Chapter 23 The Hidden Strength

• "For a moment, it wasn't him fighting. It was us."
• The arena pulsed with unnatural silence after my scream tore through the night, the raw force of my wolf's aura rolling like an invisible storm through the assembled crowd. Students stumbled backward as if physically struck, some clutching their chests as they struggled to breathe under the crushing weight of my unleashed power. Even the Academy instructors, hardened by decades of managing supernatural conflicts, looked genuinely shaken by what they were witnessing.
• I stood trembling in the sudden quiet, my breath coming in ragged gasps, my entire body buzzing with a strength that didn't feel entirely like my own. The energy coursing through my veins was foreign yet familiar, ancient yet newly awakened—power that had been dormant in my bloodline for generations, waiting for the right moment to surface.