"We’re not here for that, Your Majesty. We understand your grief over Queen Swan, but we’re here because you’re in danger!" Blaze reported with his chest rising up and down. He tried to catch his breath as he—and the rest of the army rushed as fast as they could to reach the Beast King before the dark witch.
"A danger?" Gale frowned. "I can sense the footsteps of a massive human army and a few beastmen tribes. Tell me what is the situation, and why are they heading towards Sacred Selene Lake at the same time?"
"There’s a dark witch who controls all of them. The capital city in the Kingdom of Beastmen is empty right now because the dark witch brainwashed them all; the humans, beastmen tribes, and the beastmen in our kingdom, including all the children, Your Majesty!"
Gale’s body tensed the moment Blaze mentioned ’children.’
When he lived his bachelor life without Swan, he didn’t regard females as any different than males. They were all the same subjects for him.
But after he married Swan, he realized that both female beastman and humans have different needs than males, and he allowed Swan to make a few rules for the female beastmen so they would be safer, and that change did bring a good impact on the Kingdom of Beastmen. More female beastmen were interested in having more cubs due to their safety and privilege.
Now that he had a child with his beloved, his fatherly instinct also grew, and the idea of innocent cubs getting brainwashed and turned into a mindless meat shield was enough to anger him.
His muscles tightened as he unsheathed his claws, ready to kill the dark witch who caused this mess.
"Who’s that dark witch? Have you seen her face?" Gale asked his beta. "I will rip her to shreds and end this madness."
"That would be me."
Gale looked up and saw a woman wearing a cloak with poisonous mist coming out from under it. She also wore a hood that covered half of her face, but Gale knew who she was instantly.
Not from her voice, but from her scent.
It was the same dung-scented woman, whom he kicked out of Swan’s life entirely.
"Aria of Holy Achate."
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