Lunar Awakening-Chapter 76: A Meeting Of Nobles

There was a dark room several meters wide and shaped in a circle, in the middle was a huge wooden roundtable painted black and polished smooth. Around the round table was seven chairs all made of the same ebony wood, the workmanship of the chairs was a beauty to behold.

The source of light in the room came from a huge hole in the roof of the room which was the full moon’s light falling down on the table and illuminating the room.

The walls of the room were covered in sharp rocks rather than smooth block, this gave the room’s walls a cave-like appearance.

Etched into the middle of the table was a crafts work of a silver wolf’s head howling out. Each chair had a specific detail to them strange and peculiar, insignias each using parts of the wolf in a different way.

All of the chairs were occupied except for two of them, on the rest were silhouettes hidden in darkness. The air was foreboding and cold, for several seconds it almost felt like the room remained stagnant in time.

Then a voice spoke, it was a dark masculine voice that came of more as a growl than words. "I have gathered all you noble lords for a very crucial reason. Barely two weeks have passed since the demise of the elusive George Lüdovic Kriston and our ranks have been greatly affected."

A soft chuckle sounded, this one from a female with a high pitched voice. "Listen to you Gregory, you call us here to sympathise over the death of the traitor? That man caused the massacre of my entire pack, I will never forgive that scum."

Gregory banged his fist on the table causing a loud bang to resound across the room and summoning a long silence. "I don’t care whatever you think you bitch, I have called us here for more important matters."

Another voice spoke, that of an uninterested male growl. "Some of us have fucking lives and packs to get back to why don’t you speed things up. We a-holes all know we only gather where shits about to go down so drop the bad news and let us be on our merry way."

Gregory sighed heavily before calming down and pointing to the chair at the end of the hall with a spherical silver gem embedded in the middle of its back rest. It shimmered every few seconds before going off repeatedly.

The other nobles looked at this and mummured among themselves.

"Holy lunar hell, is that what I think it is?" Asked one of them.

Gregory nodded and said. "When a noble alpha is being born it tips the scale of the power we have desperately tried to maintain for hundreds of years. What I find peculiar is who that chair belongs to, I think George might have passed on his legacy to someone in his final moments."

The woman from earlier scoffed and said, "I’ll find this person and kill them, I’ll make sure to end that pathetic bastards legacy."

The uninterested voice from earlier spoke again, "But why? I know George was bad news but he was useful to our course once, the fewer nobles we have the more detrimental it is to us."

The woman lashed out again, "Don’t you remember how dangerous it is to have rogue nobles running around? If our enemies get their hands on this person before us, our race will be exterminated."

The uninterested voice spoke again, "Maybe so, but what if this person is on our side. Might be bad to waste an ally in our conquest."

Gregory cleared his throat gaining the attention of everyone. "I see we all have a problem coming to a conclusion, we still cannot see beyond the treachery of George. So I propose we do this instead, which ever of our pack members comes into contact with this person with George’s bastard legacy, kill him. We can’t have another anomaly with that cursed legacy."

The other nobles stared at Gregory and nodded slowly.

The uninterested voice smiled slightly, revealing rows of sharp fangs growing out from underneath. "After all this time I can’t believe we still hold meetings like savages."

Leo gasped to life on his bed, his face sweating profusely. His chest ran at a hundred miles and hour unable to control his thoughts as they spun around like wildfire.

He could see the faces of everyone Xavax had killed haunting him and it infuriated him. "Bastard, why am I having your nightmares."

He looked forward to seeing sunlight streaming into the room signifying that the sun had risen long ago. He wondered why he had slept for so long or more importantly why Trish had not woken him up, his little sister usually made it her job to wake him. But he guessed she must have seen his condition earlier.

He sat there in his bed with his blanket tousled around him, he tried to catch his breath and think about the night before. The more he thought about it, the more he was offended with himself.

A part of himself blamed him for losing control in such a crucial moment, another part hated the fact that Xavax had to step in.

But perhaps what Leonardo Hall hated mostly was his own incompetence. He had let his new abilities get to his head and thought he was well equipped to face the world, forgetting that he still perhaps the weakest awakened. And the result of such hubris was his death.

Had he not had Xavax he would be leaving his father and sister without any support and to grieve over the fool he had been.

"I’m stupid." Leo said as he punched himself on the face so hard it drew blood. "What was I thinking, no matter how strong I become one mistake can kill me. I have to get much stronger so I don’t die again."

A familiar chime interrupted his moment of despair.

[You have cleared a daily objective: Awaken an exclusive skill "Moon God’s Battle Art" Level 1

You have been awarded 1 lucky roulette coupon]

Leo’s eyes widened for a moment unsure of how to feel at the moment. Just what did it mean he had awakened level of of a skill he had only just recently learned.

Thinking back he had received a message from the sphere when he fought Hinata using the said battle art, he wondered if the exclusive skill had awakened when he used the battle art on an opponent.

If his speculation was true then that would explain why he had felt his entire body finally comprehending the ability in the heat of the battle. Leo however was still not sure of how to feel about this, was it good news or not? But then again none of this would have mattered if he had died the night before.

"Xavax? Are you there?" He called out to his unruly companion and waited for several seconds to be responded by cold silence.

In that one night Leo had felt the most helpless he had ever been in his entire life and also at his strongest when he was Xavax.

That begged another question: does he become Xavax or does Xavax become him? Or did Xavax simply just take control over his humanity. Leo feared that he would be forced to climb up a path of bloodshed if he chose to ally with Xavax. That power felt too intoxicating to merely overlook.

But Leo did not want to climb the path of the strongest while relying on another, he wanted to climb to the top with his own power as a beloved son, and a caring brother.

"I have to get stronger!" He said in a voice filled with grim determination.

He summoned his information and stared at it with deep resolve, he doubted he would see much change but then again with his bizarre abilities-- nothing could ever be certain.

[Name: Leonardo.

Title: Awakened.

Pack: —.

Lunar Core: Awakened.

Soul Fragments: 41/500.]

Leo observed that his soul fragments had increased by four, signifying that he had gotten two pairs of souls fragments from the time Xavax had killed two of those strange people.

"So I get the fragments of his kills," Leo said in a bare whisper. "I wonder if I can use his power again without him taking over.

[Stats—

Strength: 10

Agility: 10

Endurance:11

Vitality: 10

Aura: 5

Lunar Points: 0]

His eyes fell to the only thing that had increased being his endurance which had only been previously at 8. The only logical explanation he could come up with for this change was simply the fact that his body was under a lot of strain the night before from his severed injuries to his death, and then his resurrection.

[Legacy: The Cursed Dire Wolf.

Legacy Rank: Primordial.

Legacy Rank: Omega.

Legacy Abilities: [Moon born].

Inheritance Ability: [Wolf Bond], [Moon God’s Battle Art Lv. 1].

Artifacts: [Red Needle], [Moonfall’s Bride].

Companion: —

Items- (Lucky Roulette Coupon X1)

Leo groaned aloud, if there was anything he hated more than work it was to read excessively.