Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 161

Chapter 161: ZANDER PLAYED A LONG GAME
“I found the same scent from one of the knight’s belongings,” Darius reported. He had been asked by Dawn to check on the scent that attracted the monster and he found it.

“Are you sure?” Zander asked.

The seven of them were inside Zander’s tent, discussing about this revelation.

“I am. I smelled it once in the first attack. I recognized it when I encountered it again.”

Dawn then told them about her conversation with Lyra and the connection with the west people, who tried to topple down Zander’s reign.

But, when Dawn mentioned Jason’s name, aside from Zaya, they didn’t seem to be surprised.

“You don’t look surprised,” Dawn noted.

“We have suspected Jason for long,” Zenith said. “In fact, we have gotten in touch with gamma Alex.”

Gamma Alex was her father’s gamma, he used to be away and handled the trade, but Dawn was not surprised too, because in the first life, Zenith also got in touch with Alex for some business.

“Thank you for your help, little sister,” Zander said, as he ruffled Dawn’s hair, but Zenith caught his hand.

“What are you doing?” He swatted his hand away and combed Dawn’s messy hair because of Zander. “I think we are done here,” Zenith said and then took Dawn’s hand to go back to their tent.

Darius followed his alpha and luna.

“He looked like he is going to kill me…” Zander sighed and turned to Zaya. “Don’t you want to hug me?” He opened his arms widely.

“Don’t be ridiculous,” Zaya said. “I am going back to my tent.”

“My siblings don’t love me anymore,” Zander said, he clicked his tongue, but Pyro could only roll his eyes.

Yet, once there was only the two of them, Zander took off his golden mask, his expression was serious and his blue eyes were sharp.

“Have you had everything prepared?” he asked, his voice was rather cold.

“Yes.” Pyro nodded. “There is another letter from the Holy Kingdom that demanded princess Zaya to return to Andel Continent, because she should have returned months ago. They also demanded for Aurel to be returned to them and also about the magic stone…”

Apparently, because the magic stone that they could get was only from the west, as they were the only distributor for the meantime, the price skyrocketed to the point it didn’t make any sense at all.

“Zan, don’t you think that this will be back fired at us?” Pyro had been worrying about this matter. “You helped them to get the money to build the new kingdom.”

“Yes, but not for long.” Zander crossed his arms.

Magic stone was essential for magic user because they couldn’t use their magic without it, no matter how powerful you were. The healer also used magic stone, but not all the time, thus they were not really relied on it.

However, the magic users couldn’t do anything without it and the only magic stones mines were in this continent, while the main consumer of the magic stone was people from Andel Continent. Therefore, the relationship between the two continents were rather complicated, especially with the merchant from Karam continent, who did the trade with magic stone, it complicated thing even more.

But, there was one thing that Vemion miscalculated.

While fire magic stones were more expensive than earth and water magic stone, this kind of magic stone was rare. If Vemion kept exhausted the source at this rate, he would be left without anything to dig for more than ten years from now.

“So, you waited until they ran out of the magic stone in their mines? But, for how long?” Pyro looked disagreed with Zander, but he had to admit, this plan would be effective in the long run, as the west relied so much on this fire magic stone mines.

“You heard it yourself that they raised the price to ridiculous amount,” Zander said. “It’s not because they wanted to get more benefit, but they started running out of it.”

The distribution of fire magic stone in the market started dwindling and Pyro had reported it himself.

“Let’s wait and see,” Zander said, as he caressed his golden mask. His eyes dimmed.

The next day, early in the morning after they had their breakfast, they continued their travel to the capital city and reached the palace before noon.

The entourage of the knights from Marca El caught everyone’s attention, since this was the first time for other people to see the knight from that continent, especially with this huge number.

They were fascinated by their armors and their war horses, little children hid behind their mother’s back when they saw the knights, because they looked very scary in their eyes.

Once they arrived at the palace, the maid servants tended to them. Their lunches would be sent to their room, while they would have dinner together later.

“You shouldn’t have stayed here for long, Zaya.” Elder Isaac approached Zaya before she entered her bedroom. “You shouldn’t have indulged your brother’s craziness and convince him to send Aurel back to Andel.”

“He is going to send her back, the only think that he wanted is justice, poisoning the king is a crime that’s worse than a treason and using black magic is a crime that granted a death punishment. Aurel did both and Holy Kingdom refused to take responsibility of it. What my brother did is justified.”

Elder Isaac’s face turned red when Zaya called him out on his bullshit.

“Zaya, you grew up in Holy Kingdom, you lived there for years, you know how vital magic stone is for our people, yet you did nothing to help us.” Elder Isaac changed his approached, but Zaya wouldn’t buy it.

“I grew up there, because you kept me there, telling me that I have to learn how to use magic, since I am a magic user and I can’t even return to my homeland because my father and mother trapped inside the Great Shrine.”