Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 641

Chapter 641: Chapter 641 - Taming the Fifth Year - New Hope

"I see." Baelthon leaned back again, speaking now in a normal voice as if they’d been discussing the weather instead of some secret plan. "Then it could even serve you with your current situation. Distracting the boy a lot could be just what you need for him to have the possibility of failing at least one exam in the next trimester."

"It’s..." Aldric processed the idea, his political gears turning again after the paralysis. "Risky. If he gets upset by any chance..."

"Everything is risky in politics," Baelthon responded with the ’wisdom’ of someone who’d survived decades of noble intrigue. "Even staying still affected us greatly, right? But this... this attacks something his brute power can’t solve. His supposed mana control, his apparent genius for battle and beasts if they’re real... none of that helps him when it comes to adolescent emotional navigation. Even if he turns out to be a genius, he can’t possibly have had the time to be one at everything, right?"

He paused, letting that settle...

"And if it works, if it really distracts him enough, then he doesn’t just fail one exam. He becomes vulnerable. Predictable. Manipulable in ways he isn’t when he’s focused, like any man."

The implications hung heavy in the air. Everyone had weaknesses. Historically even geniuses. Especially when it came to matters of the heart.

Aldric looked at the papers scattered on his desk. The inadequate lesson plans. The useless notes about protocols Ren clearly already mastered. Evidence of his failure, his miscalculation.

Then he looked at Baelthon, weighing options, calculating risks and rewards with the instinct of someone who’d spent a lifetime in political warfare.

"What do you need from me specifically?"

Baelthon’s smile widened, satisfaction evident in the curve of his lips. "For now, just continue being his tutor. Act... humble, maybe. Like you’ve learned your lesson about underestimating him or something."

"And then?"

"And then," Baelthon stood, heading toward the door with the unhurried pace of someone whose plan was already in motion, "present it to him as a ’prize’. So when the appropriate moment arrives, we introduce the catalyst element. To capture his attention in ways power and politics cannot."

He stopped at the threshold, looking back over his shoulder. The light from the hallway cast his face in shadow, making his expression unreadable.

"After all, even geniuses are fools when it comes to matters of the heart. And teenagers... well, in matters of the heart, teenagers are the biggest fools of all."

And with that, he left, leaving Aldric alone with his thoughts and a new strategy that finally gave him some hope.

Maybe he couldn’t control Ren’s power.

Maybe he couldn’t manipulate his intellect.

But emotions...

Emotions were completely different territory. The kind of battlefield where intelligence and power could mean nothing, where the strongest could be brought low by the simplest weakness.

And everyone had vulnerabilities there. Everyone made mistakes when their heart was involved.

Surely... Even Ren Patinder.

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The days after the exams passed in a strangely pleasant calm.

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