression and he would quickly shy away again.

"I need you to help me with a task, would you do it?" She asked slowly.

Quickly as Adam heard her, he immediately knelt before Kitara and before the five redheads.

"Send me Kitara, I will not fail you." He answered hastily as he could not be more glad.

When he answered, the rest of the Vam hunters also knelt in the same way their captain knelt and they all chorus their obedience to Kitara at once.

"Good!" she uttered as she began to pace slowly.

She began to look at her long nails and the five redheads remained looking too serious in their hooded garments.

"I want you to muster the people and lead them here and develop each one into a fighter and they will fight by our side against the bloodsuckers and we shall triumph and I shall take over the city and all the people and all the things will bow to me." She uttered as she already walked toward Adam and looked at him.

At once when Adam heard this, he looked up to her face quickly before he bent his head to the ground and professed to fulfil her wishes and the same as the rest of the Vam hunters said.

"You must now go," Kitara ordered.

At this moment, the five redheads now strangely crafted their fingers and they began to say strange words loudly.

The wind that drafted into the temple at this time was mighty and everything inside of the temple began to scatter in the direction of the wind including Kitara's hair and her garment and that of the five redheads and the rest of the witches which were blowing all up.

"Go through the portal," Kitara instructed in a loud voice since the wave of the breeze conquered every sound inside the temple.

This, Adam heard and he headed towards the Portal the five redheads created. The instant the last of the Vam hunters stepped into the Portal, the Portal closed up and the breeze became calm.

At this moment, when Kitara turned to look at the rest of the witches, her face already transformed into that of the old, burnt and tattered face.

In the same manner, the five redheads pulled down their hoods and everything they looked like now was the burnt, and decomposing living mummy.

The temple in the same way vanished from its location and reappeared at the original location of the burnt temple of Livee.

Not a single word the witches said to one another. They only walked toward the private chamber now and they gathered up at the altar of circle and they began to hum strangely.

When their humming was getting more and more intense and their eyes were shut, the temple was beginning to shake and the mighty wind began again. But no matter how strong the wind was, it did not quench the burning candles at the altar of circle.

The combination of the black and the white smoke also began to travel around them in the private chamber and each witch began to feel power injecting into them.

In this fashion, Kitara and the rest of the witches could not stand the power any longer, and they fell from their feet. But this does not mean they stopped humming until the black smoke and the white smoke became united and vanished in their midst in the middle of the altar of circle.

When the tension was at rest, Kitara was first to stand on her feet before the rest of the witches and they held their hands together again and mumbled words in a chorus.

Suddenly, there was a loud quietness in the whole of the temple. And the witches began to stare at the ceiling of the temple, crafting their hands in the silliest fashion.

With each bird flying above the temple, the witches controlled their minds and they used their sight as their vision and they gained authority over the birds. And they followed and monitored all that the Vam hunters did, and everything they say or do, they could see and hear.

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Adam and his men reappeared at the west of Petra and saw and heard the silence that preyed upon the city.

The night was a curse for the people and everything within their power they did to hide from the bloodsuckers who hunted them at night.

No person was out. No one tried to be a hero in the face of danger lest he became the evil of the night himself.