Extra's Harem: Invincibility Starts with Marriage and lots of Children-Chapter 43 - - Progeny Stone (1)

Away from the royal palace, within the inner mantle level of the capital city, stood the mansions of the aristocracy.

These were the homes of nobles who either came here to rest, enjoy the city’s facilities, or engage in political maneuvering far from their designated territories.

The size and grandeur of each mansion reflected the family’s wealth and influence, and in this particular layer of the city, the concentration of power was palpable.

Among these mansions was one that belonged to a family whose name carried prestige and connections with the present Second Queen of the Azure Flame kingdom—the Wei Family.

Today, the usual silence of this mansion was shattered.

The halls were filled with people, their murmurs creating an uneasy buzz.

At the center of it all lay the body of a young man, lifeless and still.

Seated beside him was a woman, her voice ringing out in a loud, exaggerated wail.

"No, my son, what happened to you?!" she yelled with eyes shot red, clutching his hand tightly.

But there were no tears on her masked face, only a performative display of grief.

Her eyes trembled frequently as if trying to make sense of everything that happened.

Sharp and calculating, they scanned the room as she yelled, her mind racing.

’Who dared to do this? Who ruined my pawn?’ she thought, her anger simmering beneath the surface.

This young man had been a piece in her game, a tool she had carefully positioned, and now he was gone.

Her jaw tightened as she glared at the crowd, searching for answers.

Two women were seated on their knees with hands trembling, eyes clearly teary as if they were about to be executed for not being able to protect the young master to whom they had been sent to keep an eye by the woman.

Across the room, another woman stood, her lips curled into a faint, almost mocking smile—she was Peng Wei.

At that time, she had been in the slave market, purchasing a useless slave and got disturbed by that handsome man who wanted to pursue her, leading her to show generosity and give him that useless slave she purchased there.

Leaving him there felt like pity, knowing she was unable to reciprocate his feelings for her, but she had to come here after hearing the news of the death of her biggest hurdle.

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She watched the scene with detached amusement, her arms crossed lightly over her chest.

’How amusing,’ she thought. ’All these years, she used that idiot proudly, and now she’s left with nothing but a corpse.’

Her mind drifted back to the past, remembering the moment where, despite being the first mistress, the newly married woman arriving in the family soon enough took control over all the decision-making, leading her to feel frustrated until she became pregnant.

Her husband began to care more for her.

But then everything changed when this woman suddenly declared she was also pregnant.

The memory still stung, remembering how she lost her child while this woman gave birth to this son of hers.

But now, seeing the woman’s facade crack, she felt a twisted sense of satisfaction.

’Karma has a way of coming around,’ she mused silently.

The reddened gaze of the woman flicked toward her, catching the faint smile on her lips.

Her yell faltered for a moment, replaced by a low, seething growl.

’How dare she stand there, looking so smug on her own son’s death, huh?’ she thought, her nails digging into the palm of that corpse’s hand.

The woman felt frustrated losing a pawn, given that the young man was not even her son.

To get her grip on the Wei family, she had faked her pregnancy several years ago, only to steal the real child of this woman, who now seemed happier while unknowingly laughing at her own son’s death.

Given her mission from the other kingdom to act as a spy here, she had never thought that after so much meticulous planning, where she wanted to use this pawn by making him enter the main library of the Royal Palace, everything would come crashing down.

The library, where only royalty were allowed, held a secret book containing the Progeny Stone—an artifact with immense value for her higher-ups.

She had even secured one of the princes of the kingdom for marriage under the Second Queen’s favor, but now her mission had failed with this young man lying dead.

’Who did it?’ Her anger was soaring to another realm, clearly feeling frustrated about how, after coming so close to getting what she wanted, everything was taken away in the blink of an eye, ruining thirty years of careful planning.

"What happened with my son?!" came a voice through the hall room’s door as a man clad in a robe entered, his muscular physique giving him the look of an orc.

Stiff muscles and marks on his skin were evident of his battles, and his eyes were shot red with anger as they settled on the floor where the dead body of his son lay.

Soon enough, a thunderous tsunami of internal energy burst out of his rage, killing intent surging as it filled the whole hall room.

Gasp

"Khuckk!" One after another, the servants who were mortals fell on the floor, clutching their throats as saliva began to drip from their mouths.

Their breath was suffocated, eyes instantly reddening as if they were about to die, their heartbeats increasing rapidly.

"Please, control yourself, dear; these servants have done nothing wrong," came forward Peng Wei.

With her cultivation being in the early second layer, she was able to withstand the killing intent.

Even if she was not a cultivator, her presence was calming.

Most importantly, her husband hadn’t harmed her—she had managed to stay near him as she placed her hand on his arm.

".....Yes," the man said, realizing the effect of his killing intent.

He suppressed it, looking towards the sweating servants before settling his gaze at the center where the woman whom he had married after getting blackmailed to death due to the presence of heart Gu was seated.

His eyes soon enough turned away from her, knowing well that this woman’s politics in his family left him powerless.

He could do nothing considering he and his wife, Peng Wei, had a heart centipede within them.

A single word from her could trigger a reaction that would lead to both of their deaths.

His eyes even looked towards the face of the young man, where there was no sign of his heart Gu killing him, giving him reassurance that someone else had taken his life.

It was a very sad moment where he could not even tell his own wife that the son who died today was hers, causing him to simply hug her.

’Huh?’ Peng Wei, sharp as ever, felt her husband acting in such a way where he should, instead of her, have been consoling that woman.

She turned her head to give a curious glance at the woman seated on the floor.

But instead of a look of grief, she caught a sinister grin on the woman’s face.

Unbeknownst to Peng Wei, she was laughing at her own son’s death, unaware that her husband knew everything yet remained quiet to save all of their lives.

"Who was near him when my son died?" The woman’s voice lifted, ignoring the idiot woman’s eyes as she turned towards those two spies, the women she had arranged to follow her so-called son.

She watched their eyes flinch as both bodies trembled kneeling before her, swiftly kowtowing with their heads crashing to the floor, tears streaming down as they stammered, "M-madam, i-it was Kyle Arcutus’s carriage that was returning from the Northern Territories."

’!?’

"What?!"