Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 530

Chapter 530: Chapter 530 - Taming the Fourth Year: Isolation - 2

The cultivation methods Ren had made public had completely revolutionized the landscape.

Techniques that were once reserved for the wealthiest elite were now improved and available to anyone. Processes that traditionally took nearly double the time now completed in less time and with fewer resources.

Most importantly, the methods eliminated much of the risk and uncertainty that had made advanced cultivation a privilege of the politically connected.

For common people, this had been a blessing. Families who had never dreamed of having members reach Silver 1 now watched their children progress toward those ranks with relative ease.

The social transformation was profound. Where once magical power had been primarily inherited through bloodlines and wealth, now it could be achieved through dedication and study. The rigid caste system that had defined their society for centuries was beginning to crack under the pressure of ’democratized advancement’.

But for Leopold and others like him, it had been a disaster.

His status as a "prodigy" had evaporated overnight when dozens of students began reaching the same ranks he had considered achievements, but in much shorter timeframes.

Worse still, these new methods made his family’s "secret" techniques seem obsolete and inefficient by comparison. Cultivation knowledge that had been passed down through generations of Montclaire ancestors was suddenly inferior to freely available manuals written by a fourteen-year-old.

And the most terrible thing: Ren had told him years ago that his cultivation method was wrong...

How dare he?!

The memory still burned. Leopold could recall every detail of that conversation... Ren’s casual tone, the way he had dismissed centuries of noble breeding knowledge as if it were amateur fumbling. The audacity of a boy with the weakest possible beast lecturing someone from one of the kingdom’s distinguished bloodlines.

In his desperation to maintain his advantage, Leopold had committed the mistake that had ruined everything.

He had attempted to "improve" one of the public methods from the academy library.

It wasn’t an uncommon practice. For generations, advances in cultivation had come from ambitious tamers who took known techniques and modified them slightly, hoping to discover more effective cultivation routes. Selphira and Dragarion were legendary examples of experimenters who had been lucky and achieved spectacular success with their wild modifications.

The stories of their breakthroughs were academy legend. Selphira’s development of intricate advanced water mana crystallization techniques had made her one of the kingdom’s most formidable tamers. Dragarion’s innovations in amounts of pure vein energy channeling had elevated him to near-mythical status.

But for every success story like theirs, there were thousands of cases where modifications led to disaster.

Leopold had added what he thought was a minor improvement to the cultivation method for surpassing its Gold 1 cap, but instead had gotten stuck at Silver 3... a small alteration in the crystal absorption sequence that, according to him, should theoretically have accelerated the process.

Instead, it had permanently ruined his Cockatrice’s development.

The irony was that Ren hadn’t warned him about the school method needing changes, but about his own tendency to not follow even that "mediocre method" at least correctly.

Leopold vividly remembered being annoyed by that "ridiculous" warning at the time, considering it excessively rude and having been about to hit the foolish boy if not for Lin’s intervention.

Now he remembered it with biting bitterness and regretted not having hit the boy quickly to extract information from him.

Little did he know that it wouldn’t have gone as he thought, even at that point in Ren’s development...

But there was something more consuming him: the conviction that Ren knew more than he was sharing publicly.

The numbers simply didn’t add up.

According to public information, the spore developed with Ren’s new method provided modest but growing increases to more and more characteristics: 10%, 20%, and 30% up to Bronze 2, then 50%, 65%, and 80% at Silver 3. Ren had indicated he expected to achieve a 100% omniboost when he reached Gold 1.

Compared to what his Cockatrice would have provided at the same rank (350% in its main attribute and 210% omniboost), Ren’s spore seemed decidedly inferior. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

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