Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 975

Chapter 975: Chapter 975 - Taming the Ceremony - 3

The master of ceremonies had been conducting sessions of this nature for fifty years.

He had seen negotiations where both sides wanted an agreement and only needed the format to reach it. He had seen sessions where one party arrived with the decision already made and the protocol was merely the mechanism for putting it on record. And he had seen... less often, but often enough to know the category when it appeared in front of him, sessions where the hall was a battlefield with chairs and courtesy forms instead of weapons.

Where every procedural exchange carried weight that the words themselves didn’t show, and where the people in the room were simultaneously conducting two separate conversations, only one of which was audible but much less important than the other.

This was that third category...

The fight of this one was about time.

He had known it since Julius Dravenholm insisted on the full formal representation count, which was a procedure that existed in the rulebook and that no one had executed in its complete form for several decades because it served no practical purpose when nobody abused the rules it was designed to prevent abusing.

They were losing, and the second part would be the important one.

He had confirmed it when Orion Starweaver left his army outside but was in no rush.

And he had no remaining doubt as he managed the transition from the defense merits phase to the ownership claims phase, the point where everything that had been developing just below the surface was going to start being said out loud.

"Defense contributions are hereby registered for previously minor-classified participants for the crisis period against mutants of the period two years prior," he announced with the same monotone volume the protocol required and the perfect enunciation of someone who had long since stopped needing to think about it either.

"The Starweaver Day faction, represented by Miss Luna Starweaver, certifies active participation in the defense of the external defensive perimeter with a recorded count of eliminations and effective defense certified by the highest-ranking tamers present. But also, the Starweaver Night faction, represented by Lord Orion Starweaver, certifies contribution in the Yino sector during the containment period."

He paused, as the record required before the relevant complication.

"Both reward sets dispute portions of the same territory and leadership of the same family. Several of Lord Orion’s non-budgetary rewards were therefore deferred pending the majority of age of the young lady."

Another pause.

"The session now proceeds to the evaluation of complementary academic merits in accordance with the fifth-year record."

Orion’s faction representative was a man with a broad, unreadable face who had learned to present Orion’s faction arguments with enough fluency that they sounded like his own conclusions. The master of ceremonies had seen him operate in two previous sessions, both of which had produced outcomes that were convenient for the opportunistic faction in ways that, reviewed afterward, had a clear shape to them.

"The final classification of the fifth year cannot be certified," the representative said, with the calm of someone who has prepared the argument in advance and is now simply delivering it at the perfect moment.

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