Raising Beast Cubs to Find a Husband-Chapter 149: The Tear of the Imugi

The cave was silent, save for the dripping of slime and the heavy, ragged breathing of the Void Abomination.

Jasper stood inches from the creature’s rotting snout. He was so small compared to the beast—a speck of white silk against a wall of purple corruption.

"Jasper! Get back!" Cassian screamed, struggling against the pressure of the Void Magic that filled the room.

Jasper didn’t move. A soft, emerald light began to glow around his small body. It wasn’t a spell he had learned from a book. It was his blood calling out to its ancestor.

"It is alright," Jasper whispered.

He raised his hand. The Abomination hissed, rearing back, its three mismatched eyes rolling in madness.

But Jasper didn’t flinch. He placed his palm gently on the creature’s nose, right between two oozing sores.

Hummmm.

A visible ripple of green energy pulsed from Jasper’s hand into the monster.

The Abomination froze. The thrashing stopped. The purple Void veins pulsing under its skin slowed down.

"It is not a monster, Brother," Jasper said, turning his head slightly to look at Cassian. His voice was trembling, but his words were precise. "It is a victim. The Void Magic is burning its insides. It is in agony."

The creature let out a low, warbling sound. It wasn’t a roar. It sounded like a sob. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

It lowered its massive head, resting it on the floor next to Jasper, seeking the coolness of his aura.

High above on the jade platform, The Boss leaned over the railing. He adjusted his cuffs, looking genuinely fascinated.

"Remarkable," The Boss murmured. "The Void consumes all magic. It eats fire, water, and life. Yet the boy... he is harmonizing with it. He is acting as a biological filter."

He opened his notebook and scribbled a quick diagram.

"The Imugi bloodline possesses a unique resistance to corruption. Fascinating. I wonder how much strain he can take before he breaks?"

Duchess Venetia, standing beside him, looked furious.

"Why is it stopping?!" Venetia shrieked. "Kill the boy! Eat him! Assert your dominance!"

"Quiet, Duchess," The Boss sighed. "You are ruining the data collection."

He raised his hand. Black sparks of Void Magic gathered at his fingertips.

"I think I’ll take them both," The Boss decided. "The Beast for the raw power, and the Boy for the stabilization agent. To the lab."

He snapped his fingers.

CRACK.

Black chains made of solid gravity shot out of the ground. They wrapped around the Abomination’s neck and Jasper’s ankles.

"No!" Primrose shouted.

She didn’t think. She reacted.

Her Sun-Fire Tail ignited. She unleashed a wave of golden fire at the chains.

WHOOSH.

The fire hit the chains, but the Void Magic simply ate the flames. The chains tightened, dragging Jasper across the floor.

"Let him go!" Cassian roared.

He reached into his robes and pulled out three glass vials. He threw them with terrifying accuracy.

SMASH.

The vials broke on the chains. A cloud of neon-green gas exploded outward—Cassian’s signature venom, highly corrosive to magic constructs.

The chains hissed and dissolved into smoke.

Jasper scrambled back, hugging the snout of the confused monster.

The Boss tutted. "Annoying."

He hopped down from the platform. He didn’t use stairs; he just floated down, controlling gravity.

He landed softly in front of them. The pressure in the room increased tenfold. Orion fell to his knees, gasping for air.

"You are out of your depth, Snake Lord," The Boss said pleasantly. "And you, little Fox. You have three tails. I have the power of a dead god. Do the math."

He waved his hand. A wall of invisible force slammed into Cassian and Primrose, pinning them against the jade wall.

"Now," The Boss walked toward Jasper. "Come along, child. We have science to do."

"Stay away from him!" Primrose screamed, struggling against the gravity.

Venetia, seeing her "God" being treated like a pet, lost her mind. She grabbed a jagged piece of jade from the floor and charged at the monster.

"Wake up!" Venetia screamed. "You are a destroyer! Act like one!"

She stabbed the Abomination in the flank.

SCREEEEEE!

The pain broke Jasper’s calming trance. The Abomination went berserk. It whipped its head around, knocking Venetia into a wall. Its purple eyes began to glow with unstable, explosive energy.

The purple slime on its skin began to bubble.

"It’s going to self-destruct!" Orion yelled from the floor. "The magical core is critical!"

"It will kill Jasper!" Cassian shouted, thrashing against the invisible wall.

Primrose looked at the monster. She looked at the purple corruption covering it.

Then, she looked at her tails.

White. Silver. Gold.

The White Tail wasn’t just ice. It was purity. It was the frost that killed bacteria. The Sun-Fire Tail wasn’t just heat. It was the sun that banished shadows.

Sunlight cleanses, Primrose realized. I shouldn’t be trying to burn the monster. I should be burning the sickness.

"Jasper!" Primrose yelled, channeling every ounce of magic she had. "Hold him still! Don’t let go!"

"I can’t!" Jasper cried, hugging the thrashing beast. "He is too hot!"

"Trust me!" Primrose screamed.

She closed her eyes. She stopped fighting the gravity and started pulling magic from the tails.

White and Gold mixed together.

Sun-Cleansing Flame.

"BURN!"

She unleashed a torrent of blinding, white-gold fire. It washed over the room. It engulfed Jasper and the Abomination.

"PRIMROSE!" Cassian screamed in horror.

But the fire didn’t burn skin. It felt warm. It felt like a summer afternoon.

The fire latched onto the black chains and the purple slime. It hissed, eating away the Void corruption like bleach on a stain.

The Abomination screamed, but the sound changed. It went from a roar of pain to a sigh of relief.

The light faded. The smoke cleared.

The massive, rotting Abomination was gone. The Void chains were gone.

In the center of the room, Jasper was sitting on the floor, covered in soot but unharmed.

And coiled around his arm, sleeping peacefully, was a snake.

It was small—no bigger than a garden hose. It was a brilliant, healthy emerald green. It had tiny horns on its head and three closed eyes. But on its forehead, embedded in the scales, was a glowing, purified gem.

The Yeouiju. The Celestial Jewel. It hadn’t disappeared; it had become the heart of the new Imugi.

"Phase One failure," The Boss’s voice cut through the silence.

They turned. The Boss was brushing soot off his grey suit. He looked... disappointed, but not defeated.

"The Void compatibility was rejected," he muttered, writing in his notebook. "The subject reverted to its base form upon purification. Pity. I really wanted a Void Dragon."

He looked at Primrose.

"Well done, Nanny. You are becoming more of a problem."

He tapped a device on his wrist. A vertical slit of darkness—a portal—opened behind him.

"Wait!" Cassian shouted, lunging forward with his daggers.

"Not today," The Boss smiled. He stepped backward into the portal. "I have a wedding to plan, after all."

ZIP.

The portal vanished. He was gone.

Before they could breathe, the heavy jade doors at the entrance were blasted off their hinges.

BOOM.

A wave of water washed into the room, carrying debris and unconscious guards.

Caspian strode in. He was soaking wet, his blue tunic torn, and he looked furious. Water swirled around him like a cloak.

"Did you kill it?" Caspian barked, scanning the room. "Because I have been fighting stone statues for ten minutes and I am very annoyed."

He spotted Primrose alive. The anger instantly vanished from his face. He rushed over to her.

"You’re safe," Caspian let out a breath, grabbing her shoulders. "You foolish Fox. I told you to run."

"I had to save the kid," Primrose mumbled, leaning against him. She felt incredibly heavy.

"Are you hurt?" Cassian asked, walking over with Jasper and the baby snake.

"I’m just... tired," Primrose whispered. "My magic feels... weird."

She felt a strange itch at the base of her spine. It wasn’t the burning heat of the Sun-Fire tail, or the cold of the Frost tail.

It felt like... growing. Like a sprout pushing through soil.

POP.

A sound like a cork popping echoed in the quiet cave.

Luna gasped. "Prim! Look!"

Primrose turned her head.

Next to her White, Silver, and Golden tails... was a fourth one.

It was Emerald Green.

It wasn’t fluffy like the others. It was sleek, smelling of fresh mint, rain, and crushed herbs. The tip of it bloomed with a small, bioluminescent flower.

The Green Tail (Wood/Nature).

"You purified a Void Beast," Orion noted, fascinated. "You converted necrotic energy into life energy. Your body adapted to store the excess Nature Magic."

Primrose stared at the green tail. It waved at her, shedding a little cloud of healing pollen.

"Great," Primrose groaned, her eyes rolling back in her head. "Now I’m a salad. Wake me up for dinner."

She fainted into Caspian’s arms.

Jasper looked at the tiny green snake on his arm, then at the green tail on Primrose.

"We match," Jasper whispered, smiling for the first time in a while.

The only enemy left was Venetia.

She was slumped against the wall, bleeding from a head wound. She stared at the tiny green snake on Jasper’s arm.

"My dragon..." she whispered, her voice broken. "It was supposed to be... magnificent."

Cassian walked over to her. He didn’t draw his weapon. He just looked down at her with pity.

"It is magnificent, Venetia," Cassian said softly. "It is alive. And it is pure."

He looked at Jasper, who was gently petting the sleeping snake.

"You wanted power," Cassian told his cousin. "But you forgot the first rule of the Snake Clan. We do not force the shed. We wait for the skin to peel."

Venetia began to weep. Not out of remorse, but out of total loss.