Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 187

Chapter 187: THE POISON
Archie knew there was something off, but he couldn’t put his finger on it. This was… to easy. They had infiltrated the capital city and took down the palace by noon and now they were heading toward the dungeon, where Zander kept Aurel’s body.

From the information that they got from elder Isaac, king Zander kept Aurel’s body and had not yet done anything to her, because there was still this dispute between the two kingdoms.

And there, Aurel’s dead body was.

Pyro must have done something to preserve her body, so it was still not decaying even after a few weeks had passed.

“This is the woman that you wanted to retrieve?” Blake asked, he knew Aurel. She was the royal healer and the recent news about how she was a magic user was a quite shocking, since people knew her as a healer.

“Yes…”

Blake crossed his arms. He couldn’t care less about this woman. He only wanted to get Dawn and return to their pack. He was the alpha now alpha Tony had fled, what a coward…

However, he couldn’t find her. Understandably, because she must be in the hunting ground, but her baby was not here as well.

At the very least, if the baby was here, he could use the little one to lure her out. Blake knew Dawn, she wouldn’t let anything happen to her baby…

That baby shouldn’t have existed in the first place. It should be his baby that Dawn gave birth to. But, it was fine… they could fix everything now.

“What are you going to do with this body?” Blake glanced at the dead body and felt disgusting.

Archie didn’t answer him, he simply took out the magic stone and create a portal, where Jared and Vemion entered.

“Great. Great…” Vemion sighed with feeling. “We are in the palace, aren’t we?”

“Yes, my king,” Archie replied solemnly, though Blake doubted that he thought of Vemion as his king, since Archie only followed what Jared said.

Jared walked toward the slab where Aurel’s dead body laid down motionlessly. He stared at the woman and grinned.

Jared actually cut opened Aurel’s chest. Blake thought blood would spurt from her opened chest, but it didn’t happen, instead, there was no more blood there.

And then, the next thing that Blake had to witness made his stomach sick.

Jared ripped Aurel’s heart and ate it. He ate that as if he ate a lamb meat.

Blake couldn’t handle the sight and turned around to avoid the gruesome thing that occurred, but to his surprised, king Vemion didn’t seem bother when he watched the whole thing, as if this was not something new for him.

The sound of it was very sickening when the head of the dragon sect munched on Aurel’s heart.

“You handle her,” Jared said, he pointed at Aurel.

Blake didn’t know how long this madness occurred, but once it was done, Jared asked Archie to do something to Aurel’s dead body and then left with King Vemion. He patted Blake’s shoulder on his way out. Saying that he had done a great job.

“What the hell is that?!” Blake asked Archie, he glanced at Aurel.

“Don’t worry. We only need to dispose the body now,” Archie replied, he hummed when he approached Aurel’s body, but then a frown was formed on his face. “What is this?”

“What now?” Blake asked. He didn’t want to approach him and watch the dead body, but he was curious enough to know what made him bewildered like that.

“Why her body turned purple?”

“How should I know? Didn’t your leader do something to her aside from eating her heart?” Blake looked upset because he was not warned.

“No… what is this?” Archie lowered his head to take a closer look on the purplish liquid inside Aurel’s body.

He flicked the purple liquid with his finger and then licked it. Blake grimaced to see that.

“Nobody ever told you not to eat something that you didn’t know?”

Archie tilted his head, but then he dropped to the ground. He was breathing heavily, clutching his chest while trying to breath.

Seeing this, Blake immediately came to approach him.

“What happened with you?!”

“P- Poison…”

Aurel’s dead body had been poisoned and now Blake could smell this rancid scent in the air. This made his stomach churned.

“Get out from here… it’s poison…” Archie gasped for air.

Because Archie couldn’t walk, Blake had to drag him out of there with this rancid smell was getting stronger, it filled the air inside the room, but it also followed them out.

The smell spread so fast.

Meanwhile, Jared started to feel it too. He ate part of Aurel’s body, after all. However, the affect was not as strong as Archie had. He felt this discomfort in his system.

“There is something wrong,” Jared said.

“What is it?” Vemion asked, they were walking toward the throne room, where he would indulge himself there, the position that should be his. That was his birthright. “Not now, Jared.”

Vemion hastened his pace and there, in the throne room, his eyes glimmered to see the throne.

“This is perfect.” He climbed the platform and sat there, as he looked down at the other magic users, who had been waiting inside the room.

The palace was done and now everything belonged to him.

However, Jared felt something was off. He tried to use his magic, but it flickered. His magic was still there, but it didn’t feel right, as if it faded from him.

Not long after, all the people inside the room could smell this rancid scent. Blake and Archie came not long after to inform them about what happened.

“Someone must have poisoned the dead body, knowing we will come.” Jared’s face turned very dark.

They tried to use the shield, but it was to no avail, because the poison was in the air right now and there was no way they could block the air and suffocated themselves.