Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1036

Chapter 1036: Chapter 1036 - Taming Contentment - 4

Not a long song.

Not elaborate either... Just one verse, four lines in the register of the ceremonial songs the Dravenholm family had used at military events since before most people present were born, the register of things meant to be said once and remembered.

His voice was low, with the resonance of voices that filled a space differently from how they filled it in conversation. The kind of voice that suggested the speaker had been given something and had chosen not to use it, until now. It was unexpectedly good.

What was left unfinished belongs to those who walk ahead. What was given by destiny was wholeheartedly donated to the city that birthed a Diamond Stead. Courage that has nothing to gain from honesty is the only honest kind. Welcome is not given by blood; it is earned by the worthy stud who proves they’re self-defined.

Four lines.

It was about the future built on what others left behind.

About the debt a city owed to someone who had arrived without a name and yet did more than those who had big ones.

About the honesty of courage when it had nothing to gain from being honest.

And about the welcome owed to someone who had demonstrated that deserving it didn’t require having been born to it.

The silence that followed lasted long enough to digest the unexpected good quality and meaning before the applause arrived, it started in the sections closest to the stage and spread outward as the people further back understood what they had just heard.

Several people in the prominent family sections looked at Victor with the expression of someone who had heard something readable in multiple ways and had understood the reading that carried the most weight.

The one that said the eldest Dravenholm prince had just publicly described someone as the natural continuation of what his father had left unfinished. In ceremony language. In front of witnesses. With the weight of the Dravenholm military tradition behind every word.

Victor had the face of someone who had done what needed to be done and needed to change the attention somewhere else immediately.

Selphira was smiling with the unhurried satisfaction of someone who had made a bet, won it, and found the winning price more enjoyable than expected.

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The three Dravenholm brothers moved together after the small performance.

Julius first, carrying the 3 small gift boxes Ren had asked him to hold, which several people in the hall had already noticed him carrying without commenting, because Julius Dravenholm carrying something without announcing it meant there was a moment for the announcement already calculated to give those to someone, and asking early would only make the moment arrive before it was perfect. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

Arturo beside him with a posture that showed he knew this was one of the moments that people came back to years later when they tried to explain something big or the start of a new era, and who was therefore holding it with more attention than any normal program required.

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