Beast King'S Crippled Mate novel Chapter 50

Chapter 50: Chapter 50: A Hardworking Advisor (II)

With everyone’s eyes on her, Swan got nervous instantly. She wanted to bury her head deep in the sand.

She was just a stupid, uneducated prostitute’s daughter who lived with maids her whole life. What qualification did she have to advise the king?!

She was frozen with fear and nervousness for a while until Gale gently rubbed her hair, "Don’t be nervous. I just want advice from my mate."

Swan turned her head and looked at Gale who smiled at her and her nervousness slowly dissipated.

She looked at the snake and badger beastmen back and forth before muttering, "Uhm, if death doesn’t scare them, then why not punish them instead?"

"Beating them or torturing them also won’t change a thing," Gale replied. "They already have the intention to die when they fight."

"N-no, not by physically hurting them..." Swan said. She shuddered as she realized the culture in the beastmen world was so bloody and violent. No wonder Gale could become so strong in the process. However, she knew that physical punishment wouldn’t work by looking at the soldiers in the Holy Achate palace.

She often saw those soldiers getting beaten up as punishment by their commanders, and once they were done with it, they would just laugh it off and train again.

Thus, Swan asked Gale, "In the city... do they have a job that will earn them some gold?"

"No," Gale replied. "Most beastmen hunt for their food and share it equally with everyone in their tribes. It has always been like that from the dawn of age."

"I see, then, why not take their food as a punishment?" Swan said innocently.

The snake and badger beastmen’s eyes widened immediately.

"Y-Your Majesty, surely you won’t starve my family, right?" the snake beastman asked.

"This is a problem between us, and we are ready to die for it!" the badger beastman added.

"SILENCE!" Gale roared, and the air around the throne room became tense immediately. However, Gale quickly suppressed his aura because he didn’t want to hurt Swan. He returned his gaze towards his mate and asked, "What do you mean by that, Swan?"

"I-I mean, since we can’t let them pay fine with gold. Then, we can punish them with their labor," Swan explained. She looked at the snake and badger beastmen who finally showed a hint of distress, a sign that they were more scared of starving their family than death. "If I were you, I’d tell them to hunt or gather twice the amount of food they have every day and send half of it to the castle for the soldiers’ consumption. Make them work like that for a week, and I’m sure they will realize it’s better to make peace rather than working twice as hard with the risk of starving their tribes."

"You heard her," Gale declared. "I will not punish you with death. Instead, you two must send food to the castle every day for a week, and the guards will be watching over the food supply. If any of you dare to attack the other, then he will have to do this for two weeks."

The snake and badger beastmen were terrified of this punishment because there was no pride in this. They were basically enslaved for a week as a punishment.

Swan was worried that she might overstep, but Gale was impressed by how decisively ruthless she could be. _{frёewebnoѵēl.com}