Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 538

Chapter 538 -538 – Taming the Fourth Year: Isolation – 10

But even through his exhaustion and relief, Ren couldn’t help feeling a stab of irritation at needing rescue at all.

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Julius observed the Shadow Mimic exhaling its last breath of life, pierced through by stakes made of his overwhelming earth elemental control. With 750% base control, (a level Ren could reach with his maximum fusion tripling his base 250%) Julius had a strong specialized element.

But it wasn’t his base control that Julius had used. When he fused completely, his numbers tripled to 2250%, a power that turned the earth itself into an extension of his will.

The creature hadn’t had any chance whatsoever. The minerals had violently separated its body.

He turned toward Ren, who remained on the ground, breathing heavily, his energy reserves almost completely exhausted.

The expression on Julius’s face was complex: relief, annoyance, and something that could have been understanding.

But Ren’s expression…

“Did I do something wrong by saving you?” Julius asked, though his tone wasn’t completely critical.

Ren looked at him with an expression he himself wouldn’t understand, his features still showing some of the annoyance that someone as entitled as Jin would show to his rescuer, mixed with the confusion of someone who had expected to die moments before.

For a moment, Julius wondered if the boy would have preferred to face the consequences alone, if being rescued was somehow something terrible he couldn’t tolerate.

The reaction remained telling. Most would have been purely grateful for rescue from certain death. The fact that Ren’s face was showing irritation rather than relief spoke to how his priorities had shifted over recently.

But losing Ren wasn’t something the kingdom could afford. And beyond his real value, Julius had come to see the boy as something more. It remained complicated, but after everything they had been through together, after seeing how Ren had helped save not only the kingdom but also… the loss would have been personal.

“Thank you,” Ren finally murmured after shaking his head, accepting the hand Julius extended to help him stand.

Julius knew he needed to handle this carefully. Ren was clearly in a fragile mental state, having acted so differently from his normal behavior, and confronting him directly by scolding him for taking foolish risks would probably only result in more resistance. Instead, he decided to ask with as much delicacy as possible.

He had received the message, spoken with the girls, and while descending quickly had also heard the Leviathan Worm’s roar and followed the path of battles that Ren had left, so he knew more or less what the situation was.

“Can I ask why you decided to push yourself so far? Alone, bringing down everything you found in this territory that would even give me problems…”

Julius knew that in his specific element he had more power than Ren, but he wasn’t even close to having the same level of flexibility when taking into account the seven different elements, or the general increases as high as the boy possessed.

Julius’s physical strength reached 1350% in his complete fusion; Ren’s reached 2100%. And although Ren’s body, still too young, would put them in a similar range of physical capability, beasts weren’t affected by their tamer’s age.

That’s why Julius didn’t speak to him like a child, but as an equal. It was a conscious decision, also designed to soften Ren’s reluctance to dialogue.

The diplomatic approach was calculated. Julius had learned through years of political negotiation that people always responded better when they felt respected rather than patronized, especially people with significant power of their own.

Ren considered the question for several moments, his gaze lost in the depths that extended beyond.

“I wanted to reach the abyssal layer,” he said finally. “To analyze the corruption crystals. But… I accept that I fought too much on the way.”

It was a more honest admission than Julius had expected. He decided to feed Ren’s ego a little to keep him talking.

“It makes sense,” Julius nodded thoughtfully. “Even I pass through this layer hidden, avoiding unnecessary confrontations. Eliminating everything you see left and right is… well, exactly the kind of thing I see you just experienced.”

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