Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 160

Chapter 160: BARBARIC
Zaya gave him her sweetest smile, waving her hand nonchalantly. “I am just joking king Rowan.”

The king looked at her with amusement, she could joke around when they were literally surrounded by monsters, she didn’t even look concern with the dead bodies and the blood that turned the ground into black color.

“The first monster that you fought was Troll and that huge monsters are Vermeyes,” Zaya explained to him briefly about the monsters and King Rowan listened attentively.

“I think I need to learn more about all the monsters in this continent from you, princess,” King Rowan said.

“If you wanted to learn, I will ask someone to tell you everything that you wanted to know,” Zaya replied gently.

“What the fun of talking to someone else when I enjoy our conversation?” king Rowan replied, he didn’t even shy with his intention and this could be a dangerous thing to get the king’s attention.

However, before Zaya could reply, blood splash on king Rowan’s face. That was the blood from the Vermeyes that they managed to kill and a black beast approached him.

“Sorry for that, king Rowan,” Zander said lightly, as he approached him. “Can’t control the blood. Prince Zenith too rough with his attack, because he was worried his pregnant mate will get bored inside the carriage.”

King Rowan wiped his face from the blood and smiled tightly at him. “Don’t worry, I used to see blood.” There was certainly a double meaning behind it and Zander could hear that perfectly.

“I think we found something common between the two of us,” Zander replied smoothly and in the same breath he talked to Zaya. “Close the window, my dear sister, I know this sight is too much for you. You don’t need to worry about your brother. I will be right there.”

The corner of Zaya’s lips twitched. She shuddered when she heard the way Zander called her ‘dear sister’, but she smiled at him and played along.

“Please, be careful, my king brother.” Zaya then closed the window.

It was obviously a lie, she saw it from the corner of her eyes that Zenith intentionally splashed the blood on King Rowan and it left Zander with the excuse to get Zaya away from the king.

Her two brothers were still the same, their overprotective nature was sometime overbearing, but Zaya was grateful for that this time.

However, Zaya was not the only one, who could see that lie, because king Rowan found it funny when Zander said that the sight of the dead monsters were too much for her, as the princess had been watching the whole thing since the very beginning.

“Interesting,” king Rowan muttered under his breath, as he stared at the carriage, as if he could see the auburn princess inside.

[Don’t do that again, Zen.] Zander mindlink Zenith.

No matter what, they were still their guests and he had a reason to invite them here. They couldn’t ruin the entire thing because of this.

[Should I throw Vermeyes’s head this time?] Zenith asked.

[…] Zander didn’t know what to say anymore.

Thankfully, Vermeyes was easier to kill, since they moved very slow and it was easy for a bunch of shifters and knights to kill them all.

However, because the knights were not experience with the monsters, there were four of them who got bitten and were poisoned.

Celine was called to check on the knights. There was nothing serious and Celine could heal them, but because of the two attacks, they were forced to stay the night in the forest.

Thankfully, they were well prepared.

“This is the first time I met with a healer.” king Rowan was impressed by how Celine used her healing power and closed those wounds. “If we have a healer, all the knights could go on war without worrying of dying.”

Celine looked calm and demure. “That’s not how thing works, king Rowan. We have our limit too.”

“Oh, really? This is interesting.” King Rowan watched Celine healed the last knight, he touched his chin and was deep in thought.

After that, they built a few tents to stay the night and continue this journey to the palace early in the morning.

“Do you think monster’s flesh can be eaten?” One of the knights asked Darius, he was curious.

The gamma gave a disgusting look. “We have never tried, but we have never thought to try it either.”

“Hm? Why don’t you try?” The knight insisted. “If we can eat these monsters, we don’t need to hunt for dinner. These monsters are enough to fill our stomach.”

“No. I will go hunt. I have a delicate palate, these monsters are not up to my standard.” Darius shuddered, what kind of creature was the knight from Marca El to even consider to eat the monster?

They were more barbaric than what he heard.

“There are a lot of civil war back in our continent, so we used to eat anything that we can find. We are not picky with our food,” king Rowan said, explaining his knights’ antic. “I actually curios with the taste too.”

Darius just nodded, but then he walked away with Thean when the king and the knight discussed how to grilled those monsters.

“They are not picky, they are barbaric.” Darius shuddered.

“Actually, I wonder about the taste too,” Thean said.

“Did you hit your head?” Darius shifted into his beast to hunt, followed by Thean.

Later that night, after all of them had their dinner and the knights enjoyed the monster’s flesh, they had this small meeting inside Zander’s tent.

“They really ate the monster…” Zaya looked like she wanted to vomit. She grabbed Dawn’s arm and the two of them walked into Zander’s tent. “How they can swallow that?”

“I wonder if they liked it and start to haunt the monster themselves.”

“In that case, they should go to the north and haunt the monster there.”

Dawn chuckled. “That’s a good idea,” she said.