Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons

Chapter 409 - Tamers 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 home. The beastʼs unease was a warning system she had learned to trust… It meant trouble was approaching.

Her fatherʼs closest guards had come for her, escorting her with rushed steps to his office. Their faces bore the neutral expressions of men delivering unwelcome news.

”Luna.” Her fatherʼs 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 become 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 immediately 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 Siriusʼs emotional state, becoming smaller and more defensive. ”Is something 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 message tied to its leg now crumpled in her fatherʼs hands.

In recent years, especially after the problems with the rebellious family branch, Sirius hadnʼt had a single second of real rest. Even visiting the school during the battles had been a political affair, which meant he had interacted with her very little.

His responsibilities as one of Yanoʼs primary military leaders, combined with the constant extra political pressure from his own family members, had created a distance that Luna felt daily but never mentioned.

She understood… Or so she wanted to believe.

Thatʼs why, in the few moments when he wasnʼt 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 message, Luna could see something that alarmed her: not just annoyance, but genuine concern.

His fingers moved quickly as he rolled the small parchment. 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 moment, she knew that whatever was in that message 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 same 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.

”Weʼre leaving,” Sirius announced, burning the first message with a small flame that consumed the parchment 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 message 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 emergencies.

She could now also appreciate the speed of her fatherʼs 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 method. 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, youʼll get more abilities and be able to absorb elemental control from the environment, but youʼll damage its potential and wonʼt be able to pass Gold 1. What you want is a Light Devourer.”

Ren had explained at length how the Light Devourer still wouldnʼt have elemental control, could only synergize better with light, but could evolve into a Lesser Elemental Devourer when it reached Silver instead of a Natural Shadow.

Luna had understood almost everything, though not where Ren got those names as if he were reading some taxonomic book.

In the end, the Light Devourer wasnʼt a very impressive change in the wolf, not in size or abilities, but Luna had chosen to trust.

According to Ren, the Lesser Elemental Devourer would have the same elemental 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 come 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. Lunaʼs 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 hadnʼt had problems with materials or evolutionary route, he had just optimized cultivation time again. ”One hundred days, theyʼre 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 times unlike Lunaʼs five times. 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.