Chapter 168

Chloe

The noon soon came and I woke up after catching a little bit of sleep.

When I got out of my room, I immediately saw Esha’s figure phasing back and forth in my door. Her

figure was full of anxiousness and remorse.

“T-teacher!” As soon as I swung the door open, Esha looked at me with a conflicted expression. She

appears to be hesitating in approaching me because of the mishap she did earlier.

"Why are you here? Have you finished restoring the clinic to its original state?” I asked, still with a

stern expression.

Esha was too young when I met her and started to teach her medicine. Because most of her peers

were not able to survive back then, she was always treated in high regard by becoming my student.

What happened earlier was a realization to me that I have to build Esha’s good character as well.

Esha is shy and timid, but when it comes to certain things like medicine, she may become arrogant

and prideful. As such, I decided to use this situation to let her learn about humility and respect.

“I.. we finished cleaning up already Teacher... but we were not able to replenish the herbs that were

destroyed by the incident...” As Esha explained these things, her head hung low in guilt.

“Teacher... I'm sorry... I did not think things through and caused our pack'’s precious medicines to be

wasted just like that...” Her expressions seemed to now realize the extent of the damage that she

made because of acting hastily.

However, she also had to learn to fix the trouble she had made, “You should apologize to Arthur

later, just like I said earlier, most of my knowledge was taught by him and my Master, his father. You

should give him the respect that is due to him...”

"As for the wasted medicine, I will give you three days to gather and prepare all of it. Moreover, you

are to stay in the pack for three months and not go out until I permit it. That would be your

punishment.” I explained.

“Three days... Teacher... that's...” Surprised at my orders, Esha looked at me dumbfounded as she

estimated the reasonable time to replenish all the wasted medicines and herbs was way far than the

time I gave her.

“No complaining! If you could have dealt with the situation responsibly and not reacted hastily then

you wouldn't even be in this predicament.” I told her before stepping out and seeing the rest of the

pack.

When I got out, the rest who were also punished because of the incident all came to apologize to

Arthur as well.

As for Caleb, I “punished’ him by sending him back to the Frost Fang Pack to escort Arthur and

continue the preparation for the plans inside their territory.

Our plan consists of two interlinked phases. First is the plan to conceal our operations while

strengthening Blake's Frost Fang Pack’s reputation inside Alpha Kain's forces.

The next few days will be filled with a lot of information gathering and plot work, so that we could

create a picture that Frost Fang Pack is genuinely tracing and eradicating any sign of the Red Moon

Pack’s existence.

The next part of the plan is to slowly eliminate the packs that help Alpha Kain gain their prestige. In

doing so, we shall also make it seem like a number of these packs were cooperating with the Red

Moon Pack and are plotting to betray Alpha Kain.

However, remembering how cunning and extremely wary Alpha Kain was, we could only do this in

moderation.

Moreover, the execution of this plan was really complicated and it needed a lot of manpower. The

Frost Fang Pack, Silver Pack and Red Moon Pack might not be enough to execute this on a wider

scale that is why we agreed to only start this after a month of preparation.

Just like that, the day passed so quickly.

Once again, I stood in the clearing where I waited for Blake to come. While it was interrupted earlier,

I knew that Blake meant for us to meet again to train.

Remembering our sudden parting, my lips tingle a bit as if it did not forget the sensation of Blake's

kiss earlier on. A swift breeze passed by and the next moment, Blake was already in front of me.

"How are you feeling?” He asked while his arms moved to pull me in his embrace.

I sank into his chest and allowed my entire body to savor his warmth and scent, “Pretty messy and

hectic...”

Blake let out a chuckle before leaning down to plant a wet yet searing kiss on my forehead, “I just

heard that your student and Arthur caused a mess...”

"Yeah... we've lost a lot of material in the process...” We talked for a moment while we rested in each

other's body before Blake moved to start the training once more.

"Are you ready for tonight's training?” He asked.

“Let's do this...” Feeling Aurora's excitement, my determination soared as well as I nodded and

agreed.

"Alright..." Blake then stood up and demonstrated something.

It was a normal swinging motion using his hands but it was executed so fast. I only realized that the

nearby tree where his swing was directed was already broken in two parts.

I looked at Blake in awe, asking if he could do it again. I now realized that it was different from when

one usually uses the wolf powers to exhibit strength. While it was a basic motion, it was efficient and

even more powerful than how I do it with Aurora's powers.

He let out a chuckle and asked, “What do you think I did when I executed that attack?”

"Ermm... it was so fast that I couldn't figure out the details, all I know is that you used Eron’s power

to exhibit such strength and hit the tree...” I shook my head and relayed my conclusion.

Surprisingly, Blake shook his head and replied, “Wrong... I did not pull Eron’s power out... I shifted a

part of my hand to Eron’s form.”)

I titled my head and was confused, shifting only a part of one’s body is something I haven't heard

of.

“It's like this... when you “pull’ your wolf's strength, you are only borrowing a part of her strength

and not utilizing it to the fullest. On average, we can only exhibit 40-50% of our wolf's powers when

we “pull’ them to utilize in battle.”

“But when you shift, even if it is only partial, you are able to use up to 75% of your wolf's power

output without fully shifting.”

"Also, we have our own limitations when we fight in each form... For instance, we are much more

agile and explosive when we shift, but we are more precise in our attacks when we fight in our

human forms.”

"Having the ability to partially shift is the most efficient way of fighting for longer battles.”

"Of course, shifting fully still remains as our strongest form but that would be another training for

you to take on.”

The more Blake explained what it means to partially shift, the more I was amazed and baffled. It was

like Blake was ushering me to a new world which I never knew exists!