The maids were stunned… they looked at themselves in confusion. "What system?"
[Host should remain calm.]
Elena's smile turned dangerous. "Calm?" she repeated softly. She pointed at the door. "Did you hear what he just said?"
[Multiple mates are normal in the Beast World, I thought you should have known about this]
Elena paused, then nodded slowly. 'Damn! I forgot…' she was about to argue but remembered her plan. "Okay."
[Important females in the Beast World are allowed to have three or more mates. Ordinary females usually have two.]
"Yeah, yeah, I knew," she said and started pacing back and forth, thinking of how to talk to the wolf beast.
She stopped and faced the maids who held their breath immediately. "You know what? stand up and stop kneeling around me," she scoffed.
The maids were stunned, they looked at themselves, afraid it was another plan to get them beheaded, then they quickly put their foreheads on the ground. "Please forgive us if we have offended you without our knowing"
Elena touched her forehead in frustration. "Damn, you Cece!! " Stand the fvck up!!" she roared, the maids quickly stood, trembling.
"So, which of you knows how to reject someone?"
[Host...]
"You shut up," Elena sneered at the system and focused on the maids who looked at her as if she had just said a taboo. "The mate will die"
Elena's brow furrowed. "How can he die when I have not mated with him?" she asked herself.
[Rejecting the task will put everything at risk, especially this world, you have no idea what your main task is, but you need to mate with the wolf beast to know, with that you will understand how worse this beast world is and how much they need a hero… the only person that can save them… a hero in her villain form]
Elena finally calmed down. "A hero in her villain form? What's the meaning of that?"
"Meaning of what?" one of the maids gasped.
Elena glanced at them and swallowed. "Listen, I will cooperate and go and meet him, after that, you need to tell me everything I need to know, most especially… the hero in HER villain form, understood?"
There was silence…
Elena nodded and yawned, dramatically stretching her hands wide. "I feel sleepy," she told the maids. "Go and tell my father I don't want the wolf king anymore…"
[Deal] the system quickly said.
Elena smirked and clapped her hands in satisfaction. "Good! " Take me to my father," she said eagerly.
The confused maids, who were about to take action in response to what she said, stopped, swallowed, and didn't dare complain. "Yes, Your Highness"
The moment Elena stepped out of her room, she paused, because her brain refused to process what her eyes were seeing.
"Wait…."
Her maids' steps came to a halt, they frowned and glanced at themselves.
This wasn't a palace she expected… it wasn't even a mansion.
It was a cave!!
A cave… that looked like it belonged to the richest being alive. Her eyes moved around carefully, taking in every detail as if she was afraid blinking might change everything.
The walls weren't rough or dull like any normal cave. Instead, they were embedded with glowing stones, crystals of different colours casting soft light across the wide space, making the entire place feel almost magical. Gold lined certain edges, not too much, but enough to remind anyone that this wasn't just decoration… it was wealth.
The deeper they walked, the more unreal it became.
"So all that diamond in my room…" she muttered in disbelief… she would be super rich just by selling the precious stones in her room alone. "Or is it because Cece was living inside a treasure box?"
Was that why she… well, she couldn't know the value of the stones.
The maids didn't dare to say anything as they continued their walk, even afraid of making a sound, as if even breathing too loudly would offend her.
Elena sighed softly, shaking her head. "This world… is already stressing me," she found the maids annoying.
They finally stopped in front of a wide entrance carved into the rock, guarded but open, as if whoever was inside didn't need protection.
Or didn't fear anything. The maids stepped aside and bowed. "Your Highness…"
Elena straightened and walked in, and then she saw Cece's father, Lord Zenobius who is now her father.
He wasn't sitting on a throne as she expected, but sat on a small elevated stone platform, smooth and polished like it had been carved to perfection. Around him were several large, natural rocks shaped into seats, arranged in a loose circle that somehow looked both casual and powerful at the same time.
In front of him was a wide stone table, filled with meat, fish, fruits arranged in a way that looked almost artistic despite its simplicity.
But that wasn't what made Elena pause. It was the people around him.
Four women sat close to him, two on each side, dressed in the same elegant style, their posture straight, their presence calm, they smiled and nodded at her.
"Those must be Cece's father's mates," Elena blinked in surprise, judging from the two black fox ears she had been seeing, she had guessed Lord Zenobius and his family were black fox beasts…
Then her gaze shifted to the left side of the circle.
A young lady with wolf ears lazily sat not far from her father's mate, her back straight, her legs crossed elegantly, one hand resting lightly on her lap while the other supported her chin. Her expression carried disappointment, even her long furry brown tail kept moving up and down in frustration, she looked at Elena, rolled her eyes, and looked away. "She's acting again," she mumbled.
Elena took a very deep sigh and said, "The Alpha King's woman…" she muttered. "Also her ex-friend and rival," she added with a snort.
Drama everywhere!
Before she could fully process that, another figure caught her attention.
An older woman sat not too far from the table, completely unbothered by anything happening around her.
Her long black fox ears twitched and her tail stood as she stuffed a piece of fish into her mouth, chewing slowly before closing her eyes in satisfaction.
She even hummed and nodded, as if she had just tasted the best thing in existence. "Beast God… bless those that brought us these unique little beasts to eat"
Elena blinked again. "Okay." she didn't even know what to say to that.
In that moment, she heard, "Come here, Cece."
Her father's voice pulled her attention back immediately.
Lord Zenobius smiled at her, his expression soft, he was always proud, as if nothing in the world could possibly go wrong as long as she was here.
"Say hello to Alpha Damon."
He nodded slightly to the right. Elena followed his gaze. And then she saw a man sitting there quietly, his posture relaxed but controlled, one arm resting on the stone beside him while the other lay across his lap. His hair fell neatly to his shoulders, dark and smooth, Elena was surprised to see a man who looked like a lady, and his face…
Familiar…
Elena frowned and moved closer to him to take a good look.
His jaw tightened, as if he was holding back irritation, his sharp eyes focused somewhere else, not interested in being here.
Elena's steps slowed and her frown deepened, after she confirmed, her eyes widened… "Jacob?"