Raising Beast Cubs to Find a Husband novel Chapter 171

Chapter 171: The Gravity of the Situation

The world didn’t just turn upside down; it broke.

When the Void Sovereign reversed gravity, the Capital became a nightmare of floating debris. Broken pillars, golden statues, and screaming Lion Guards drifted upward into the purple sky.

Rurik flailed his arms, kicking at the air. "I hate flying! Put me down!"

Rajah tried to ignite his sword for propulsion, but without the ground to push off, he just spun in a circle like a fiery top. "This is undignified!"

Caspian, used to three-dimensional movement underwater, was the only one not panicking. He swam through the air, grabbing a floating Leonora by the ankle before she drifted into a black cloud.

"Orient yourselves!" Caspian shouted. "Treat the air like water! Use mana to push!"

Primrose wasn’t drifting. Her Nine Silver Tails acted like rudders, keeping her stable in the chaos.

She looked down—or was it up?—at the Sovereign. He was walking on the air as if it were solid ground, tapping his cane on invisible steps.

"You’re cheating!" Primrose yelled, firing a bolt of silver lightning at him.

The Sovereign swatted the lightning away with his hand. "It is not cheating, Fox. It is Authority. In my domain, down is a suggestion."

He pointed his cane at Prince Bastion, who was floating helplessly near a tower.

"Fall."

Gravity reasserted itself for Bastion alone—but sideways. The Lion General was yanked violently to the left, smashing through a marble wall.

"Dad!" Ellia screamed from the Throne Room window.

Inside the Throne Room, gravity was normal. The ancient stabilizing runes of the Palace kept the interior safe... for now.

The kids were huddled by the window, watching their parents get tossed around like ragdolls.

"They can’t fight like this," Arjun said, his hands shaking as he adjusted his glasses. "Their combat styles rely on leverage and friction. In zero-G, their kinetic output is reduced by 80%."

"We have to help," Vali growled, his eyes flashing red. "Let me out! I’ll bite his face!"

"No," Silas said, grabbing Vali’s collar. "If we go out there, we float too. Then we are just snacks."

Jasper was pacing. He was looking at a panel on the wall covered in ancient diagrams.

"The Sovereign is manipulating the localized graviton field," Jasper muttered, tapping the wall. "He isn’t using magic; he is rewriting the physics of the area. But the Palace... the Palace is resisting."

He looked at Emperor Leonis, who was currently busy holding the door shut against a squad of Void-Beasts.

"Your Majesty!" Jasper called out. "The Palace Stabilization System! Can it be inverted?"

Leonis grunted, skewering a monster. "It’s an ancient defense mechanism! It only keeps us grounded! It wasn’t designed to project gravity outward!"

"But the conduits are connected!" Jasper argued, pulling a panel off the wall to reveal glowing golden crystals. "If we overload the core, we can create a gravity pulse! We can slam everything outside back to the ground!"

"Overload the core?" Leonis looked horrified. "That could blow up the Throne Room!"

"Do we have a better plan?" Luna asked, brandishing her frying pan at a shadow trying to squeeze under the door.

Leonis looked out the window. He saw Primrose dodging debris. He saw his brother Bastion bleeding.

"Do it," Leonis commanded. "Snake boy, you have the conn."

Jasper cracked his knuckles. "I require assistance. Arjun, I need you to calculate the mana overflow. Orion, I need you to act as a heat sink."

Arjun nodded, his fear replaced by focus. He ran to the panel. "Calculations initiating."

Orion sighed, putting down his cracker. "Fine. But I demand hazard pay."

The kids went to work. Jasper rewired the crystals. Arjun shouted numbers. Orion sang a low, cooling note to keep the crystals from exploding.

Silas and Vali stood guard at the door, growling at any shadow that dared to get close.

Outside, the battle was going poorly.

Primrose was holding her own, but she was on the defensive. She was using her Silver Tails to shield the floating Warlords from the Sovereign’s attacks.

"I can’t keep this up!" Primrose grit her teeth. "He’s too strong! He’s playing with us!"

The Sovereign laughed. "Playtime is over."

He raised his cane. The Black Eye in the sky began to pulse. A beam of pure annihilation energy started to charge up.

"Goodbye, Capital City."

Prince Bastion pulled himself out of the rubble of the tower. He was bleeding from a head wound. He saw the beam charging. He saw Primrose’s shield starting to crack.

He looked at the Throne Room window. He saw Ellia.

"Not today," Bastion whispered.

He gripped his claymore. His golden aura flared—not bright yellow, but a deep, burning orange.

The Forbidden Art: The Lion’s Last Roar.

It burned the user’s life force to create a single moment of invincible power.

"Bastion, don’t!" Leonora screamed, floating nearby.

Bastion ignored her. He kicked off the wall, launching himself like a missile straight at the Sovereign.

"FOR THE EMPIRE!" Bastion roared.

He collided with the Sovereign mid-air. The golden explosion was blinding.

For a second, the Sovereign stumbled. The beam in the sky flickered.

But then, a black hand grabbed Bastion by the throat.

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