This Is Beginning Of Next Arc: The Sins of Blood and Shadow Arc
The body was wrong in ways that made even experienced hunters recoil.
Raven Zeus stood at the edge of the Academy's eastern meditation garden—the same garden where Iris had practiced her suspended blade technique just weeks ago—and felt her Thunder affinity respond to the wrongness with instinctive revulsion. Her golden eyes tracked details that her conscious mind didn't want to process, cataloging evidence with the clinical precision her mother had trained into her since childhood.
The victim was male, perhaps thirty years old, though it was difficult to be certain given the state of the corpse. He wore the formal attire of visiting dignitaries—expensive cut, quality materials, the kind of clothing that announced importance without ostentation. His Academy visitor credentials identified him as Marcus Aero, distant cousin to Raya and Iris, a mid-ranking hunter from one of the Aero family's branch households.
