He had been walking confidently down the villa's path, but when he saw two creatures—one black, one white—crouching in the yard ahead, he almost thought he'd been lured into a den of wolves.
'Why does that Thunder Element white tiger look so much like that legendary, long-extinct Divine Beast? And that giant wolf…'
'Isn't that a pup from the War Wolf Clan? What is it doing living in human territory?'
He thought of the men from the other families lying in ambush outside and breathed a sigh of relief at his own foresight.
'It's a good thing I didn't join them. Otherwise, not only would it be uncertain if I could get a share of the Divine-level Space Fragment, but if I ended up on bad terms with the War Wolf Clan, my future would be more than just a life of constant terror.'
"Bring him in."
