Beast King's Crippled Mate-Chapter 325: A New Beginning

The aftermath of the dark witch’s invasion was far worse than what everyone expected. Aria had killed half of the human population in the continent, emptying most of the big cities, and forcing the people from the villages to move into the city and start taking any homes they wanted.

Naturally, humans were adept at surviving. They began procreating, and the report shown by the representative showed that many women got pregnant fast for the past six months after the invasion.

Gale listened to the report and nodded, "That’s good. Keep your eyes on those humans in each city. Make sure they can repopulate fast. Give them food rations, some gold, and other stuff to start their businesses in the city. We cannot let those kingdoms fall because of this."

"Understood, Your Majesty," the representative bowed and then excused himself.

"How about the beastmen? How many of our kin died?" Gale asked Blaze Silverfang, as he was now officially appointed as the new beta.

Gale thought it was befitting of him to become the new beta, replacing Rock. After all, Blaze had shown such bravery, despite being outclassed by Aria during that invasion. He was also the one who managed everything when Gale was unable to rule the Kingdom of Beastman. He was more than deserving of his title.

"Roughly twenty percent of our population died during the invasion. Most are tribes from outside of the city. Our city suffered only about five percent of the casualties, thanks to Her Majesty’s miracle that revived many of the children," Blaze replied. "As for the human children revived by Her Majesty, they are now in an orphanage inside our kingdom. I believe this is the best thing we can do for them since they lost most of their families when they were turned into undead."

"This is also the best way to integrate them into our society, just like what you told us before, Your Majesty. We should try to accommodate humans into our territory as long as they don’t try to harm us," Blaze said, hoping that he wouldn’t make a mistake that would anger the Beast King. Though, these days, His Majesty has been very calm and collected, as if he didn’t have any burden in life. However, sometimes Blaze saw His Majesty rubbing his thigh where Queen Swan often sat before in the throne room.

’I wonder when will our queen finally return...’ Blaze thought. ’Or will she never return because she is a goddess now?’

Unfortunately, Blaze would never dare to ask those in front of His Majesty, knowing it was a sensitive topic for him.

"You did a good job, Blaze," Gale nodded approvingly. As he was about to listen to the next report, the door opened by the guard, and one of them reported. "Your Majesty, Lady Long has just given birth to her cub!"

Gale sprung up from the seat immediately and walked out of the throne room. He asked the guard as he walked towards a home directly outside of the castle yard. "Is the cub in good health?"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

"Where is Rock then?"

"Rock is in his house, accompanying his wife, who has just given birth!" The guard replied.

Gale smiled, "Good. My wife will be pleased to hear this."

*

Gale knocked on the door and entered the small, but neat home which had just recently been built. The door was opened from inside, and he made eye contact with Rock, who quickly kneeled in front of him.

"Y-Your Majesty, forgive me for not reporting to you about my wife’s labor. I was too worried about her, so I rushed when I heard that my wife was giving birth," Rock said.

"Don’t be so tense with me. I’ve cleared you out of all the charges from before after I found out what truly happened," Gale responded.

Honestly, he still felt guilty after everything that happened between them. His wife was right the whole time, that Rock never intended to harm her. It was all because of Jade’s poison that made him act irregularly.

Thus, when the last battle with the dark witch was finished, Gale accepted Rock back into the kingdom.

Fortunately, when they returned to the castle, Long Xiurong was already there. She said she was engulfed by a radiant light, and once she opened her eyes once more, she was already in the Beast King’s castle.

Rock could’ve easily asked for his position as the beta back, but he recognized the fact that Blaze had done so much when he was away, so he asked the Beast King to give him another work to do and appoint Blaze as the beta instead.

Per his request, Gale appointed Rock to be the Marshal of the entire beastmen military, since he was still the second strongest after Gale. He spent his days overseeing the soldiers, training them so they would always be in their best shape, and also hearing the report of the scouts as they scoured the continent, to ensure there was no more imminent threat that might force their dearest Queen Swan to create another miracle.

After all, the Beast King didn’t want to be separated from his beloved for too long, so it’d be better if he cleaned any threat first so Swan could live comfortably as the Queen of Beast.

That’s right.

Everyone knew that their Queen was now the Goddess of Miracles, but they still loved her as their Queen and hoped that Swan would resume that role.

But nobody missed her more than her husband.

Gale smiled bitterly as he remembered about his beloved, but he tried to ignore this yearning in his heart for now. It was an auspicious day for Rock, he didn’t want to ruin it.

"Get up, and bring me to your wife. I want to see my son’s future playmate," Gale said, and Rock immediately guided his Alpha to his room.

As the door was opened, Gale saw Long Xiurong sitting on the bed, looking tired, but happy. She was carrying her cub, who had just been cleaned and was sleeping peacefully.