180 Who am I? (1/2)

Richard had no way to stop what was happening. There was only a single thing that he could do and that was to stall for time.

A cocoon made of darkness covered Linri. It couldn't completely stop this process, but at least it should be able to slow down the process of his body breaking down. There was only a single person in the world that could find a solution to this and she was thousands of miles away. However, that wasn't going to stop Richard from saving the son of his star pupil. Oh man, she really was going to give him an earful for letting this happen in the first place.

”Mary-Ann!”

Richard created a mirror behind him and, from it, a pale girl with a ponytail slowly walked out.

”You called?”

”Quick, there is no time to explain! Create a portal to this house in Albion!” said Richard as he showed her the address.

Mary-Ann did not know what was going on, but she could tell that it certainly had something to do with the cocoon over there. However, it was not like she could just create a portal out of thin air. Technically she could, but not over that great of a distance.

”You need to make an offering-”

Before Mary-Ann could finish Richard threw her some sort of black pellet before she swallowed it and created the portal. Richard shot the cocoon through the mirror and then jumped in himself with Mary-Ann following closely behind him.

They were in the living room of Linri's house. All the lights were turned off as it was still night in Albion due to the time zone difference.

”Lyra! Your son is dying!” shouted Richard as he quickly leapt up the stairs and barged into Lyra and Arkady's bedroom.

Lyra was sleeping before she woke up with a headache, unaware of what was going on. Richard did not wait for her to sober up and just teleported both of them to the living room.

”Quick! Your son's bloodlines are acting up! In the school, he forcefully awakened his werewolf bloodline temporarily and now they are destroying his body! Do something!”

”WHAT?!” Lyra saw the cocoon in her living room and panicked once she heard what Richard said.

”How could you let that happen!?” she shouted at Richard. She had trusted him that he would protect her son. How could he let him do such a dangerous thing!?

”No time to argue, I just temporarily slowed down the process and, if you can not stop it, there is no one in the world that can.”

”This... I-” Lyra took a deep breath. Ever since their trip to the Forest of Rundabar, she was afraid that something like this would happen, so she was researching a ritual that might combine Linri's bloodlines instead of eliminating one completely. However, she had not done any sort of testing and it could only work in theory. She was not willing to gamble her son's life away and that was why she hoped Linri would awaken by himself naturally. It seems like there was no any other choice and she had to do it now.