The King's Unbreakable Wife-Chapter 294: Greater good (2)

Berkeley didn’t see why Tobias had to exit the room. He was ready to do a demonstration of what he had discovered so far. While the men from the court had been quite useful in helping him to find people to test on, the king was the person with real power to bring a lot more to further his ideas.

With the king’s help, Berkeley knew that medicine and what he could do would improve so much more. Others only needed to be willing to take the risk.

Berkeley followed Tobias out of the room, finding the king leaning on a wall like he would pass out. "Do you find the small space to be uncomfortable? I put in a request for a larger room but I was not told of the outcome yet."

Tobias couldn’t believe his ears that the doctor thought the issue came from the room being small. "Does your nose not work to not be able to smell that rotten flesh?"

Berkeley looked back at the room. There used to be a smell which made him have to leave the room a few times a day, but he took care of the problem. "I have been inhaling something I believe shall rid your nose of the ability to smell scents. It is working quite well but my ability to smell comes back often. I am missing something."

Tobias took in as much fresh air as he could to try to rid his nose of the smell and then turned to the doctor. "What is it that causes the smell?"

"To put us years ahead of where we are now, I need to have tests. As the king, you should understand that a few sacrifices are needed for us to be able to cure others. I believe that one was a maid," Berkeley said, not certain since he opened her head. Her face no longer came to mind.

Tobias laughed, not because he was humoured by Berkeley, but because he had come across another sick twisted soul. The doctor was messed up in the head because, for some reason, he saw what he had done as good for the kingdom. Seeming to believe that his king would allow him to continue.

Tobias wanted their medicines to improve and for doctors to understand their bodies better but not at this price. Berkeley wasn’t using those already dead but was killing the innocent. "Guards!" Tobias yelled to the men he passed. "Take the doctor to the dungeon."

"My king," Berkeley said, shocked by the order. "I have been working hard to bring you good news and now I finally have it. You have no idea what I can do to put us years ahead of where we are now. Their sacrifices will not be-"

"What gave you the fucking right to sacrifice my people?" Tobias questioned, grabbing Berkeley by his neck and pushing him against the wall. "Experiment on yourself for all I care but nothing good could come from work that involves killing the innocent."

What idiot thought to bring this doctor into the palace? Tobias knew that the palace searched high and low for all kinds of special doctors but what could Berkeley have said for anyone to believe in what he could do?

"There are many who believe in my work and hope that I can find the solution to their problems. I tried to use the bodies of those who were already dead, but live tests are better. I can understand the body better when I watch it slowly die-"

"Enough!" Tobias yelled, not wanting to hear any more of the doctor’s sick ways.

"We are currently at war with the people at the border. If you can get a few barbarians still alive, I can do my work with them-"

Berkeley was silenced by Tobias’s fist connecting with the left side of his face.

Though they were at war, Tobias wasn’t so cruel to have his enemies face whatever the doctor had in mind. No one should ever be used that way.

Tobias let go of Berkeley so the guards could hold him. He didn’t want to but he had no choice but to enter the room again. "Call for men from the court to look into this room. Place him somewhere in the dungeon where he is not near anyone," he said.

Tobias didn’t trust Berkeley to keep his hands to himself and not try to do some sort of test on who he might share a cell with.

"What I did was for the greater good of this kingdom. Medicine and how we heal people cannot be better if we are not willing to do a few tests. I would have thought that the king would understand the value of what I can do," Berkeley said, greatly disappointed with Tobias. "No one will understand my work better than me."

If Berkeley couldn’t be the one to continue what he discovered, then he would not help someone else to understand it. The kingdom would have to do without him and not make any advances.

"A king who allows you to harm his people is not a king I want to be. Did you kill the queen’s maid?" Tobias questioned as it seemed likely that Berkeley would have killed Lynn to have her body but someone found her before she could be brought here.

Berkeley had nothing to hide about what he had done. He had done it for the people he looked to heal in the future. "I was not the one to kill her. She followed him here and ended up getting hit with a bottle. Your mother should have watched her maids more carefully. Her maid came here to ask about your wife."

"It was Jane?" Tobias questioned, surprised to know that this was what happened to her. He was only thinking of Lynn right now. "Of course."

Of course, his mother’s maid died while being curious about something concerning Hazel. This only proved he had made the right decision to no longer be around his mother.