Chapter 156: The Witch’s Breakthrough

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Chapter 156: The Witch’s Breakthrough SAGE POV The powerful blast hit me hard and knocked me out. While I climbed up from the basement floor and wiped the blood off my nose, Elena’s void energy shook the air like angry lightning. When her power hit my spell book, it caught fire. Now, the magic in the pages was turning to ash. "The ritual circle is breaking apart!" Aiden was still trying to get to Lily while she was floating in that scary energy from another world. I yelled at him. However, Aiden couldn’t hear me because of the leaders from another world arguing over who should take Lily away. It was more important for Viktor the vampire, Prince Ash the ice fairy, and all those other magical jerks to claim ownership than to help save everyone’s lives. I grabbed what was left of my spell book with shaking hands. As the witch of the pack, I should know what was going on, but seeing Elena change into some kind of void monster made me feel like a child playing with toys she didn’t understand. "Think, Sage, think," I whispered to myself, flipping through the burned pages. That’s when I saw it. A tiny note my grandma had written in the margins of a love spell: "Emotions anchor souls to reality." My heart started beating faster. What if dimensional shifting wasn’t about power or magic at all? What if it was about feelings? I looked at Lily, still stuck between worlds, her face twisted in pain as she tried to fight Elena’s attack. Then I looked at Caleb, bleeding from Viktor’s claws, his mate bond with Lily causing that dangerous feedback loop Elena was using. "Oh no," I breathed, understanding hitting me like a punch to the stomach. Lily wasn’t just losing her connection to our realm because of her Guardian powers. She was losing it because her mental ties were being destroyed one by one. The supernatural council wanted to take her away from her pack family. Viktor striking Caleb and damaging their mate bond. Everyone treating her like a tool instead of a person. "Aiden!" I screamed, running toward him. "I know how to help Lily!" "Not now, Sage!" he growled, ducking as Elena threw void energy at his head. "Can’t you see we’re kind of busy?" "That’s exactly the problem!" I grabbed his arm, causing him to look at me. "Everyone’s so busy fighting about Lily that no one’s actually connecting with her!" Aiden’s eyes widened as he understood. "Emotional anchors." "Exactly. But here’s the bad news," I said, my voice cracking. "Elena’s attack isn’t just draining Lily’s power. It’s removing her memories of why she cares about any of us." We both turned to look at Lily. Her dimensional form was becoming more transparent, like she was fading away from our world completely. But worse than that, when she looked at us, I saw confusion in her eyes instead of recognition. She was forgetting who we were. "How do we fix it?" Aiden asked desperately. I clutched my damaged spell book tighter. "We have to rebuild her emotional ties from scratch. Make her remember why this pack, why Caleb, why all of us matter to her." "But how? She’s stuck in that dimensional energy!" "Not trapped," I amended, pieces of the puzzle clicking together in my head. "Protected. That energy isn’t Elena’s doing - it’s Lily’s natural reaction against having her soul ripped apart. But if we can’t reach her soon, she’ll disappear into the void between worlds forever." Elena’s laughter filled the basement as her change continued. She was becoming something horrible, part human and part empty space, like a person-shaped hole in reality. "Too late!" Elena called out mockingly. "The Guardian’s mind is already emptying. Soon she’ll be nothing more than raw power for me to control!" That’s when I noticed something that made my blood freeze. Elena wasn’t just stealing Lily’s dimensional powers. She was taking Lily’s memories too. Every happy moment, every reason Lily had for caring about others, was being sucked into Elena’s rising void form. "We need to act now," I told Aiden. "But this spell will require something I’ve never attempted before." "What?" "I have to link my magic straight to Lily’s memories and rebuild them while she’s still conscious. But if I mess up, Elena could drain my mind too. I could end up as empty as she’s trying to make Lily." Aiden looked at me with respect and fear. "Are you sure about this?" I thought about Lily carrying me to the pack doctor when I’d broken my leg as a kid. I remembered her staying up all night to help me practice magic tricks when other pack members said witches were weird. She’d always seen me as important, even when I felt like the strange girl who talked to plants and made drinks. Now it was my turn to save her. "I’m sure," I said, pulling items from my emergency pouch. "But I’ll need you to protect me while I cast the spell. And whatever happens, don’t let Elena touch me." I started mixing plants and crystals, my hands steady despite my fear. The spell I was making had never been tried before - a combination of memory magic, emotional binding, and dimensional anchoring that would either save Lily or destroy my mind completely. "Sage," Aiden said quietly. "If this goes wrong..." "It won’t," I lied, because sometimes lying is the greatest thing you can do. The supernatural politicians were still arguing when I finished making the spell. Viktor noticed what I was doing and snarled, "Foolish witch! You’ll kill her yourself!" "Better to die trying than live with giving up," I shot back. I put my hands on the magical circle I’d drawn and felt power flow through me like electricity. The connection to Lily’s mind hit me instantly - and I gasped at what I found there. Her memories weren’t just fading. They were being rewritten. In Lily’s changing thoughts, Caleb was becoming a stranger who’d never loved her. Aiden was just another power-hungry Alpha. The pack was a group of people who’d used her and put her away. Elena wasn’t just taking Lily’s power. She was making Lily forget every reason she had to fight back. And I was the only one who could stop it - if I didn’t lose my own mind in the process. I took a deep breath and dove into Lily’s memories, feeling reality shift around me as Elena noticed what I was doing. "No!" Elena shrieked, turning her attention toward me. "You will not interfere!" But it was too late. I was already inside Lily’s mind, racing against time to rebuild her memories before Elena could erase them totally. That’s when I found Elena’s most terrible secret - and realized we were all already too late.

Chapter 156: The Witch’s Breakthrough

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