Chosen Mate of the Beastmen Empire by Lewis Reed

Chapter 338

The monkey's fist hesitated for a moment and didn't land on the Sea Race guard's face

The murmuring crowd turned their attention to Nyx and Zayne. Almost instinctively, they stepped aside to clear a path for

them.

For many, this was the first time seeing Nyx clearly in her human form, and they couldn't help but be amazed by her beauty. But that wasn't the main concern right

now.

"Everybody, quiet down."

"Zayne is the great Shaman. Maybe he can cure him?

"Let him take a look, quick."

People started to believe that the poisoned monkey cub could be saved, and the tense, suffocating vibe began to lift.

The Sea Race members, even more so, looked at them as if they'd just found their saviors.

In the middle of the chaos, Nyx's sharp gaze locked onto the troublemaker. She studied his expression carefully. There wasn't the slightest hint of relief in his eyes. Instead, she caught a flicker of panic.

"Let me check on him," Zayne said as he set down his bamboo basket and walked toward the monkey cub, who was rolling on the ground.

His father took half a step forward, hesitating. He wanted to say something but couldn't find a reason to refuse. In the end, he could only suppress his unease and stand awkwardly to the side.

The little monkey was still clutching his stomach, crying out in pain.

Zayne patiently examined him, and then lifted his eyes to exchange a glance with Nyx.

Just as they expected, the cub was perfectly healthy. No illness, no poison.

His acting, however, was impressive. The way he mimicked stomach pain was so convincing that he was doing a better job than his father.

With this level of talent, if he'd been born in the right era, he could've been a well- known actor. Even Nyx had to admit his performance was almost flawless.

But the people of this primitive society had simpler minds. They weren't used to deception like this, nor had they ever seen such skilled acting. Naturally, they got played like fools and believed every word the father and son said.

To Nyx, though, this was nothing more than a crude and poorly staged scam-one that would fall apart at the slightest push.

When the troublemaker met Nyx's gaze, a drop of cold sweat slid down his temple. He clenched his fists and swallowed hard. A bad feeling crept up his spine.

He thought, "This little female... her eyes are way too calm and sharp. She's not like those idiots at all. No... it's fi

'Even if they figure out there's no poison, so what? I already told my son-no matter what, he has to insist that his stomach hurts. As long as he acts well enough and they can't find anything wrong, I can just say this Shaman is incompetent..."

As he schemed, his eyes darted back and forth, but Nyx suddenly spoke, cutting off his thoughts, "The poison's this serious? We need to induce vomiting right away."

"Beau," Zayne seamlessly played along, calling out to his apprentice, who had been peeking through the crowd. "Go fetch

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some emetics."

"V-vomiting?" The troublemaker panicked, thrown off completely. "Why does he need to vomit?"

experienced throwing up before-it was definitely not a pleasant feeling. They thought, 'Is she trying to torture his son

poisoned, we have to get it all out," Zayne

voices in the crowd

wild fruit once. Had to

"Throwing up fixes it."

the Shaman. He's just trying to

everyone talking over him, the troublemaker's protests got drowned out. His voice grew weaker and weaker until he finally shut up, his face

too closely. Even if he wanted to escape with his son now,

They were completely trapped.

on his feet. He didn't make the crowd wait long, nor did he give the

need Nyx's instructions-he knew exactly what to

the emetic later, the little monkey let out a wail, his face scrunching up in bitterness as he choked

perfectly fine stomach twisted violently. Clutching his chest, he doubled over and threw

unbothered by the mess, stood by calmly, waiting for him to finish throwing up. Once he was done, Beau handed him

common process for handling food poisoning, not a deliberate

attempts, the little monkey threw up repeatedly. Unable to bear the torment any longer, he screamed,

body against him, and screamed accusations. "You said I'd get sweet fruit if I pretended to have

mouth, the crowd erupted in shock. The onlookers immediately exploded in

'What does this mean? Did he say he was acting? If the stomach ache is fake, then the poisoning been

they had been tricked, the crowd

and guards of the Sea Race Tribe's

by the commotion earlier, they nearly doubted themselves, almost falling for the tricks of this father-son

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crashing had mixed the salt, which had originally

ground, they felt as if their hearts had

a punctured balloon, lost all their earlier arrogance. Ignoring the dirt, one of them pressed their son's mouth shut

with a strange taste. The chieftain greedily

rushed to buy the salt from the Sea Race Tribe, which was considered high-quality and affordable. Only the tribes that couldn't get enough

This

lot of

even expensive salt had sold without issue, but this year was different. If they bought enough salt from the

didn't want to let

few words, the truth was clear. The victim had turned into

and son toward

too. The group stormed off with

Tribe's chieftain stayed behind, watching them

finally

calmed himself, and bowed to Nyx, Zayne, and Beau,

had succeeded, not only would all the goods at the stall be

of the salt at the stall had been ruined. Though it could still be filtered, boiled, and reused for basic consumption, it wasn't the same as the clean sea

mind the quality." He couldn't offer any other fine

glanced up and quickly stopped him. "Keep it for yourself. She's already so

his eyes showed an unmistakable affection as he looked at the

child had been begging to play with Nyx

bringing salted fish as a gift. At

helped

never stop his daughter from playing

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