Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 513

Chapter 513: Chapter 513 - Taming Fragments - 2

The advance of the ground forces toward Yino’s castle had been surprisingly smooth.

Despite not being able to fly like the King and his aerial vanguard, the increases to their physical capabilities meant the vast majority were faster than common three-horned horses.

Selphira had established a relentless pace, her serpent gliding over the terrain as if it were liquid.

Others like her rode directly on their beasts: Leonel on his own serpent kept his head low just behind his mother, several minor nobles also mounted on creatures or simply running with superhuman speed.

"Maintain formation!" Selphira shouted as they approached the castle’s outer walls. "We don’t know what kind of..."

She stopped abruptly upon realizing the castle gates were wide open.

The sight was unexpected... unsettling.

"A trap?" Leonel murmured, instinctively positioning himself behind her.

"No," Selphira responded after a moment of analysis, "rather a preselection of the battlefield terrain."

Her mind was already working through the possibilities. An enemy that chose to fight inside rather than at the walls was not confident in their numbers but maybe their quality.

The castle had even less resistance than expected. In fact, there was none in the first rooms.

The workers they found in the main hallways surrendered instantly: cleaning staff, cooks, minor administrators, all the people dedicated to maintaining the castle’s basic functions.

They threw themselves to the ground with hands raised, clearly terrified.

"Please!" begged an older woman, the kitchen administrator. "We didn’t choose this! We just work here!"

Selphira stopped, studying the faces surrounding her.

These people posed no threat, and harming them would serve no purpose while only damaging their own honor.

"They’re not combatants," she observed. "We leave the civilians out of this."

She left a small contingent to secure the civilians and continued with the bulk of her forces advancing deeper into the castle.

It wasn’t until they reached the narrower hallways, those that necessarily led toward the castle’s depths, that they found the true resistance.

The first sextuple appeared without warning.

A man who had been tall and elegant, but was now a grotesque fusion of six beasts that had transformed him into something barely recognizable as human.

His arms had elongated until they became muscular tentacles ending in claws, while his torso was covered by an exoskeleton that pulsed with purple energy.

"Welcome," he said with a voice that resonated with weird harmonics, "to your grave."

But Selphira wasted no time on words.

Her black turtle manifested completely, creating an armor of crystallized water that covered her entire body while launching a torrent of pure pressurized water toward the enemy.

The sextuple dodged with grace that defied its grotesque appearance, its tentacles propelling it along the corridor walls as if gravity were optional.

Following him they reached the blockade where more sextuples waited.

"They have a good tunnel formation!" Selphira shouted, immediately recognizing the problem they faced.

Selphira could face a sextuple with full Gold Rank beasts now that Ren had unlocked her more advanced fusion, but it wasn’t going to be an easy battle... 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

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