Raising Beast Cubs to Find a Husband novel Chapter 129

Chapter 129: The Ultimate Snack

The roar that shook the Shrine wasn’t human. It was the sound of something ancient, wild, and incredibly angry breaking its leash.

Rurik didn’t just transform; he detonated. His human form twisted, bones cracking and reshaping in a terrifying display of biological magic. Fur the color of storm clouds burst from his skin. Within seconds, the Warlord was gone.

In his place stood a Dire Wolf the size of a carriage.

He wasn’t alone.

Marquis Konrad shifted into a massive, slate-grey beast, his scars still visible through the fur, moving with the heavy precision of a tank.

And Duchess Freya... she was breathtaking. Her wolf form was sleek, pure white, and faster than the eye could follow. She looked like a blizzard given claws.

"ROAAAAR!"

The three behemoths launched themselves at the ceiling.

The black ice spiders hissed, dropping from their threads to intercept. It was a massacre. Rurik caught a spider in his jaws, crushing its obsidian shell like a grape. Freya was a blur of motion, using the vertical walls as a running track to flank the enemies, snapping their legs with surgical bites. Konrad stood his ground, swiping with paws the size of shields, batting the monsters out of the air.

Below the chaos, Caspian moved.

He didn’t run. He glided, his feet barely touching the ground. He held Primrose close to his side, his hand raised.

"Hydro-Sanctum," Caspian commanded.

A swirling sphere of pressurized water surrounded them, spinning like a buzzsaw. Any spider that tried to get close was shredded instantly by the liquid blades.

"Keep your eyes on Vali!" Caspian shouted over the noise of crunching chitin. "Do not look at the monsters! Look at the goal!"

Primrose clutched her snack bag to her chest, her heart hammering against her ribs. She forced herself to focus on the center of the web.

Vali was convulsing. The purple light was so bright now it was blinding. He was screaming silently, his mouth open in a rictus of pain.

Hold on, baby, Primrose thought, gritting her teeth. Nanny is coming.

High above the carnage, two small faces peered through the broken grate.

"Okay," Astrid whispered, her voice shaking just a little. "That is... a lot of spiders."

"And very large wolves," Orion added, his eyes wide. "Your dad looks terrifying. My dad looks... wet."

"Focus!" Astrid hissed. She pointed down at the webs. "Look. The spiders are distracted by the adults. The webs near the kids are unguarded."

She looked at the distance. It was a thirty-foot drop to the nearest cluster of cocoons.

"We have to jump," Astrid decided.

"We will break our legs," Orion countered immediately. "And then the spiders will eat us. It’s a bad plan."

"We won’t hit the floor," Astrid said, pointing her sword. "We aim for the webs. They’re sticky, right? We’ll stick."

"That is also a bad plan!" Orion squeaked. "Then we’re stuck!"

"We cut ourselves free once we grab them!" Astrid grabbed Orion’s hand. "On three. One. Two—"

"I didn’t agree to—!"

"THREE!"

Astrid jumped, dragging the screaming Merman Prince with her.

They fell through the purple twilight. The wind rushed past their ears.

SPLAT.

They hit the thick, black strands of the web just above the cluster of trapped children.

"Oof!" Orion grunted as the sticky silk grabbed his clothes. He was dangling upside down by his ankle. "I hate this. I hate adventures. I want to go home and read a book."

Astrid landed better, catching the web with one hand and swinging her sword with the other.

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