Beast King's Crippled Mate-Chapter 302: Dark Witch’s Invasion (II)

"We’re not here for that, Your Majesty. We understand your grief over Queen Swan, but we’re here because you’re in danger!" Blaze reported with his chest rising up and down. He tried to catch his breath as he—and the rest of the army rushed as fast as they could to reach the Beast King before the dark witch.

"A danger?" Gale frowned. "I can sense the footsteps of a massive human army and a few beastmen tribes. Tell me what is the situation, and why are they heading towards Sacred Selene Lake at the same time?"

"There’s a dark witch who controls all of them. The capital city in the Kingdom of Beastmen is empty right now because the dark witch brainwashed them all; the humans, beastmen tribes, and the beastmen in our kingdom, including all the children, Your Majesty!"

Gale’s body tensed the moment Blaze mentioned ’children.’

When he lived his bachelor life without Swan, he didn’t regard females as any different than males. They were all the same subjects for him.

But after he married Swan, he realized that both female beastman and humans have different needs than males, and he allowed Swan to make a few rules for the female beastmen so they would be safer, and that change did bring a good impact on the Kingdom of Beastmen. More female beastmen were interested in having more cubs due to their safety and privilege.

Now that he had a child with his beloved, his fatherly instinct also grew, and the idea of innocent cubs getting brainwashed and turned into a mindless meat shield was enough to anger him.

His muscles tightened as he unsheathed his claws, ready to kill the dark witch who caused this mess.

"Who’s that dark witch? Have you seen her face?" Gale asked his beta. "I will rip her to shreds and end this madness."

"That would be me."

Gale looked up and saw a woman wearing a cloak with poisonous mist coming out from under it. She also wore a hood that covered half of her face, but Gale knew who she was instantly.

Not from her voice, but from her scent.

It was the same dung-scented woman, whom he kicked out of Swan’s life entirely.

"Aria of Holy Achate."

Aria grinned when she heard him calling her name. It sounded so sultry and it genuinely made her feel a little itchy.

"So you still remember me after you ruined my life, huh?" Aria sneered. "But it is fine. I’m here to make it even between us."

Gale gritted his teeth. He jumped high until he was right in front of Aria who floated mid-air.

He used his deadly gaze to kill her, but Aria quickly used the dark mist to cover her eyes. Thus, Gale took the opportunity to slash her body.

Unfortunately, Aria had already used her power to turn her physical body into dark mist, so no physical attack worked on her.

Gale landed on a tree branch and yelled at her, "I always knew you have a cold and dark heart, but I didn’t expect you to manifest your negative power and become a real dark witch."

"And it is you who caused that, Gale Stormfront," Aria stated.

"Because I kicked you out of your kingdom?" Gale scoffed. "Heh, that’s a light punishment for what you did. You bullied my wife growing up, and her leg became crippled because of you. Had it not been for her who begged to forgive you, I would’ve killed you instantly."

"Do you think I became a dark witch just because I’ve been kicked out of the palace? Hm~ You are always the same, Gale. So simple, and charming," Aria chuckled. "To become a great witch like me, I need to have all of the seven deadly sins inside of me, and you—Gale Stormfront—are the source of all my sins. I envy Swan for having you, and I admit that I have greed, because I want to have you by my side. And as for lust... you should know what I want from you, right?"

Gale saw how Aria licked her lips while caressing her belly, signaling that she wanted to be pregnant with his offspring as well. Gale shuddered out of disgust immediately. He already felt sick thinking how Aria had been fantasizing about him the whole time even though he was married to Swan.

"You’re free of the curse, so Swan is not the only one you can impregnate now," Aria said. "I can bear your offspring as well, Gale.

"You’re sick. Why would I want to breed a woman like you when I have Swan, my own fated mate? You’re just an inferior version of her," Gale spat harshly, and the grin on Aria’s lips vanished instantly.

"You really know how hurt my heart, Gale. But it’s okay, I understand that you are not going to leave Swan for me," Aria said. Her voice was shaking for a few seconds before she collected her composure and added, "That’s why I came here to finally make you mine."

"What do you mean?"

Aria turned around and pointed at the massive army of humans and beastmen she had gathered. She already did a rough count, and there were almost one million people down there, including citizens from many big cities whom she killed and turned into undead, alongside the beastmen tribes she brainwashed into becoming her mindless fighting animal as well.

"I’ve gathered a massive amount of humans and beastmen, including all the children since I know you’d care for them the most. Do you think you can fight them all?" Aria chuckled as she felt this sadistic urge to make Gale admit his defeat and submit to her. "I know you can kill all of them easily if you want to, but what would you do to the kids? Are you cruel enough to kill them too? I bet Swan will be REALLY upset if you kill the children since she is the daughter of the Goddess."