System upgrade

For the next several hours, Cael and Princess—who was now the Nest's queen, but he still called her Princess, which she didn't seem to mind—dealt with the consequences of the fight.

Princess licked her wounds and rounded up her lesser dragons. The little lizards obeyed her groaning calls with no hesitation, and could do simple tasks like patching holes in the Nest's walls, cleaning up the broken eggs and dealing with Queen's massive corpse.

The latter they and Princess did in the most direct yet morbid way possible—they ate her, or at least began to. But only after Cael drained the body from all the blood. The swamp dragons had no qualms against cannibalism.

After this, Princess addressed Cael.

"Queen left many sons—enough that I don't need to lay eggs yet. But I will have to, and for that, I will have to let out a mating call… Even so, it might take a while."