Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 983

Chapter 983: Chapter 983 - Taming the Ceremony - 11

"The session proceeds to... Luna Starweaver."

Orion didn’t wait for the master of ceremonies to even finish settling into his position.

"Before proceeding, the Night faction wishes to note that several of the merits listed for Miss Starweaver present overlap with contributions already claimed by our faction during the same period."

The Night representative also said his part with the fluency of someone who had rehearsed the sentence. "We request simultaneous review to avoid duplication in the record."

Luna listened to it with the face she had learned to wear since she was small.

Julius responded with the documentation he had prepared in advance, because he had spent enough time studying Orion’s methods to know the pattern of demands would repeat itself. Luna’s contributions had been certified independently, with signatures from tamers who belonged to neither faction in dispute.

The overlaps the Night faction was pointing to were technically nonexistent when the complete and current records were read... but that wasn’t the point.

The point was to blur the lines enough to create negotiable ambiguity, to make what was clearly defined look contested, to wear down the clarity of the record through volume of objection.

The Night representative pressed the same empty arguments in different configurations, the kind that served no purpose except to shift the opinion of the distracted or the credulous.

Larissa, without moving from her position, passed something to Luna in a voice too low to reach anyone else. Luna incorporated it two exchanges later when the opening was correct. The argument landed well, the representative’s insistence collapsed, and Orion let it collapse without fighting too hard.

Because it wasn’t the argument that mattered to him.

It was just the warm-up.

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The distribution of intrafamily leadership was the first real point.

The Day faction theoretically controlled half of the Starweaver family from the perspective of lineage and tradition. But in practice, the Night faction controlled the majority of the active military force and the extraction territories, over 80% of the operational infrastructure, accumulated gradually over the last years of absence, disaster, and deliberate consolidation.

Orion’s argument was that effective leadership should correspond to whoever had actual operational capacity, and that a fifteen-year-old with no independent governing experience didn’t meet that criterion regardless of her lineage and what he called ’a few little exams’, however traditional they were.

It was an argument with enough surface logic that the room listened to it.

"Lineage does not automatically confer competence," said the Night representative, with the tone of someone presenting a reasonable consideration that just happened to align with everything his faction wanted.

"Tradition is relevant but it is not the only criterion. The Starweaver family has been without stable leadership for several years now. What it needs is to keep someone capable of exercising that leadership consistently and effectively."

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