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Surviving Zombies Was Easier Than Raising Beast Cubs

Chapter 246: EMERGENCY PURGE INITIALIZING · Oct 31, 2026

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201 Chapter 201: Is she sulking? 2026-10-31
202 Chapter 202: You did not miss me! 2026-10-31
203 Chapter 203: They are bullying me 2026-10-31
204 Chapter 204: It has begun 2026-10-31
205 Chapter 205: GET SOREN! 2026-10-31
206 Chapter 206: Bad Pa 2026-10-31
207 Chapter 207: You’re actually jealous 2026-10-31
208 Chapter 208: Why are you holding my daughter? 2026-10-31
209 Chapter 209: The Twins Transformed 2026-10-31
210 Chapter 210: They do not love us 2026-10-31
211 Chapter 211: We need more animals 2026-10-31
212 Chapter 212: You are supposed to be the adult! 2026-10-31
213 Chapter 213: You still cannot bite every person who scares a baby 2026-10-31
214 Chapter 214: You listened to me for ten minutes just to ask if I was done? 2026-10-31
215 Chapter 215: Little fox 2026-10-31
216 Chapter 216: Do not assume my people want the same thing 2026-10-31
217 Chapter 217: I stole you 2026-10-31
218 Chapter 218: You are not climbing the prince 2026-10-31
219 Chapter 219: Some are attacking animals. Some ignore animals and hunt beastmen instead 2026-10-31
220 Chapter 220: Make it stop 2026-10-31
221 Chapter 221: You get meaner when you’re hungry 2026-10-31
222 Chapter 222: They’re all hurting where they were hurt before 2026-10-31
223 Chapter 223: POTENTIAL DISEASE OUTBREAK 2026-10-31
224 Chapter 224 - 225: Stay back! 2026-10-31
225 Chapter 225 - 226: Perhaps threaten people less romantically next time 2026-10-31
226 Chapter 226 - 227: You hid a fever? 2026-10-31
227 Chapter 227 - 228: Is he going to die? 2026-10-31
228 Chapter 228 - 229: You grabbed my ass 2026-10-31
229 Chapter 229 - 230: Why are my children investigating my relationships? 2026-10-31
230 Chapter 230 - 231: Do not let children’s affection make you mistake your place 2026-10-31
231 Chapter 231 - 232: Stop trying to kiss your way out of trouble! 2026-10-31
232 Chapter 232 - 233: A breakthrough 2026-10-31
233 Chapter 233 - 234: I thought you would never figure it out 2026-10-31
234 Chapter 234: Meow 2026-10-31
235 Chapter 235: EVERYBODY SIT YOUR ASSES DOWN! 2026-10-31
236 Chapter 236: Could you stop bringing corpses when you’re courting me? 2026-10-31
237 Chapter 237: RAKU! 2026-10-31
238 Chapter 238: ROOFS! STORAGE PLATFORMS! GET CHILDREN UP FIRST! 2026-10-31
239 Chapter 239: Up! Everybody up! 2026-10-31
240 Chapter 240: UNKNOWN ORGANISM 2026-10-31
241 Chapter 241: If you die, I will be extremely angry 2026-10-31
242 Chapter 242: Mama… your hands… 2026-10-31
243 Chapter 243: GOOD GIRL! 2026-10-31
244 Chapter 244: If either of you bleeds on my patients because you’re too stubborn to bind yourselves, I will kill you personally 2026-10-31
245 Chapter 245: If we become stupid, we kill them ourselves 2026-10-31
246 Chapter 246: EMERGENCY PURGE INITIALIZING 2026-10-31
247 Chapter 247: WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?! 2026-10-31
248 Chapter 248: Absolutely disgusting 2026-10-31
249 Chapter 249: If they don’t care about me, I can’t lure them away just by fighting 2026-10-31
250 Chapter 250: DO NOT FIRE. GUNFIRE OR PROJECTILE IMPACT MAY DIVERT THE SWARM BACK TOWARD HOST 2026-10-31

Chapter 246: Chapter 246: EMERGENCY PURGE INITIALIZING

?? Small Content Warning: This Chapter contains intense violence, blood, injuries, and distressing scenes involving children. Please read with care. ??

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It was Soren’s turn to look at him.

”You can cross.”

”And you?”

”I cannot.”

Kael looked toward the twins.

Soren’s daughters.

Crying.

Soren’s jaw tightened.

”You can.”

For the first time, Kael saw something ugly and helpless in Soren’s eyes.

Not jealousy.

Not rivalry.

A father choosing the only male who could reach his children.

Kael shifted.

Human to panther.

Black fur.

Golden eyes.

Soren leaned his massive head closer.

”If you drop one of my daughters...”

Kael bared his teeth.

”I won’t.”

Soren’s pupils narrowed.

”And Swanly.”

Kael growled.

”She was mine before you.”

For any other moment, that might have started a fight.

Soren only said:

”Then prove useful.”

Kael’s tail lashed.

He backed up.

Prepared to jump.

Then Swanly screamed.

Both males froze.

A Hollowmaw had hit her from behind.

She flew into stone.

Her shoulder struck with a sickening crack.

Kael felt it through the bond.

Pain.

Shock.

Swanly.

His whole body lurched forward.

Soren’s coils crushed a fallen beam.

”SWANLY!”

The Hollowmaw climbed over her.

On the platform, every child began screaming.

”MAMA!”

Kairo tried to climb down with one injured arm.

Nilo tackled him.

”NO!”

”She needs us!”

”She said stay!”

Miko crawled beneath both of them.

”I’M GOING!”

Kairo grabbed him.

Eira fought Nilo’s arms so violently she nearly slipped free.

Sira screamed until her voice broke.

”MAMA! MAMA! MAMA!”

Below them, Swanly shoved one forearm against the Hollowmaw’s throat.

Her injured shoulder did not work.

Its mouth opened beside her face.

The System appeared.

Red.

Furious.

Terrified.

HOST LIFE FAILURE RISK: CRITICAL.

”Busy!”

EMERGENCY PURGE INITIALIZING.

Swanly’s eyes widened.

”No.”

A red radius expanded across her vision.

Her children were inside it.

The trapped civilians were inside it.

Part of Soren’s body was inside it.

Kael was at its edge.

”Cancel.”

NEGATIVE.

”CANCEL!”

IF CARDIAC FUNCTION CEASES, PURGE WILL AUTOMATICALLY DISCHARGE.

”What happens?”

The fairy did not answer.

Swanly screamed:

”WHAT HAPPENS?”

ALL HIGH-ACTIVITY ORGANIC MATTER WITHIN THE MINIMUM RADIUS WILL BE DISRUPTED.

Swanly understood.

The Hollowmaws would die.

So would everyone else.

The System could save its host.

It could not save Swanly’s entire world.

”No.”

The Hollowmaw pushed closer.

Two inches.

One.

The System shook.

FIGHT.

Swanly’s arm trembled.

”Trying.”

FIGHT HARDER!

The fairy screamed it.

Not like a machine.

Like someone afraid.

Above her, Kairo sobbed:

”Mama!”

Swanly looked up.

Saw five children.

Saw Kael on the other side of the collapse, pacing backward for a jump he might not survive.

Saw Soren’s huge white body beside him, unable to cross without killing the people underneath.

Saw the entire impossible mess.

The old Swanly came back.

Not mother.

Not mate.

Not leader.

Survivor.

Stop wasting strength.

Let the enemy believe it won.

She stopped pushing.

The Hollowmaw surged forward.

Swanly waited.

Its mouth opened.

Closer.

Now.

Her good hand snapped upward.

A blade materialized directly into her palm.

She drove it through the soft palate.

Deep.

The Hollowmaw convulsed.

Black fluid exploded over her face.

Its hooked limbs stabbed into stone beside her head.

Then the full body collapsed over her.

The cubs screamed.

Then stopped.

Because Swanly disappeared.

Nothing moved.

Kairo stared.

”Mama?”

No answer.

”Mama?”

Kael made a sound from across the collapse that no one in Ironwood would ever forget.

A panther grieving before he knew whether he had lost anything.

He launched.

Soren’s tail snapped around his waist and ripped him backward.

Kael turned on him with murder in his eyes.

”LET ME GO!”

”The beam moved!”

”I DON’T CARE!”

”I DO!”

Soren’s voice thundered.

”BECAUSE IF IT FALLS, YOU DIE BEFORE YOU REACH HER!”

Kael went still.

The corpse moved.

Everyone stopped.

A hand appeared beneath it.

Then Swanly’s blood-covered face.

She shoved.

The Hollowmaw rolled partly aside.

Swanly gasped.

Air.

She lay still for one second.

Then two.

Then forced herself onto her knees.

Her shoulder sagged.

Blood ran from her lip.

Black fluid covered her hair.

But she was alive.

The System’s countdown froze.

PURGE CANCELLED.

Swanly spat blood.

”Good.”

The fairy flew directly into her face.

Its tiny hands were shaking.

DO NOT DO THAT AGAIN.

Swanly coughed.

”What?”

ALMOST DIE.

Despite everything, a weak laugh escaped her.

”Wasn’t really on my schedule.”

The fairy’s eyes shone.

I DO NOT WANT ANOTHER HOST.

Swanly swallowed.

Something warm hurt in her chest.

”Love you too.”

The System flashed furious gold.

THAT IS NOT WHAT I SAID.

Then Swanly looked up.

Five children were staring down at her.

Kairo was sobbing openly.

Nilo’s face was soaked.

Miko could barely breathe.

Eira and Sira were both reaching for her.

Swanly forced herself up.

”I told you...”

Her knees almost buckled.

She caught herself against the wall.

”I told you I wasn’t dying.”

Kairo’s face crumpled.

”You lied!”

The words hit harder than the monster.

”You said you wouldn’t get hurt!”

Swanly’s smile disappeared.

”I know.”

”You lied!”

”I know, baby.”

Kairo hid his face against Nilo’s shoulder and sobbed.

Another crack.

The platform dropped.

All five screamed.

Swanly’s head snapped up.

The System flashed:

STRUCTURAL REINFORCEMENT: THREE MINUTES, TWELVE SECONDS.

Swanly went cold.

Not sixteen anymore.

Damage had accelerated it.

Three minutes.

A Hollowmaw crawled over the wall.

Then another.

Swanly raised the bow.

Her bad arm barely lifted.

The System immediately warned:

SHOULDER FUNCTION COMPROMISED.

”Adjust draw resistance.”

The bow flashed.

POWER LOSS: TWENTY-NINE PERCENT.

”Still enough?”

AT CLOSE RANGE.

”Good.”

Across the collapse, Soren looked at Kael.

Three minutes.

He had heard the System countdown through Swanly’s shouted responses even if he could not see it.

He looked at the roof beam.

Then at the tree.

Then at Kael.

”Go.”

Kael crouched.

Someone trapped beneath the rubble whispered:

”Please...”

Kael looked down.

The man’s face was visible between stones.

Terrified.

If Kael landed on the wrong slab, he would crush him.

Kael shifted his weight.

Calculated.

Panther.

Balance.

Silence.

Predator.

He did not need the ground.

He needed three points.

Broken roof.

Tree limb.

Remaining wall.

Soren’s massive tail rose beneath the first beam.

Not touching the unstable rubble.

Creating one additional platform.

Kael looked at him.

Soren’s eyes were on Swanly.

”Use me.”

Kael stepped onto the snake’s tail.

Soren braced.

Kael backed up two paces along the huge white coil.

Then ran.

One.

Two.

Jump.

Black fur flew through smoke.

Behind him, Soren held completely still.

Ahead of him, Swanly fired at three Hollowmaws alone beneath their breaking children.

Kael hit the first roof beam.

It cracked.

He did not stop.

Jumped again.

A Hollowmaw climbed onto the beam from below.

Kael landed directly on its back.

The creature twisted.

Its sideways mouth opened.

Kael’s claws sank into the softer seam beneath its armor.

It bucked.

The beam groaned.

Below them, trapped survivors screamed.

Kael could not fight normally.

Could not thrash.

Could not let the creature drop.

So he did something much worse.

He lowered his body.

Went utterly still.

Waited for the Hollowmaw to turn its head.

Then his jaws closed around the exposed underside of its neck.

One bite.

One violent twist.

The creature went limp.

Kael left it balanced across the beam because even dropping the corpse might shift the rubble.

He jumped again.

The tree branch.

It bent under his weight.

His hind paw slipped.

Swanly saw him.

”KAEL!”

His claws ripped through bark.

For one horrible heartbeat, he hung over the collapse.

Below him?

Hands reached from darkness.

Not Hollowmaws.

People.

Trapped survivors looking up at him.

Kael looked down.

Then up.

Swanly.

The cubs.

His family.

His muscles bunched.

He hauled himself onto the branch.

Across the gap, Soren watched.

His daughters screamed.

”Pa!”

Sira had finally seen him.

Tiny arms reached across the impossible space.

”Pa!”

Soren’s enormous head lifted.

His silver eyes locked on her.

”I see you.”

His voice carried through the chaos.

Sira sobbed.

Eira crawled to the railing.

”Pa.”

”I see you too.”

He could not cross.

He could not hold them.

So the ancient white snake did the only thing he could.

He wrapped his body around the entire unstable collapse.

Not squeezing.

Bracing.

His coils pressed against outer walls, broken posts and surviving foundations.

Taking some of their weight onto himself.

Stone dug into his scales.

One jagged beam tore a long line down his side.

Blood ran white scales red.

He did not move.

The trapped survivors felt the shifting rubble stop.

One whispered:

”He’s holding it.”

Soren’s muscles trembled.

He was.

He looked at Kael.

”GO!”

Kael jumped.

And this time, there was nothing beneath him except open dark and screaming people.

Ahead?

Swanly.

Five cubs.

And the last standing wall.

Kael flew toward them.

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