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.”

panicked, thrown off completely. “Why does he

up before–it was definitely not a pleasant feeling. They thought, ‘Is she trying to torture

have to get it all

few voices in the crowd

of wild fruit once.

up fixes

He’s just trying to help

got drowned out. His voice grew

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

completely

feet. He didn’t make the crowd wait long, nor did he give

didn’t even need Nyx’s instructions–he knew exactly what

his face scrunching up in bitterness as he choked

rinse out the taste, his perfectly fine stomach twisted violently. Clutching his chest, he doubled over and threw up all over the ground.

quickly retreated, keeping a safe distance

mess, stood by calmly, waiting for him to finish throwing up. Once he was done, Beau handed him some water to rinse his

a common process for handling food poisoning, not

bear the torment any longer, he screamed, “I’m not acting anymore. I’m not acting anymore. I’m never

him, and screamed accusations. “You said I’d get sweet fruit if I pretended to have a stomach ache. You didn’t tell me I’d have to take

these words left his mouth, the crowd erupted in shock. The onlookers

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

they had been tricked, the crowd

guards of the Sea Race Tribe’s fury

commotion earlier, they nearly doubted themselves, almost falling for

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mixed the salt, which had originally been pure and white, with the sand, making

as if their hearts had been torn by this father

their earlier arrogance. Ignoring the dirt, one of them pressed their son’s mouth shut and

though it was poor quality, with a strange taste.

gathering people rushed to buy the salt from the Sea Race Tribe, which was considered high- quality

This

lot of salted fish. The troublemaker lowered

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

didn’t want to let this opportunity

The victim had turned into the liar

Sea Race Tribe, pushed the father and son

stall too. The group stormed off with great momentum.

Tribe’s chieftain stayed behind, watching them

finally quieted

let out a deep sigh, calmed himself, and bowed to Nyx, Zayne, and Beau, thanking them sincerely. “Thanks to your help, we don’t know what would have

would all the goods at the stall be lost, but they might have had

stall had been ruined. Though it could still be filtered, boiled, and reused for basic consumption, it wasn’t the same

a large bundle of salted fish and dried seaweed, and stuffed them into the hands of the three. “Take these.

offer any other fine gifts, so this would have

generosity, Nyx accepted the bundle of gifts and, feeling a bit