Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 542

Chapter 542: Chapter 542 - Taming the Fourth Year: Isolation - Emptiness

The sudden absence of agony was so dramatic it almost caused him a different kind of shock. For the first time in what felt like hours, he could think clearly.

But the silence in his mind, where the fungus’s voice had always been a constant presence, was deafening. For the first time in years, he was truly alone in his own consciousness.

Julius immediately noticed the change.

"Are you okay?" he shouted while launching another devastating attack toward the giant chimera.

"Yes," Ren replied, though his voice sounded hollow.

The giant creature became enraged when it realized its sonic pulse no longer had effect. Its multiple heads roared with frustration, and it began preparing for a more direct attack.

But just as it launched toward them, reinforcements arrived. The bird had managed to reach the surface through the tunnel Julius had left without being eliminated by any beast.

Ren’s guard girls emerged from the upper tunnels, bringing with them Selphira and a dozen soldiers specialized in underground combat.

Selphira assessed the situation in seconds and helped Julius keep the beasts at bay.

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"Retreat!" Selphira ordered when they realized after a while that they were in a very similar situation to what they had experienced in Yino’s chamber that day.

As long as small chimeras kept arriving, reaching the large one would be impossible, and from the numbers they could sense in the vicinity, these monsters hadn’t wasted time during the past few years.

Selphira led the retreat, beginning to create massive ice structures that blocked the chimeras’ advance. "We can’t keep fighting on their terrain!"

The escape was slow but coordinated. Earth soldiers also worked to seal tunnels behind them and around the ice reinforcing structures to make them difficult to navigate.

But the monsters followed them, a tide of changing forms that constantly adapted to overcome every obstacle they put in their path.

Finally, at 300 meters depth, dozens more soldiers joined, and they managed to create a combined barrier of reinforced rock, living mineral, and ice strong enough to temporarily stop the advance.

They used tunnels from new excavations to move and reinforce the structure over a considerable area, creating a defensive line that could last long enough to organize a more comprehensive response.

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The following days were chaos of citywide military coordination.

A joint effort was organized involving thousands of guards, soldiers specialized in earth manipulation, and even civilian volunteers with Silver Rank or higher beasts. The underground barrier was reinforced until it became a true fortress, with multiple defensive layers and early warning systems, like a wall but plate-shaped and beneath the city.

The common wall between the two cities ended up providing two-thirds of its military population for the effort, but the tens of thousands of mutant beasts were successfully contained.

During all this time, Ren moved as if in a dream. The absence of his fungus left him feeling as if he had lost a crucial sense. The voices and sensations that had accompanied him for just over three years had disappeared, replaced by a silence that was almost physically painful.

He didn’t know if the encystment was permanent or temporary. He didn’t know if he would ever again hear the voice that had been his most constant companion during the most formative years of his life.

All he knew was that the sacrifice had been necessary only because of his faults.

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The loss wasn’t just devastating for Ren’s depression... It was also devastating for his power.

He could no longer sense mana flow with the same intensity as before. Patterns that had once been as clear as written words were now barely whispers in the distance.

All the knowledge that had been at the reach of his thoughts, the instant comprehensions about beasts and cultivation techniques, the perceptions that had made him a ’prodigy’... everything had disappeared.

He only had what he had consciously learned, what he had memorized and practiced until it became a personal knowledge. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

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