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Surviving Zombies Was Easier Than Raising Beast Cubs

Chapter 178: I would rather die than betray my people · 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 178: Chapter 178: I would rather die than betray my people

”But...”

”No fighting monsters.”

His ears lowered.

”No deciding that because you are eldest, everyone has to follow you into danger.”

Kairo frowned.

”What if there is danger?”

”You find Mora.”

Mora nodded once.

”Immediately.”

Kairo considered this.

Then nodded.

”Yes, Mama.”

Swanly touched his hair.

”Good.”

Then Nilo.

He was already looking at her.

Quiet.

Watching.

”You.”

”I know.”

”No disappearing.”

His eyes widened.

”I don’t disappear anymore.”

”You vanish into corners whenever you want quiet.”

”I like corners.”

”And Mama likes knowing where her children are.”

He thought.

Then nodded.

”I’ll stay where Tilla can see me.”

”Thank you.”

She kissed his forehead.

Miko immediately shoved forward.

”What about my kiss?”

Swanly kissed him.

Kairo leaned in too.

Apparently dignity had limits.

She kissed all three.

Then pointed between Kairo and Nilo.

”And if your brother starts trying to do something stupid...”

Both immediately pointed at Miko.

”We stop him.”

Miko gasped.

”You planned against me!”

Swanly smiled sweetly.

”Yes.”

”Mama!”

Tilla burst out laughing.

Swanly finally turned toward her daughters.

That was harder.

Leaving them, even for a short time, made something primitive inside her twist.

She touched each tiny face.

”Stay here.”

Kael raised a brow.

”They cannot walk.”

”You never know with beast babies.”

Tilla snorted.

”Go before you change your mind.”

Swanly did.

Barely.

...

Half the settlement had gathered near the old interrogation shelter.

Not inside.

Soren had forbidden unnecessary crowding.

But nobody had forgotten what the Veilkin did.

People wanted answers.

Some wanted blood.

The captured creature knelt in the center.

Its arms were pulled brutally behind its back.

Thick hide ropes bound wrists, elbows, ankles and torso.

Another rope ran around its throat and into Raku’s fist.

Its disguise was almost gone.

One side of its face still resembled a gray wolf beastman.

The other did not.

Smooth gray-black skin.

Wrong cheekbone.

Too-wide mouth.

One yellow eye.

One dark, lidless eye.

Arion stood nearby with several warriors.

Nerin remained farther back.

His silver deer ears were pressed flat.

Thalara watched silently from beside Druun.

Druun hated the prisoner.

That much was obvious.

His enormous fingers flexed every time the Veilkin breathed.

Swanly approached.

Several people immediately noticed.

”Swanly?”

”She should be resting.”

”She gave birth yesterday.”

Kael growled.

Everyone stopped talking.

Swanly looked at him.

”Useful.”

”I know.”

Soren was already crouched before the prisoner.

His pale fingers rested against its temple.

The Veilkin smiled.

”You think I will speak?”

Soren’s expression did not change.

”No.”

The creature’s smile weakened.

”I do not need your mouth.”

Silence.

Soren’s fingers spread.

Silver light flashed faintly beneath his palm.

The Veilkin’s entire body jerked.

Then it screamed.

Not shouted.

Screamed.

Its back arched so hard the ropes creaked.

Soren did not blink.

His mind crashed through the creature’s memories.

Not gently.

Not carefully.

He tore through them.

A forest.

Gone.

A voice.

Gone.

Hands digging through black earth.

Gone.

A symbol carved into bark.

Gone.

Another memory.

Rain.

Blood.

A group of Veilkin crouched beneath roots.

Swipe.

A conversation.

”...Ironwood...”

Soren stopped.

The creature screamed harder.

His claws pressed into its skull.

”Stay there.”

He forced the memory open.

A dark forest.

Several figures.

A strip of bark passed between hands.

Words carved into it.

Western wall.

Guard changes.

Water route.

Pregnant snow fox.

Soren’s face went completely still.

Swanly saw it.

”What?”

He did not answer.

He pushed deeper.

Another fragment.

A spotted hyena female.

Brea.

Passing something beneath a stone.

Then darkness.

Not natural darkness.

Blankness.

Soren frowned.

He forced his power farther.

The Veilkin shrieked.

Blood ran from its nose.

Raku tightened the rope.

”Careful.”

Soren ignored him.

Another memory flashed.

Stone.

Bars.

A red tail beyond them.

A woman’s voice through a narrow crack.

”...food...”

Swipe.

”...females...”

Swipe.

”...strange weapons...”

Swipe.

”...giant...”

Soren’s eyes widened.

Swanly’s stomach went cold.

Selka.

He pushed harder.

The creature’s head jerked violently.

Its scream became ragged.

Another fragment.

A voice saying:

She has treasures that appear from nowhere.

Then nothing.

Soren searched.

Nothing.

He tore sideways through memory.

Nothing.

Backward.

Nothing.

Forward.

Blank.

Huge stretches of the creature’s mind had been burned clean.

Soren’s expression changed.

That was impossible.

Memories could be hidden.

Buried.

Distorted by fear.

But this?

Someone had removed them.

Deliberately.

He forced himself through another sealed section.

The Veilkin began convulsing.

A flash.

An underground chamber.

Dozens of them.

A map scratched into stone.

Ironwood above.

Something beneath it.

A circle.

A sealed shape.

Hands pointing downward.

A voice:

Find the buried seal.

Another:

The heart remains below.

Then white emptiness swallowed everything.

Soren snarled.

He ripped his hand away.

The Veilkin collapsed forward, coughing.

Blood dripped from its mouth.

For several seconds nobody spoke.

Swanly stared at Soren.

”What did you see?”

His breathing was slightly heavier.

”Very little.”

Raku frowned.

”That sounded like more than very little.”

”Most of its useful memories are gone.”

Thalara’s central eye sharpened.

”Gone?”

Soren looked toward her.

”Removed.”

That changed the air.

Even Druun became still.

Nerin whispered:

”Can someone do that?”

Soren looked down at the prisoner.

”Yes.”

His voice became colder.

”But not easily.”

Arion’s jaw tightened.

”So they expected capture.”

Soren nodded.

”And they expected you,” Swanly said.

His eyes met hers.

”Yes.”

The creature began laughing.

Quietly at first.

Then louder.

Its shoulders shook.

Blood coated its teeth.

Soren looked down.

The Veilkin slowly lifted its head.

”You looked.”

Soren said nothing.

”You tore through everything you could reach.”

Its smile widened.

”And found scraps.”

Raku pulled the rope tighter.

The creature choked.

Still smiling.

Soren’s face became terrifyingly calm.

The Veilkin stared directly into his silver eyes.

”What?”

It laughed again.

”You thought we were unprepared?”

Silence.

”I would rather die than betray my people.”

Soren crouched again.

The creature’s smile remained.

Then Soren spoke quietly.

”You already did.”

The smile faltered.

Soren’s eyes turned toward Swanly.

Then toward the settlement.

”Selka.”

Every person nearby froze.

Kael’s head snapped up.

Swanly’s blue-gray eyes widened.

Soren looked back at the prisoner.

”You hid your plans.”

His voice dropped.

”But you left me the traitor who opened the door for you.”

And somewhere across Ironwood, behind thick wooden bars, Selka had absolutely no idea that Soren had just found her name.

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