Luke exhaled deeply, every pore on his body drenched in sweat.
Luke thought the ordeal was over, but exactly one month later, as Zoe Miller neared her due date, a massive leopard demon's corpse fell from the sky into Blue Wolf Valley.
Even from a distance, Luke could see the shimmering crystal embedded in its chest—a sub-monarch spirit.
The Female Wolf King had sent a gift.4
"Ahhh!"
Inside the cave, Zoe Miller was drenched in sweat, her screams echoing off the stone walls.
"Come on, Zoe, give it all you've got!" Tanya Reed urged, wiping Zoe's forehead with a damp cloth.
"You're doing great, Zoe. Just a little more," Marissa Jones encouraged, tightly gripping Zoe's left hand.
Aric, holding her right hand, added, "Stay strong, Zoe. We're almost there."
The four of them worked together, and finally, amidst Zoe's cries, the piercing wail of a newborn filled the air.
[Ding, the host has been detected to have an offspring.]
