2024-09-16 00:02:08He had his own affairs to handle, which the Lancasters could only dream of reaching his level.
With just a snap of his fingers, he could make their wildest wishes a reality.
If he so desired, the wealthiest families in the city could lose everything, their fortunes vanishing and businesses crumbling into bankruptcy.
But what good would it do to explain this to a woman as arrogant and narrow-minded as Mrs. Lancaster?
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Chapter 715
A hundred shelters. Fencing that wouldn't hurt anything that leaned on it. A vet station solid enough that even Petrie would have to believe it. And a two-story house — he still hadn't found the sentence that walked that back.Alex studied the map of the Regent branch land. Forest. Governor land, technically unclaimed. His, if he did this right.He waited until the shop went dark. Monica and Yolanda had gone home.He shut the door. Closed his hand around the ring on his finger — plain, forgettable, the kind of thing nobody looked at twice — and reached into the space folded behind it.The drone came first. Palm-sized, matte black, curled shut like a fist that hadn't opened in years. Then the housing unit, wardrobe-sized, hit the floorboards with a thud too heavy for something that had just come out of nowhere. Last, a strip of something thin and skin-soft, weightless, which he pressed to the back of his neck. It settled in like it had never left.Core reconnected. Systems synchronizin
Chapter 714
"Teach," Alex said.It cost him more than the moth had. He felt the mana leave in real time — five for the moth, fifty for this — warmth draining out of his chest and down the lead rope like current through wire. Squall's whole body flinched, not from pain. From being asked a question in a language he half-remembered.The air cracked at the colt's hooves. A blade of wind sheared through the paddock rail and took splinters off it.Squall went still. Stared at his own legs like they belonged to someone else.Alex saw it happen in his face — the flattened ears, the pride gone stiffer than before. Gratitude and humiliation, arriving at the same exact second.He recognized that particular flavor of misery. He'd seen it on Grim the hound, too — an animal that had decided a long time ago that being wanted had to be earned first, because it never had been, not the one time it counted.A runt held back a season past his littermates, passed over again and again for the easy ones. That didn't un
Chapter 713
Alex didn't say it out loud to Yolanda. He turned the question over instead, quiet and careful, the way he turned over everything that mattered now.Could this skill be taught to humans, too?"Monica." He kept his voice low. "Can beast skills be taught to humans?"She looked at him like he'd asked whether water was wet. "Of course. Every skill can be taught. The real question is whether the human's any good at learning it. Some people take five years for something simple. Others take decades. Mostly it comes down to the bond — how close you are to the beast."Alex nodded, but his mind had already moved on. Collect everything. As many skills as he could get his hands on.He found his first target without leaving Willowmere.The town had one licensed healing house — real fees, real credentials, and behind the counter, something rare: a Driftlichen. A floating tuft of moss that trailed spores like smoke and closed wounds in minutes. Champions came here when their own healers weren't enou
Chapter 712
The medal stayed warm in Alex’s hand long after he left the Hall.On the walk back he turned it over, wanting a closer look. Instead the knowledge hit him all at once, the way a forgotten name suddenly returns complete.It was Legendary work. Not praise—just fact. Only something like the guardian could still make a thing like this. What it did was simple to say. Living with it would not be.It could take a beast’s own skill, understand it completely, and make that skill his to give away.Three rules. No exceptions.He had to see the skill used with his own eyes, by the beast that owned it.He had to touch that beast—skin, fur, or hide—while the memory was still fresh.And the time between seeing and touching could not stretch past most of an hour, or the impression faded and the skill failed to copy.Teaching the skill to another beast cost something separate. Strength, spent according to how strong the skill was. And only onto a beast built to receive it. Not people.He stood in the s
Chapter 711
Alex looked at the fox, then at the old woman's face, and understood — with real irritation — that he'd already lost.The fox wasn't dying. That would've been simpler. A dying thing he could argue himself out of.This one was just old: one back leg curled wrong from a break that had healed badly years ago, wheezing thin and soft, like a bellows with the leather gone."Please." The old woman's nerve had run out on the first try. Her voice dropped to almost nothing. "He's all the company I've got left."Behind her, Monica wasn't even trying to hide her smile.Alex exhaled through his nose. "Inside. Not out here where the whole street can watch."He worked fast. No ceremony this time, no long search for the heart by feel — he knew where it sat on this body now.Three needles. A thin thread of inner force, in and gone again inside a minute, just enough to unknot old scar tissue and settle the lungs. The fox jolted awake, blinked up at him with wet black eyes, and immediately tried to bite
Chapter 710
The airport wasn't a terminal. It was a stone platform open to the sky — and before Alex caught the smell of wild magic Beatrix had promised him, a shadow slid across the tarmac, three full seconds ahead of the sound.He looked up. Wings longer than the runway banked once over the rooftops and vanished, unhurried, like a hawk over a field it already owned.Nobody else looked up.A woman walked past with a fox-sized creature draped over her shoulder like a scarf. Six eyes blinked at him, one after another, as they crossed paths. A cart rattled by — something ox-shaped and beetle-plated, hauling crates, answering its handler in clicks that weren't quite a language.This city was built around something Alex didn't have a name for yet. He figured he'd have one by nightfall.Beatrix's directions took him through the merchant quarter and down into streets that got older with every block — buildings sagging, signage faded, the crowd thinning to nothing. Willowmere, the locals called it. The
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