At this moment, the moon hung halfway up the sky, around midnight.
Yue Jinghua heard some rustling voices.
The voices were vaguely familiar; they belonged to Shalman, mixed with a man's voice.
Although Yue Jinghua disliked Shalman, she had to admit that Shalman had a talent for beast taming. Beast tamers and Summoners were somewhat similar, except that Shalman could only command the Dark Beasts that she had hand-raised. While Summoners were more adept at conjuring Dark Beasts out of thin air.
The Thunder Snake that Shalman summoned that day was a Fifth-level Dark Beast, a perilous species on the continent. The ability to raise a Thunder Snake and tame it made Shalman's worth far exceed that of a Dark Jade of the Inner Court.
Yue Jinghua couldn't understand why the Sha Family would let someone as talented as Shalman waste her days away in the Outer Court.