Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 540

Chapter 540: Chapter 540 - Taming the Fourth Year: Discovery - 2

There was something in Ren’s tone that didn’t admit arguments. Julius immediately activated his concealment artifact, feeling his mana presence suppressed to barely detectable levels.

Ren did the same, and suddenly both became practically invisible to most forms of magical detection.

The effect was rapid.

Within minutes, more small beasts began passing near them, no longer avoiding their enormous power signature. Hunter beetles, lesser worms and small mimic insects moving through the ground. All low-level creatures...

But they weren’t alone.

Something was following them.

It was subtle at first, barely perceptible even with both their enhanced senses. A disturbance in mana patterns, a pressure moving through the area like an invisible underwater current.

Could there be beasts capable of hiding their mana presence?

The small creatures moved in patterns that weren’t entirely random. There was direction in their movement, a purpose suggesting they were being directed or influenced by something larger.

"Do you feel it?" Ren whispered, his voice barely audible.

Julius nodded tensely. What he was sensing wasn’t exactly hostile toward them, but it didn’t feel benevolent either.

Another hunter bug emerged directly a few meters from their feet, so close that Julius had to make a conscious effort not to react. The creature moved with clear panic, its movements becoming more erratic as something invisible approached.

They waited.

The predator emerged from behind one of the largest statues, and Julius felt his blood turn cold.

It was a creature Ren had described before, but seeing it in person was completely different. Approximately the size of any Silver Rank beast, but with anatomy that defied easy categorization. Long with parts from various types of beasts, all amalgamated into a combination that should have been impossible but somehow worked.

A chimera.

The creature was a living violation of natural law. Multiple heads that shouldn’t function together, limbs that belonged to different species, organs visible through translucent skin that pulsed with fast rhythms.

Julius reacted instinctively, using his earth control to create a cage of dense minerals around the creature before it could escape. The chimera writhed and struggled against its confines, but the prison walls seemed too dense for the abomination’s power level to escape.

"It’s almost the same form," Ren murmured, approaching cautiously toward the trapped creature. "The same species I faced that day when I fell into the hole with Han."

The chimera looked at him with eyes that showed an intelligence that was unsettling. It wasn’t the blank stare of an animal driven by instinct; there was recognition there.

But then it began doing something with its long antennae that made both of them tense.

A sound that wasn’t exactly vocalization, not exactly telepathy, but something between both. It was as if it were sending a signal, a call that resonated not through the air but through the underground mana network.

"It’s calling others," Julius realized with growing alarm.

Ren nodded grimly. "And from the way the energies are changing... I think many are responding to it."

The mana signatures they had been detecting, subtle and dispersed, suddenly became more focused. More numerous. As if hundreds, perhaps thousands of creatures were converging on their location.

"Julius," Ren said quietly, "I think we’ve found why low-level creatures aren’t migrating upward."

Julius looked at the trapped chimera, then at the growing mana signatures approaching from all directions.

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