Cheat Awakening

"What is all this, and why are you showing them to me?" Myne asked with a feigned air of confusion.

"I... Forget it. If you don't want to help me, say so, why are you pretending to be foolish? Do you think I'm stupid and can't see your true emotions?" Garnet said with a helpless sigh. Although she wanted Myne to help her with the high-level tasks, she shook her head and gave up after a moment's thought.

This was the royal family and kingdom's internal matter, after all, and as a civilian, Myne indeed had no business in it.

Forcing him to clean up their mess would be shameful, no doubt, and unlike her cheap husband, Garnet wasn't thick-skinned enough to ask for help without batting an eye, especially since she had nothing to give in return for his hard work, also deep down she didn't want Myne to do those weird task and put his life in danger.

"Hehehe, you know it's not easy to directly refuse someone's request, especially when the other party is looking at you with such great expectation. I also have to consider your emotions. What if I hurt you and you broke up with me? Where would I find such a beautiful and caring queen like you?" Clone Myne grabbed Garnet's hand, pulled her toward him, and made her sit on his lap.

He locked his arms around her waist and spoke with a chuckle.

"Ahh, I see. So this is why you care so much about my emotions. I didn't expect you to be so shameless. Is the only good thing you see in me that I'm queen?" Garnet asked with a cold expression.

"Now you're going on the wrong track. You have countless wonderful qualities besides being a nice queen.@@novelbin@@

If I start talking about them one by one, I might not be able to finish it in days, and given how busy you are right now, the little free time you have now would be gone in a flash." Myne, whose naughty hands had already found their way inside Garnet's dress, spoke with a smile while giving her a playful wink.

"Sigh, you and your sweet tongue. I'm really weak in front of it. Nowadays, I can't even be angry with you, you damn little pervert," Garnet complain with a helpless look. However, anyone seeing the smile on her face could tell that she was in a good mood after listening to Myne's flirting.

Next, Myne didn't waste more time talking nonsense and directly sealed his lips with Garnet's, while helping her to remove her dress. Though they were in the workplace and there was a possibility of someone coming in, neither of them cared. Garnet, who had been stressed in the past few days, simply decided to put aside all her worries and let herself go.

Clone Myne cared even less about such things, anyway if the sky fall, there is someone to hold it, so just do what he can.

However, both of them still underestimated the current dire state of the kingdom. Just a few minutes of warm-up, and Myne was halfway through putting his little brother inside Garnet when there was an urgent knock on the door, followed by the panicked voice of a man.

"Your Highness, something terrible has happened!"

Because this matter had nothing to do with him, Clone Myne didn't react much, only showing an annoyed expression and removing his hand from his little brother. He knew he had to wait for a moment, but his face still turned ugly as if he were trying to hide his true emotions. This was normal, after all.

Garnet, who looked like she could murder someone for a slight dispute, was now holding his shoulder so tightly that her fingernails pierced through his skin, giving Clone Myne a lot of pain. But considering the seriousness of the situation, he dared not say anything, and could only endure it.

Garnet exhaled a few heavy breaths to calm herself down before getting up from Myne. She quickly tied up her messed-up clothes, put her golden crown back, and walked toward the door to unlock it. But halfway through, she turned around and gave Myne a knowing look that he obviously didn't understand.

"Sigh, are you finally ready to reveal our relationship in front of everyone?" She asked while rolling her eyes.

"Oops, sorry, I forgot," Myne at first didn't understand what Garnet meant, but soon he remembered that he was dead for most people. So he quickly apologized and used his Illusion skill to hide himself.

Garnet, after confirming that there was nothing out of place, took a deep breath and opened the door, only to find a random middle-aged minister of short height around 1.5 meters tall, wearing a mess-up wig on his bald head, covered in sweat from head to toe, big panda like eyes as if he hadn't slept for days, standing outside the door with his two bodyguards whose conditions wasn't much different from him, panting heavily as if he had run a marathon.

"What happened, Lord Lion? Why are you in this state? Did you run all the way here?" Garnet asked with a frown, seeing the dwarf minister, who always tried to look handsome and elegant in front of everyone, now looking no different from a beggar. A heavy feeling of unease rose in her heart.

"Your... Your Highness, do you remember Aelmore Canyon in my Fief?" Dwarf Minister Lion took a deep breath to calm himself down before asking a question that made Garnet a bit annoyed, but she still answered patiently.

"You mean the back garden of your Fief, which is the source of 70% of your state's annual income? From where most of the exotic herbs and fruits are transported in our kingdom? If you're talking about that Aelmore Canyon, then indeed I know about it."

Dwarf Minister seeing a cold expression on Garnet's face understood his mistake and hurriedly apologised. "Sorry, I didn't mean to annoy you, Your Highness, but something terrible has happened to Aelmore Canyon. It's been surrounded by a dense fog for no reason, and all kinds of weird monsters, which we have never seen before, have appeared there."

"All the scouts I sent there to investigate have disappeared, and none of them have returned. At night, strange roars of monsters and eerie cries of people can be heard from it. Many people think there's a ghost there. At first, I didn't believe in this nonsense, but later people started behaving strangely."

Dwarf Minister swallows the saliva hard and continues... "They wake up every night and, without saying anything, start walking toward the Canyon as if they were possessed. At first, it wasn't that serious, but later more and more people started going there and never returning, forcing me to believe it.

I also appointed a lot of soldiers there to stop those people from going into the Canyon, but by morning, forgot about the civilians, and all my soldiers disappeared as well."

"So I quickly built a temporary wooden wall at the entrance of the Canyon in the hope that nothing more terrible happened and hurriedly came to you for help. I believe that if we don't do anything about it, as time passes things will only become more and more complicated, and by then it will be too late to do anything," The dwarf minister said, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

Everyone could see his body trembling. After all, only he knew what kind of life he had been living those days. He hadn't slept peacefully for nearly three weeks. Every night when he closed his eyes, he heard an extremely sweet and seductive voice of a lady in his ear, asking him to come into the Canyon where she was waiting for him.

At first, he thought it was just a lucid dream, but as time passed, he heard the same lady's voice every time he fell asleep, and he started feeling something was wrong. The incident of people walking in their sleep and going into the Canyon to die completely destroyed his courage to sleep.

If someone asked him when he slept most comfortably recently, it would surely be when he was on the way to the capital. Now, he was so scared that he didn't want to go back to his Fief at all. But sadly, his family and everything he held dear were there, so no matter how unwilling he was, he had to go back. Of course, not before taking some helpers with him.

Otherwise, forget about it; life is more important. And even if he knew he could do nothing and was running back to die, he was simply a smear on his reputation as a qualified politician.

Hearing what the dwarf minister said, Garnet put aside her private matters and fell into deep thought. This was indeed a very serious matter. If this had happened somewhere else, given how short the kingdom was on manpower, she might have temporarily ignored it. But Aelmore Canyon was really too important for the kingdom, and no matter how unwilling she was, she couldn't ignore it.

Let's not talk about Aelmore Canyon's own importance; literally half of the potion ingredients in the kingdom came from Aelmore Canyon. And as everyone knew, all potion masters not only had very high status in the kingdom but also had some brain problems. If they didn't get resources to mess with potions for a long time, they would bombard her office with complaints.

They didn't care about the dire situation of the kingdom but only about their research and potions. If she refused to listen to them and kicked them out without any satisfactory answer, they would definitely run to another kingdom, causing significant damage to the kingdom. After all, a war was not only fought with soldiers but resources were also very critical.

Given the Demon Kingdom's causing havoc everywhere and the not-so-friendly relationship with neighbouring kingdoms, if those bastards found out the real situation of The Augusta Kingdom, and with the critical hit of potion masters running away, it would only be a matter of time before various kingdom armies were knocking on their door.