Replacement Bride for the Alpha of the North - Chapter 40

Chapter 40: ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL THE KING?!
If it was any other day, Darius would laugh to see how Aurel got humbled very quickly, but not in this situation. They were too tense to know the king’s condition.

Zenith could replace him for a week or two, or even more than that, but obviously, he couldn’t play the role for the rest of his life if something really happened to his brother.

More so, the death of the king would push the kingdom into utter chaos, it would jeopardize a lot of things.

But even more, Zenith wouldn’t be able to leave unscathed.

People who wanted to take him down would attribute the king’s death with the fact Zenith was there. It would implicate him in the long run.

There was a reason why Zander and Zenith created an image that the two of them didn’t get along well with each other, when in truth, behind the shadows, the twins often worked together and this was not the first time for Zenith to take the role as the king when Zander had to leave the palace incognito.

“Is that a threat?” Aurel gritted her teeth.

“That’s a reminder.” Dawn pushed Aurel out of her way and sat down on the edge of the bed. “Can you be quiet? You have talked too much already, don’t you think?”

Dawn couldn’t understand the blind hatred that Aurel harbored toward her. Yes, she did know that this healer had a crush on Zenith or something, but did she think by hating her, Zenith would like her instead?

Lance took the initiative to get to Aurel’s side and talk in a low voice to her, he looked stern when he handled this healer.

It took Dawn a while when she checked on Zander. Her brows furrowed and she tried to remember the lesson that she learned from the healer in her pack. It was not easy since she was not born as a healer, there was this healing power that only someone born as a healer could use.

“What did you give to the king?” Dawn frowned, she looked at Aurel sharply. “What did you feed him?”

“Of course, I fed him medicine! What do you think I gave him?”

Dawn rolled her eyes. “Be specific.”

Aurel looked annoyed, but thankfully Zenith took the matter into his own hands and asked Pyro to give him Zander’s health record.

“You can’t show it to her.”

“Do you have any objections?” Zenith literally growled at the healer, which turned her into a meek woman.

Pyro couldn’t ignore the order, thus he immediately fetched the king’s health record and gave it to Zenith, which he gave to Dawn.

The royal beta didn’t like this, because the king’s health record was not something that you could see casually and not everyone was allowed to read that, but he couldn’t say anything.

Dawn immediately skimmed the record and was surprised to see the last medicine that Aurel gave to Zander.

“Are you stupid?!” Dawn snapped at the healer fiercely. “Why did you give him Agonalia powder?!”

“What? What happened?” Lance immediately looked at Aurel. All of them were startled with Dawn’s sudden anger.

“Th- that’s because the King has been in so much pain, I gave it to him to alleviate the pain!” Aurel screamed back at Dawn. She knew what she was doing.

“How could you be the royal healer?” Dawn said sharply, which made Aurel visibly flinch.

“What is wrong?” Zenith asked, to see Dawn distraught like this, it was not a good sign.

Dawn then explained that while Agonalia powder could alleviate the pain, it would also have a calming effect, which meant, Zander didn’t realize that his body was starting to get worse. In some cases, you couldn’t not feel any pain at all, while the pain could be an indicator whether the medicine that was given had an effect or not.

In this case, even when the medicine didn’t work and originally Zander would be in so much pain because of that, he was not able to know because Aurel gave Agonalia powder to numb his ability to feel his own body.

“But… but the King was in so much pain… And that’s the right procedure,” Aurel said. In a different case, she was right, but they were facing a slow acting poison right now.

“You really need to get down from your high horse and learn about poison,” Darius commented and he got a dagger look from the healer, but unfortunately for her, the gamma stood by his alpha’s woman. He didn’t care much about her.

Pyro immediately got something from the cabinet and handed it to Dawn. It was the Brettel flower that she requested a few days ago.

“Can you save him?” His expression was very serious. Aurel had proven that she couldn’t and this matter was very far beyond her capabilities.

“This is not enough,” Dawn said, she shook her head.

“What else do you need? Tell me.” Pyro was usually a calm and level headed person, but even Dawn could tell how anxious he was. “Tell me and I will get it for you.”

“First, you need to extract the effect of Agonalia powder from his body.” Dawn looked at Aurel. She needed to do it by using her healing power, since there was no way Dawn could do it.

“But, he will be in so much pain.” Aurel was not happy to receive an order from Dawn.

“Didn’t you listen to my explanation earlier?”

“What is it?” Lance asked, preventing this unnecessary argumentation. “What else do you need?”

Dawn ignored Aurel’s outburst and focused on the matter at hand. “There are these two things that I need to make a concoction with.” She mentioned Treann Birch and the skin of Elbrone fish.

“What is that?” Darius had never heard the things that Dawn mentioned. “Where can we get that?”

“We have Treann Birch,” Aurel said begrudgingly. “But, you will not be able to find the skin of Elbrone fish. Most people in this continent don’t eat fish.”

“No. I didn’t say it’s a literal fish.” Dawn explained that it was a plant that generally grew in swamps.

Aurel was too ashamed to say that she didn’t know anything about that, thus she shut her mouth.

“For the meantime, you can expel the effect of Agonalia powder from the King’s body. I will try to prevent the poison from getting worse,” Dawn said. She then took the Brettel flowers and asked Zenith to show her where the kitchen was. She was going to make a concoction.

It wouldn’t dispel all the poison, since it had spread to Zander’s vital organs, but it was enough to prevent it from flaring up.

“Wait, I will show you…” Darius was about to go with Dawn, but Zenith stopped him.

“Come with me,” Zenith said, he guided her out of the room and the two of them went to the south part of the palace.

“He shouldn’t go with her so casually like that.” Darius was concerned that this would give rise to a rumor between the king and Dawn. People then would come after Zenith so hard and use this opportunity to create trouble again.

But then, Darius could only sigh deeply.

“What are you waiting for?” Pyro asked Aurel. “Do as she said.” He frowned at Aurel, who didn’t do anything and only stood there quietly.

“Do you really believe her?”

“Do you have another option?” Pyro narrowed his eyes. “You might be useful for Zenith, but misdiagnosing the King and causing his demise is the highest crime that you need to think about.”

Aurel didn’t say anything anymore and went to do what Dawn told her. She was not happy. But at the same time, she wondered how could Dawn be very knowledgeable about poison when she was not even a healer?

On the other hand, all the omegas in the kitchen trembled in fear when they saw the king. They immediately knelt down and were too afraid to even breathe a little louder, especially with the aloof and cold aura that emanated from the sovereign.

“M- my King… do you need something?” The head of the kitchen asked in fear. Even though they lived in the palace, it didn’t mean they were privileged to see the king all the time.

“All of you can leave,” Zenith said. He waved his hand and all of them immediately left the kitchen.

“You don’t need to look so scary, you know.” Dawn felt bad for those people, but she started to prepare the things that she needed.

Meanwhile, Zenith sat down on the chair, he didn’t take off his golden mask, but Dawn was able to see that he had closed his eyes.

“You don’t need to accompany me here,” Dawn said, thinking Zenith might be tired with a lot of things that he had to handle.

However, when Dawn saw him not budging from his position, she could only sigh and continue with her task.

Zenith woke up around an hour later and watched Dawn from behind, he asked a few questions about the concoction.

This concoction was not easy to make, because she needed to make sure the heat was stable and she had to stir it without stopping for three hours straight.

“Three hours?” Zenith immediately stood up. “You should tell someone else to do it.”

Dawn couldn’t see his expression, but she could hear how pissed he was.

“No, can’t. It’s too complicated.”

“How long have you been standing here for?”

“An hour.”

It left her with two more hours.