Chapter 409: Chapter 409 – Tars War – Shadow Jumpers (1/2)
Luna had barely finished the first half of her morning training routine when hurried footsteps in the corridor shattered her concentration.
Her Light Devourer Wolf stirred restlessly beneath her skin, responding to the tension that suddenly filled the air of their damaged family ho. The beast’s unease was a warning system she had learned to trust… It ant trouble was approaching.
Her father’s closest guards had co for her, escorting her with rushed steps to his office. Their faces bore the neutral expressions of n delivering unwelco news.
“Luna.” Her father’s voice cut through the silence.
There was no visible emotion in his tone, there never was, but after eleven years of life, Luna had learned to read the subtleties that others overlooked. She had beco an expert in the micro-expressions and tiny tells that betrayed what Sirius Starweaver truly felt behind his mask of control.
Sirius approached her with his characteristic silent grace, but Luna imdiately noticed the almost imperceptible rigidity in his shoulders, the way his eyes scanned the soldiers before dismissing them a fraction of a second longer than usual. His Celestial Tiger created more pronounced patterns than normal on his skin, a subtle but clear indicator of his alertness and internal agitation.
He was upset. More than upset… he was genuinely disturbed, though his perpetually neutral expression showed not a trace of that internal turmoil.
“Father?” Luna returned her wolf to her shadow, where it had been manifested before the training interruption. Once in shadow form, it reduced partially in response to Sirius’s emotional state, becoming smaller and more defensive. “Is sothing wrong?”
“Change of plans,” was all he said initially, but Luna saw how his eyes drifted toward the window, where a swift bird waited on the sill… what had been a ssage tied to its leg now crumpled in her father’s hands.
In recent years, especially after the problems with the rebellious family branch, Sirius hadn’t had a single second of real rest. Even visiting the school during the battles had been a political affair, which ant he had interacted with her very little.
His responsibilities as one of Yano’s primary military leaders, combined with the constant extra political pressure from his own family mbers, had created a distance that Luna felt daily but never ntioned.
She understood… Or so she wanted to believe.
That’s why, in the few monts when he wasn’t busy or when he was with her, Luna always paid him the greatest possible attention, even at superhuman levels of perception. She had learned to read every micro-expression, every subtle change in his posture, every variation in the tone of his voice.
And now, as Sirius approached the bird to respond to the ssage, Luna could see sothing that alard her: not just annoyance, but genuine concern.
His fingers moved quickly as he rolled the small parchnt. Luna watched how his eyes moved from left to right, writing words that clearly displeased him. The tension in his jaw was almost invisible, but she caught it.
When he finished, he glanced at her sideways, a gesture so brief that anyone else would have missed it.
But Luna saw it. And in that mont, she knew that whatever was in that ssage concerned her directly.
Without saying a word, Luna discretely touched the letter in her pocket, the new letter she had received weeks ago from the sa person who stood before her. She had no choice but to believe in it if she wanted to stay “strong” as her mother had always taught her. Whatever was happening, she would face the situation with the composure expected of a Starweaver.
“We’re leaving,” Sirius announced, burning the first ssage with a small fla that consud the parchnt in seconds. “Now.”
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Luna held onto her father as they jumped from shadow to shadow, the world passing in blurred streaks of light and darkness.
During the journey, Luna tried to process what little she knew. The ssage had arrived by a very swift bird, which implied high-level official communication. The urgency was obvious… whatever had motivated this sudden trip was serious enough to justify using unconventional travel techniques normally reserved for the biggest ergencies.
She could now also appreciate the speed of her father’s shadow serpent now that her wolf had leveled up.
Luna had started the cultivation that her family had obtained from the soldier who managed to bring his wolf to Gold 1 a bit early.
But Ren… his advice had saved her forty-five “useless” days according to him, with a more “aggressive” absorption thod. Yet Luna had been grateful because it allowed her to reach Bronze 2 in her first year. Her wolf had progressed from Shadow Wolf to Dark Wolf at Bronze 1 and then…
Then Ren had had much to say again. “If you do that and transform it into a Greater Dark Wolf, you’ll get more abilities and be able to absorb elental control from the environnt, but you’ll damage its potential and won’t be able to pass Gold 1. What you want is a Light Devourer.”
Ren had explained at length how the Light Devourer still wouldn’t have elental control, could only synergize better with light, but could evolve into a Lesser Elental Devourer when it reached Silver instead of a Natural Shadow.
Luna had understood almost everything, though not where Ren got those nas as if he were reading so taxonomic book.
In the end, the Light Devourer wasn’t a very impressive change in the wolf, not in size or abilities, but Luna had chosen to trust.
According to Ren, the Lesser Elental Devourer would have the sa elental control as the Greater Dark Wolf, which might be little for a beast a rank above and already being at Silver 1, but the control will co with greater freedom and then would improve faster and with greater potential.
Still, the main increases of 150% from a Tier 3 beast were noticeable. Luna’s Speed and Perception 150% and 90% in all her other capabilities were undoubtedly great.
Her Cat had also reached Bronze 1, another Tier 3 beast now with increases of 100% and 60%.
In the cat case, Ren hadn’t had problems with materials or evolutionary route, he had just optimized cultivation ti again. “One hundred days, they’re all one hundred days,” he liked to insist.
But she could notice that her father, as a double contractor, was on another level entirely.
His ranks multiplied his increases a total of 17 tis unlike Luna’s five tis. His mature Silver 3 serpent gave him 7 multipliers, and although many called it an unfortunate tier 2 beast from a black egg for a double contractor like Sirius, the synergy with the Celestial Tiger was excellent.
And his Greater Celestial Tiger at Gold 3 rank gave him another 10 multipliers.
Luna could only dream of one day reaching this speed.
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