Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 676

Chapter 676: Chapter 676 - Taming the Fifth Year: Realize - 2

Ren closed his eyes, remembering what he’d seen through the Mantis’s eyes in those final moments before destruction.

Two hollows, one filled with a pulsing crystal that glowed like a heart, the other empty and waiting. And Sirius’s chest with that hollow at half depth, incomplete somehow.

What was missing...

Ren recognized that system because he’d created one for the egg he’d given Luna.

The Celestial Tiger’s system.

Sirius’s Gold-rank beast was the one crystallized in the door. Not the Black Serpent.

That meant something. Had to mean something significant about the door’s requirements or Sirius’s situation.

Did the door need a Gold-rank beast in each hollow? Julius and Selphira had Gold beasts too, so maybe they hadn’t approached because they knew what would happen if they tried to open it?

All this had left Ren with more questions than answers...

Always more questions than solutions, the universe mocking his attempts at understanding.

Ren sighed, leaning against the building’s wall. The celebration inside continued, noise and laughter filtering through the windows. Everyone so happy about their victories while he...

While he’d just seen Luna’s father converted to crystal kilometers underground, frozen in eternal reaching toward something forever beyond his grasp.

He didn’t want to admit the adults were right. Hated admitting that maybe, just maybe, they’d been correct in warning him not to go. But in a certain way they were right, seeing Sirius like that, eternally reaching toward something he’d never manage to touch, was demoralizing in a way words couldn’t describe.

But Ren couldn’t give them credit completely. Since he’d already decided something some time ago. So knowing was fine anyway, because...

He clenched his fists.

He wasn’t going to give up.

If there was a way to reverse crystallization, he’d find it. It didn’t matter how long it took, didn’t matter what he had to learn or what obstacles he had to overcome. The path might be long, might be impossible by normal standards, but he’d walk it anyway.

Larissa and Luna deserved to have their fathers back.

And Ren would give them that despite everything, no matter how many years it might take him to achieve it.

The runes...

The thought arrived suddenly, a spark of hope in the middle of all the despair. Understanding crystallizing into possibility.

He’d managed that with the "simple key" he’d broken and then repaired, understanding it through careful study and feeling. And that process had given him certain insight about how these things worked.

The runes weren’t just decoration or mystical symbols without meaning, nor pretty patterns carved by ancient hands for aesthetic purposes.

They were mana routes.

Paths designed to direct energy in specific ways, channels that shaped raw power into intended effects. Each individual rune had a simple function, like the password in the key he’d repaired.

But combined, those simple functions created complex tasks through layered interaction.

Activation, illumination, door opening...

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