Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 683

Chapter 683: Chapter 683 - Taming the Fifth Year - Readiness

The exams began with Ren fully confident despite everything changing, and there was a good reason for his extra confidence.

Throughout the entire semester, Ren had remained focused on understanding crystallization.

At first, Min, Taro, and Liu worried seeing him so distant. They’d find him at his desk at odd hours, surrounded by papers filled with symbols none of them recognized. He’d stop responding to questions mid-way as if his mind had gone somewhere else completely, lost in thoughts and theories they couldn’t understand.

"Think he’s okay?" Min had asked one night, looking toward where Ren was hunched over his desk with an intensity that bordered on unsettling.

"He’s just very concentrated," Taro had responded after a moment, recognizing something familiar in Ren’s posture. "I’ve seen him like this before when he’s working on something important, like the first time he prepared my crystals."

And he was right.

Soon they realized Ren wasn’t lost or depressed, wasn’t spiraling into something dark or destructive.

He was just hyper-focused, working on something that consumed his attention completely.

So they learned to let him work and give him space was the right answer this time again, understanding they’d always have training sessions with Lin and classes to talk to him if they needed. Respecting the boundaries of someone pursuing something with single-minded determination.

Everything had gone relatively well.

Despite the situation with Luna, who continued avoiding him with consistency that hurt more each day that passed.

Despite Klein, who’d completely changed his morning bath schedule to avoid encountering Ren there either.

Ren had decided to keep focusing on crystallization...

Also because he saw no point in talking to Luna when he’d feel uncomfortable not telling her what he knew about her father. If he was going to tell her something, it would be better to do it when he had at least good progress or already a solution, right?

That’s what he told himself.

Every day.

While writing runes he remembered from the caves and experimenting with their results, trying to decode secrets buried for centuries.

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The first weeks were frustrating.

The runes he’d memorized seemed simple when he saw them on ancient walls. But reproducing them and understanding what they really did, that was something else completely. Theory versus practice, observation versus comprehension.

The only way he could think of making those mana runes was gathering the smallest mana crystals together.

But joining them in the correct form proved more difficult than expected. The precision required was extraordinary, each placement critical to maintaining coherence.

After some attempts similar to when he’d repaired the simple artifact, trial and error teaching what theory couldn’t...

He succeeded.

The runes only made mana move. Slow in some cases, fast in others. Some made it spin, others directed it upward or downward. There were runes that slightly reduced flow and others that increased it.

The variables were quite numerous.

Too numerous.

There didn’t seem to be a language there. Yes a coherent system but not a simple intention Ren could decipher. There were only apparently random symbols that affected mana in specific but disconnected ways.

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