Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 177

Chapter 177: PEOPLE FROM HOLY KINGDOM WAS HERE (2)
“So, you are saying, you wanted to compensate me with marriage alliance between two babies?” Zander didn’t know whether he wanted to laugh or insult these imbeciles before his eyes.

On the other hand, Elder Rio looked calm. There was no shred of embarrassment at all when he made the proposal.

He gestured to a woman to step forward, she was a wet nurse with a baby in her arms. A little girl, who was no older than a year old.

“This is Lady Gabriel’s granddaughter. She will be the future leader of the Holy Kingdom.”

“How many years of future we are talking about?” Zander scoffed disdainfully. This was something that he didn’t expect at all.

Meanwhile, king Rowan was sitting next to him, he looked amused with this whole situation. He wished they brought someone to ask for Zaya’s hand instead, but from what he learned about Holy Kingdom, they didn’t have a suitable candidate to be married of for Zaya, instead they stoop so low by proposing a marriage alliance between the baby.

Elder Rio brushed off Zander offhanded comment and then continued to introduce the baby girl, who looked confused. “Her name is Jasmine. She will stay here with her wet nurse until she came to age and is ready for the true ceremony.”

“How do you think this compensate the death of my gamma, elder Rio? By giving a baby? Are you trying to insult me here?”

The elder shook his head. His voice was very polite when he spoke. “Of course not, my king. There is no way I will insult you. We offered you the future leader of the Holy Kingdom as a good gesture for a better future between the two kingdoms.”

“Interesting. I want to see prince Zenith’s reaction when he learned about this,” king Rowan said, as he leaned his back against his chair. His voice was not loud, but it was enough for Zander and Pyro to hear him.

He seemed to enjoy everything that unfolded before his eyes. Of course, he demanded a compensation, but the knight that died during Aurel’s attack was not someone significant. His wrath could be settled with gold, but it was not the same with Zander, since it was his royal gamma, who died that night.

“You do realize that we wait for our destined mate.”

“Yes, I am well aware about that, but then you can take chosen mate as well, if I am not mistaken, just like what prince Zenith did. Correct me if I am wrong.”

What he said was right. Zenith did take Dawn as his chosen mate.

“I don’t accept this.” The answer was blunt and simple. Elder Rio must be delusional if he thought Zander would agree readily for this idea.

“I will give you time to think about this matter over, king Zander.” Elder Rio lowered his head solemnly. He didn’t appear arrogance, but sure enough he was wicked.

“There is nothing to be discussed here. My demand is still the same. I want you to make announcement about what actually had happened and captured the real culprit.”

Elder Rio shook his head. “We can’t make an announcement for something that we didn’t do, king Zander. Holy Kingdom didn’t and will not involve with dark magic, we don’t condone such act.”

“It is laughable knowing your story,” Zander replied sharply.

Once again, elder Rio brushed off Zander’s crude comment.

Decades ago, there was an evil creature named Decratic, who ran rampant in this continent and as it turned out a few people from the Holy Kingdom had some involvement in that devilish creature and the previous king and queen were forced to fight them off, while the people from the Holy Kingdom was not much of help.

What happened that time caused a massive destruction in this continent, which led to how the population of the shifter dwindled significantly.

“This is a sensitive topic, king Zander, I can assure you that our leader is taking all the precaution about the Dragon Sect and we will get the bottom of it.”

“Aurel had been in contact with the said sect. Apparently, the sect came from your continent. How could you explain that?”

“The knowledge is shocking, but I assured you that we are working on that.”

“With no result even after this long? I wondered whether you, people from the Holy Kingdom, are not competent, or simply obtuse.”

King Rowan laughed at that remark, he didn’t even shy away from his blatant disrespect toward the elder from the Holy Kingdom.

If previously, he was not really interested in king Zander and only wanted to make a good deal for the steel, right now he liked him a little bit.

Elder Rio’s face turned red, but he was an expert when it came to compose himself and was being very patient with the insult.

“My king, it will take time to handle such sect. We need to investigate more.”

“Announce it so people will learn about this Dragon Sect.” Zander tilted his head. “And I want to have a meeting with leader Gabriel and the king of Andel Kingdom.”

As annoying as it sounded, Holy Kingdom still held power over anything related to magic. The impact of the announcement would be different if it came from the Holy Kingdom, instead of him.

“We can’t announce that, it will cause unnecessary chaos among the people.”

“Is that your only reason, or is it because you don’t want the image of the Holy Kingdom is tarnished even further?”

What happened with Decratic was a dark history for Holy Kingdom that they didn’t want to talk about. They had been trying to build their image back, thus by announcing another sect of magic user that came from Andel Continent, it would put their great effort into shambles.

Therefore, they used all method to appease Zander, namely; offering a baby for a marriage alliance.

“Speaking of witch,” king Rowan interrupted. “What will be my compensation?” he asked casually.