Lord Severis glanced at the crowd that had started forming lines. Everyone had started changing their position. Amongst the thousands of participants, Lord Severis couldn’t find who might be the one looking at him.

Generally, not many people dared to look at such high-ranking Vampires to attract their attention since a Vampire Lord was pretty sensitive to such gazes.

Fortunately, such feelings were not always accurate. There were times when they thought someone was looking at them even though they were all alone. That’s why Lord Carlisle didn’t take it seriously when he had thought that someone was looking at him from the roof of the restaurant. If he had, there was a chance he would’ve caught Atlas.

“I have a plan, but it is very dangerous. It might even be more dangerous than actually going through everything here. There’s an actual risk of death.” After a long thought, Lilith commented. “However, I think we should avoid it.”

“Let me hear. Maybe the risk will be worth it.” Atlas arranged his position in the line, literally standing at the end of the seventh line, farthest from the two Vampire Lords.

“If you follow through with the plan, you might not be able to gain an entry into the Carlisle Castle through this route. Are you prepared for it?” Lilith asked grimly

“If I can’t come out of this place safely, how can I even enter that Castle? I need a way to get out of here without attracting much attention and without being seen,” Atlas stated firmly.

“Then you need to be ready to fight back,” Lilith calmly stated. “There is no safe way out of here. You’ll need to get a message to Lia. Only if she can help we might succeed.”

“She is standing on the stage. I can’t send a message to her other than the pre-planned gestures asking for help in trials. She won’t understand that I’m not trying to ask her help in trial victories but something else.” Atlas shook his head. It wasn’t going to work that easy.

If she had a path to get a message to Lia, wouldn’t he already have a path to escape?

“Do you see a way to make it happen? Only you are the one who can get there without being seen, but then again, she can neither see you nor hear you. So even you can’t help with the message. Tell me a plan that is possible!”

“If you can’t get a message to her, then that only leaves one path… You need to use the Spell I’m about to teach yourself. But as I said before, it’s really dangerous. You have never tried it before, and you don’t have the strength either.”

“Even the Simplest of Spells use your core strength. It doesn’t matter if you succeed or fail. You will suffer… Especially since your head is even more chaotic now.”

“You mean I will fall into Bloodlust,” Atlas commented, understanding what she was implying.

Lilith nodded. “There is a really good chance for that.”

Atlas took another glance at Carlisle and Sevris on the stage, considering all the possibilities.

He could see that he wasn’t going to escape safely if he stayed here. He was going to be caught. He couldn’t win and get an entry into the Castle with the presence of Severis, who had seen him before, so there was only one path left… Taking the risk and attempting it.

It didn’t matter if he lost himself to Bloodlust since the alternative was even worse. At least he had a chance to escape.

“The Bloodlust… Is it inevitable?”

“It had been inevitable since the beginning. But are you really prepared to go through it? Your conviction about not drinking blood…?”

“That was because I thought I could get into the castle without having to drink blood, but if it’s not meant to be, it’s not meant to be. At any cost, I can’t die here!”

Atlas clenched his fist, preparing to go through the plan.

“What do I need to do?” he asked Lilith.

In the meantime, there was a command issued in the arena that talked about the first trial—the Trial of Patience and Stamina.

All the thousand participants were told to stand on one foot. Whoever was to fall first failed.

Moreover, there was also a formation around the arena which increased the gravity in this place to make it even more difficult for people to stand on one foot for long. The gravity was supposed to keep increasing with each passing second.

Atlas followed the instructions momentarily to not stand out as he observed the other participants, waiting for one to fall so he could see if the Vampires were to look at the person.

On the other hand, Lilith also continued telling him about the spell and how he could use it. Since it was one of the most basic spells, she believed he was able to do it, but it wasn’t easy even for him.

Only a few seconds had passed since the trial began, and a couple of humans had already fallen to the ground.

As expected, Carlisle and Severis did gaze at the people who had fallen. It was certainly attracting too much attention, especially the lady in the stands.

With confirmation that he couldn’t leave, Atlas took a deep breath, determined to go through it.

He closed his eyes, standing on one foot. The gravity seemed to have no effect on him. He could stand here for hours straight, but he didn’t want to go to the trials ahead.

Lia was observing Atlas carefully to see if he was going to ask for her help. She didn’t believe he would since she thought he was a Werewolf. This trial should’ve been a child’s play for a Werewolves who had the strength needed.

Lia was sitting calmly, thinking Atlas didn’t need her help and was going to win easily. She could finally relax, but soon her eyes widened. “What?”

She noticed the finger movements of Atlas, which seemed too much like her own movements when she cast a spell.

“Impossible! There is no way he can cast a spell! No werewolves can use spells! Only Witches can!” She refused to believe her eyes.

Even though she noticed his strange movements, she didn’t believe he could successfully cast a spell. Anyone could make these movements, but they didn’t mean anyone could use spells! You needed to be a Witch to use a spell.

Unfortunately, she was in for a huge surprise as she noticed Atlas complete the spell. She also realized what spell it was! It was evident that the spell had worked! She could see it with her own eyes! Someone who wasn’t a witch had successfully cast a spell.