Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 527

Chapter 527: Chapter 527 - Taming the Fourth Year: The Weight of Success (Part 2)

The academy had been forced to negotiate a cap on his resource allocations to avoid extreme expenses, but fortunately, the Ashenway and Dravenholm families had given a subsidized amount to increase the limit.

Yet even this generosity paled compared to the income he generated through his written cultivation methods, sales of innovative items, and acquisition of incredibly high-quality resources.

Wei, the professor who had once publicly humiliated him, now worked as his personal editor and copyist. The irony wasn’t lost on either of them, but Wei had proven surprisingly skilled at refining Ren’s technical explanations and making them accessible to less advanced cultivators.

"Your understanding is extraordinary," Wei had admitted during one of their editing sessions, "but your explanations often are random or assume knowledge that most people simply don’t have. You need to remember what it was like before you knew everything."

Together they had produced over a hundred cultivation manuals that were sold to the kingdom for prices that would have made the Patinder family of some years ago weep with joy.

The millions of crystals he had accumulated represented real wealth... the kind of fortune that could change lives. But Ren intended to cultivate to high levels, and his mathematical skills were sufficient to know that these millions would disappear quickly once he began seeking more Gold-rank and higher resources for his fungus.

A certain banker would surely cry when he started making larger and larger withdrawals.

King Dragarion, in his final acts before the ultimate battle, had established a support fund of one million extra for Ren. It wasn’t enormous by royalty standards, but it provided a steady stream of resources that complemented his other income.

More significantly, it had granted him responsibilities in the former Goldcrest territory, lands confiscated after that family’s betrayal during the war.

Julius, now acting as King in all but official title (despite Victor theoretically having more responsibility), had wisely understood that both Ren and Zhao were at critical stages of their development.

Instead of burdening them with full administrative responsibilities, he had asked his brother Arturo to handle the territory’s management. While asking little of Ren and Zhao, who only provided ideas and strategies, gradually learning the political and economic aspects of governance while maintaining their focus on personal cultivation.

The lessons were fascinating but sobering. Governing wasn’t simply about making good decisions, it was about navigating competing interests, managing resources that were never sufficient, and making compromises that left everyone partially satisfied or more often than not... dissatisfied.

"Politics is like cultivation," Arturo had explained during one of their meetings, "except instead of improving yourself, you’re trying to improve systems that actively and often dumbly, resist change."

The former Goldcrest territory remained a source of political tension. Larissa’s original plan to dramatically restructure the nobility had lost momentum after the King’s loss. Without Dragarion to back aggressive reforms, and with Selphira in a state of grief that affected her political effectiveness, confronting the tens of thousands of high-level tamers who formed the opportunist factions had become impractical.

Julius had managed to implement some concessions and light punishments that were democratically supported, but the deeper reforms Larissa had envisioned remained a deferred dream.

The noble factions had lost power and influence, but remained what Julius described as "a hard bone to crack" without the crushing power of a Dragarion to intimidate them into submission.

These incomplete political changes were a constant reminder of the most painful absence of all.

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