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Chapter 173: Why is Swanly alone? · Oct 31, 2026

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151 Chapter 151: Four Sisters 2026-10-31
152 Chapter 152: There. See? You found something worse than the Rot 2026-10-31
153 Chapter 153: We leaving you with your bad face (Guess what cub said that) 2026-10-31
154 Chapter 154: Oh my God 2026-10-31
155 Chapter 155: Ugh. Ugh. Baby heavy. Miko tired 2026-10-31
156 Chapter 156: The Babies Moved 2026-10-31
157 Chapter 157: Blood Ritual 2026-10-31
158 Chapter 158: The giant just courted your female 2026-10-31
159 Chapter 159: My babies are getting too heavy 2026-10-31
160 Chapter 160: Someone Is Watching Ironwood 2026-10-31
161 Chapter 161: I’m also your baby 2026-10-31
162 Chapter 162: Why is everyone attacking me today? 2026-10-31
163 Chapter 163: If you behave like a lone survivor again, I will tie you to your sleeping mat 2026-10-31
164 Chapter 164: Twin daughters 2026-10-31
165 Chapter 165: Mama says we were cuter when we could not talk 2026-10-31
166 Chapter 166: Ancient subterranean mimic species 2026-10-31
167 Chapter 167: The Water Broke 2026-10-31
168 Chapter 168: I’m having babies 2026-10-31
169 Chapter 169: SOREN, YOU WHITE-SCALED BASTARD! 2026-10-31
170 Chapter 170: I liked that rack 2026-10-31
171 Chapter 171: Mama is going to be angry 2026-10-31
172 Chapter 172: Snake babies 2026-10-31
173 Chapter 173: Why is Swanly alone? 2026-10-31
174 Chapter 174: Can we see Mama? 2026-10-31
175 Chapter 175: Tiny Sisters, Tiny Fangs 2026-10-31
176 Chapter 176: Three Minutes to Live 2026-10-31
177 Chapter 177: Why do you always start with me? 2026-10-31
178 Chapter 178: I would rather die than betray my people 2026-10-31
179 Chapter 179: Do not suddenly grow a conscience because everyone is looking 2026-10-31
180 Chapter 180: What exactly are you talking about? 2026-10-31
181 Chapter 181: The Night Swanly Lost Her Innocence 2026-10-31
182 Chapter 182: You made your males hurt me because you knew I wouldn’t speak 2026-10-31
183 Chapter 183: Hello 2026-10-31
184 Chapter 184: Do not touch the arrow! 2026-10-31
185 Chapter 185: Her Last Three Gifts 2026-10-31
186 Chapter 186: Although I remain available for future children 2026-10-31
187 Chapter 187: Talkative prince 2026-10-31
188 Chapter 188: Ancient creatures have terrible eating habits 2026-10-31
189 Chapter 189: What did he do? 2026-10-31
190 Chapter 190: I want a daughter too 2026-10-31
191 Chapter 191: hide-and-feed-the-postpartum-fox 2026-10-31
192 Chapter 192: A missing toof 2026-10-31
193 Chapter 193: DEER PAPA! DON’T LOTH MY TOOF! 2026-10-31
194 Chapter 194: Snake Papa Is A Bully 1 2026-10-31
195 Chapter 195: Snake Papa Is A Bully 2 2026-10-31
196 Chapter 196: DEER PAPAAAA! DON’T LOTH MY TOOF! 2026-10-31
197 Chapter 197: Miko made it fall out! 2026-10-31
198 Chapter 198: Snake babies were monsters 2026-10-31
199 Chapter 199: Did you just copy me? 2026-10-31
200 Chapter 200: She poisoned someone 2026-10-31

Chapter 173: Chapter 173: Why is Swanly alone?

Its neck was bent wrong.

No.

The creature slowly pushed itself upward.

Its false skin shifted.

Bones crawled beneath its face.

It looked toward the babies.

Hungry.

Swanly’s exhaustion vanished.

”You have got to be kidding me.”

The creature crawled toward the basket.

Nahla was still turned away.

Swanly reached beside the bedding.

Before the system upgrade, she had taken weapons out.

One compact handgun lay beneath the folded hide beside her.

Her fingers closed around it.

The Veilkin lunged.

Swanly raised the gun.

BANG!

The shot exploded inside the stone shelter.

Nahla screamed and spun.

The bullet struck the creature high in the chest.

It staggered.

Still moved.

Swanly’s face became vicious.

”No.”

BANG!

The second round blew through its shoulder.

The creature twisted.

Swanly aimed straight at its head.

”I almost died giving birth to those.”

BANG!

The shot punched through its skull.

The impact threw it backward through the thin wooden partition beside the cave wall.

CRASH!

Wood exploded outward.

The creature disappeared into the next chamber.

Silence.

Smoke curled from Swanly’s weapon.

Nahla stared.

Swanly lowered the gun.

”No one is taking them from me.”

Then she fell back against the bedding.

Breathing.

Nahla looked at the hole.

Then Swanly.

Then the gun.

”What happened?”

”I handled it.”

”You just gave birth.”

”Yes.”

”You are bleeding.”

”Yes.”

”You shot something through a wall.”

”Yes.”

Nahla stared.

Swanly closed her eyes.

”I’m having a complicated evening.”

...

It was worse outside.

They were losing people.

Not everyone.

But enough.

A Riverbone hunter fell with his throat opened before Raku could reach him.

A Sunmane male screamed as a Veilkin tore through his stomach.

Two females dragged him away while another warrior covered them.

A young wolf beastman lost three fingers.

Sari took a claw across the back.

Arion had blood running from his temple.

Raku’s scales were split along one side.

Thalara had torn roots lying dead around her feet.

Even Druun bled from a deep slash across his forearm.

And still the creatures kept coming.

Then Nahla appeared carrying weapons.

Soren’s head snapped toward her.

”Why are you here?”

”Swanly sent me.”

His face changed.

”Why is Swanly alone?”

Nahla shoved a loaded weapon toward Raku.

”Because your female is impossible.”

That explained nothing and everything.

”She gave birth?”

”Yes.”

Soren stopped.

”Both?”

”Both alive.”

Something broke across his face.

Relief.

Then a Veilkin charged him.

Soren turned and tore its throat open so viciously the emotion disappeared beneath blood.

Nahla shouted:

”She took these from her strange magic before it closed!”

Raku recognized the weapons.

Swanly had shown a handful of them basic use during emergency training. And he had used a particular one called a gun while at the Rot Nest.

And he liked that one so much.

Point.

Brace.

Do not put your fingers near the wrong place.

Do not aim at your own people.

Simple.

Arion caught one.

Soren took another.

Nahla moved toward the next group.

A Veilkin hit her from behind.

She flew.

Her herbs scattered.

Her weapon slid across the ground.

”Nahla!”

The creature raised its claws.

Nahla rolled.

Grabbed the weapon.

Pointed.

Her old hands shook.

”You picked...”

BANG!

The shot struck its leg.

”...the wrong...”

BANG!

Chest.

”...healer!”

The creature fell.

Nahla stared at it.

Then at the weapon.

Her gray otter ears rose.

”Hm.”

Raku killed another beside her.

”Do not start enjoying it.”

Nahla picked up her herbs.

”I am considering it.”

The new weapons changed the fight.

Not instantly.

Not magically.

But enough.

Veilkin that had shrugged off arrows suddenly started falling.

Their underground rush lost momentum.

Ironwood’s warriors pushed them back.

Druun sealed one broken tunnel by lifting an entire slab of stone and smashing it down over the opening.

BOOM!

Tovan stared.

”You could have done that the entire time?!”

Druun looked at him.

”Big.”

”Yes, I can see that!”

...

Selka heard the battle.

She did not know what was happening.

Only that people were screaming.

Something kept hitting the outer caves.

Her guard had left the entrance once.

Then returned.

Then screamed.

Then stopped screaming.

Selka slowly stood.

”Brann?”

Nothing.

She approached the wooden bars.

The guard lay outside.

Dead.

His chest had been torn open.

Selka froze.

For one stupid second, hope came.

They came.

The outsiders.

They had finally come for her.

Her hands grabbed the bars.

”Here!”

Movement appeared.

Two figures came around the bend.

Selka smiled.

Then stopped.

Those were not beastmen.

Not truly.

One had deer antlers.

But one antler was melting into something smooth and black.

Another had wolf ears.

Too many teeth pushed through its mouth.

Selka’s face drained.

”What are you?”

The creatures looked at her.

Then her stomach.

Their eyes changed.

Hungry.

Selka backed away.

”No.”

One approached.

”No!”

It reached through the bars.

Selka stumbled.

A roar sounded outside.

Both Veilkin turned.

Someone attacked nearby.

The creatures rushed toward the sound.

Selka pressed against the cave wall.

Breathing hard.

Then pain crushed through her lower body.

She screamed.

Covered her mouth.

No.

Not now.

Warm liquid ran down her legs.

Selka stared.

Her water.

”No...”

Another contraction.

She folded.

Nobody came.

No healer.

No female.

No servant.

No crowd of males desperate to please her.

Nobody.

For the first time in her life, Selka was truly alone.

She bit down on her hand to stop herself screaming.

Hours blurred.

Pain.

Blood.

Sweat.

Fear.

She delivered the first cub into her own shaking hands.

Its cry nearly made her sob.

”Quiet.”

She held the newborn against her chest.

”Please.”

Another contraction came.

She screamed into her arm.

By the second birth she was exhausted.

”I can’t.”

Then footsteps.

Selka grabbed a broken piece of wood.

”Stay back!”

Brann appeared.

Covered in blood.

One tusk chipped.

A deep cut across his shoulder.

He saw her.

Saw the newborn.

Saw the blood.

His entire face changed.

”Selka.”

She stared.

”Go away.”

Another contraction took her.

She folded.

Brann was inside before she could stop him.

”How long?”

”Don’t touch me.”

”How long?”

”I said...”

She screamed.

Brann caught her before she fell sideways.

His hands shook.

”I’m helping.”

”I don’t need you.”

”You’re giving birth alone.”

”I hate you.”

His face flinched.

”I know.”

That hurt her somehow.

He stayed.

He helped deliver the second cub.

Then the third.

He cleaned them with shaking hands.

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