Beast King's Crippled Mate-Chapter 268: Sowing Discord

Lady Jade—who was in Meredith’s body—spat on Alice’s face as well to make sure that she got the last laugh from this stupid bunny. She tossed her head to the pig den and watched as her head was getting eaten clean by the pig.

She turned her head towards the castle, and grinned, "I am back, Gale. Don’t worry, I won’t make the same mistake this time. I will win against that crippled bitch, even if she is the true Saintess or whatever."

’Don’t forget your true mission, Lady Jade,’ The necklace with the pink pendant she wore glinted as Aria communicated telepathically using the pendant as the connector. ’I want you to sow even more discord between Gale and Swan, and then use the pink pendant’s special power to seduce Gale into kissing you.’

Jade rolled her eyes. She had long wanted to kill Aria since that bitch kept ordering her around like she was a good little servant.

Unfortunately, Jade couldn’t do that, because she relied on Aria to get a new body every year or two.

Two days ago, Jade received a pink pendant from Aria. She said that it was infused with powerful dark magic that could hypnotize even the Beast King, bypassing the protection from the Moon Goddess.

Jade was skeptical and didn’t believe it could work, as she had witnessed how mighty Gale truly was.

But if this item could help her sowing even more discord between Swan and Gale, then Jade didn’t care.

Besides, she couldn’t really ’die’ now.

If Jade got killed in this body, her soul would just return to Aria, and Aria could just put her soul in another body without a problem. She didn’t need to fear anything, not even death.

Nevertheless, Jade was still annoyed that she had to do all this. She was used to ordering people, not the other way around.

’Why don’t you do this yourself instead of making me do it? You have some amazing witchcraft. You can succeed just fine without me,’ Jade protested.

’Didn’t I tell you that Swan is THE Saintess? What do you think will happen when she notices me? She can detect my dark energy and probably kill me instantly,’ Aria replied. ’Unlike you, who is basically immortal now. If I die, I will just die, and if—’

’If you die, then my soul will be unable to move from one body to another anymore, right?’ Jade rolled her eyes. She both felt love and hate for her new condition. She loved that she could have a beautiful, young body as her host every year or two. At the same time, she also hated that she was practically under Aria’s mercy.

’Just do what you have to do, and I will continue supplying you with a nice body. Who knows, if you find a beautiful beastman, you can just poison her and I will transfer your soul into the new body.’

That offer was just too tempting for Jade to refuse. She knew it would be hard to get into Gale’s heart since she had been trying for decades to seduce him to no avail.

But with a new body, she would eventually find the one that matched Gale’s taste and he would fall for her immediately, just like how he randomly fell in love with Swan.

Jade continued staring at the castle and muttered, "Alright. Time to set up a believable situation, so they will take me into the castle and meet my Alpha once more."

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Aria chuckled when she finished her conversation with Jade using telepathy. There was a good reason why she sent Jade instead of herself wearing the lust pendant given by Madam Harsetti.

"The Saintess would kill me if I ever showed up again. I can’t afford to lose my witchcraft again, or worse, lose my life," Aria told herself while reading Necronomicon. "But I can send Jade to scout. Once I confirm that the lust pendant works on the Beast King, I can transfer my soul into Meredith’s body instead, and toss Jade’s soul into a random frog or duck nearby."

Aria giggled to herself as she was satisfied with the plan she concocted. Little did she know, a middle-aged woman had been peeking from the gap at the door, staring at her daughter with eyes filled with tears.

Anastasia had been trying to tell her daughter to give up her ambition because there was no point in trying to harm Swan now that they had separate ways.

But of course, Aria refused to listen and insisted on winning against Swan no matter what.

On top of that, things had been very strange ever since she killed all of the villagers.

She resurrected the villagers as undead after killing almost all of them and enslaved the rest who somehow survived the poisoning. The undead villagers worked on their farm and gave all their produce to the mansion.

Aria barred all paths connecting the village to the outside world with her power, so nobody could enter the village, and they could live in ’peace’ even after the villagers were all dead.

Anastasia had been desperately trying to leave the mansion, but again, Aria used her magic to make it impossible for her to ever leave. Whenever Anastasia tried to walk out of the mansion, an invisible barrier would suddenly push her back into the mansion.

Anastasia returned to her room with a pained heart. She sat on her bed, staring at the undead gardener who was tending the garden outside.

It was so bizarre that Anastasia knew she had to put a rest to this madness, or else Aria would turn into a literal devil incarnate.

Anastasia never prayed when she was a queen, but now that she wasn’t a queen anymore, she found herself praying deeply to Goddess Asmara every day.

Anastasia joined her hands and prayed, "Goddess, let me help my daughter. She has been led astray by my mistakes in the past. Please guide me on how to cleanse her mind, so she will be a good daughter for me."