2024-09-19 00:01:47Jack turned, his demeanor instantly shifting as he sized up Alex.
Puffing out his chest like a blowfish, his fists clenched, and his eyes narrowed with hostility.
"So, you're the one extorting and harassing my sister, huh?" Jack sneered.
"Let me warn you: a pathetic man like you had better stay away from her. Keep pestering her, and you’ll be digging your own grave."
Alex snorted, amused.
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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
Proofread & edited version: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.
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
Chapter 709
Alex didn't raise his voice. He never needed to."Febyella." Something in the flatness of it made even Marta go still. "You mustn't forgive them. Not for this. Not tonight.""Give them an inch now, and they'll spend the rest of your life proving you were right to give it — and wrong to think it meant anything changed. Let them answer first. Let them pay for what they took before you decide whether to carry it for them."Nobody in the room breathed.Then Marta broke — no dignity left to spend, no register left to retreat into.She went down on her knees in front of her granddaughter, gloved hands closing over Feby's, and the others followed like the gesture was contagious.Adeline pressed her face to the back of Feby's hand.Leon kept saying sorry, sorry, sorry, the word worn smooth.Wilhelmina just held on, shaking, silent.Their lives depended on one word from her.Feby stood rigid in the middle of it, breathing carefully. She did not sit back down."This is his doing." Marta didn't
Chapter 708
The knock came the day after the ultimatum — soft, uncertain, the kind Feby almost mistook for pipes settling in the walls.She opened the door expecting a healer's follow-up, maybe a Reagent courier. Instead: her grandmother, her mother, Leon, and Wilhelmina, dressed too plain for any of them, holding a single shoebox tied with string between them like something they'd rehearsed holding.Nobody spoke. Marta's gloved hands trembled at her sides. Leon's eyes wouldn't land anywhere. Wilhelmina hung a half-step behind the others, smaller than Feby remembered."Febyella." Marta's voice had none of the banquet stage left in it. "May we come in? Just to speak. We won't stay."Feby's hand found the doorframe. She thought, seriously, about shutting it in their faces.Behind her, Alex stood three steps into the kitchen, a cup halfway to his mouth, watching her decide — saying nothing, because this wasn't a choice anyone got to make for her twice.She stepped aside.They crowded onto the small
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