Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1008

Chapter 1008: Chapter 1008 - Taming Crystals

Any mana crystal was accumulated energy that had transitioned into behaving as a solid, and affected the surrounding mana system by fusing with the tissue as well.

That was all it was.

And what became solid after being fluid, given the right conditions of density and frequency, could, in theory, have those conditions reversed. If someone knew precisely which conditions to modify and in which order.

In theory.

The practical side was where the actual problems lived.

The first order of work was analyzing whether the solidification process caused damage to the transformed tissue, and whether reversing it would cause additional damage. Two different questions, and no one knew if the answer to the second one didn’t follow automatically from the answer to the first.

Beyond that, the available tools were also limited. Beasts with mana absorption capacity were the most direct instrument, but that absorption came packaged with a complication, because a tamer’s mana system and their physical vitality were intertwined in ways that weren’t easily separated.

The mana and the body were two systems mostly occupying the same space. One system expressing itself in two registers... and pulling one without disturbing the other required understanding and precision that just parts of beasts with absorption capacity simply didn’t have. Evolutionarily didn’t even need.

Why take just one if taking more is easier? Maximum parsimony.

Then there was the scarcity problem.

The ranks where absorption existed in the form Ren needed were specific to a narrow set of beasts, and in certain ecosystems those beasts lost the ability in intermediate ranges before recovering it at higher ones, or didn’t recover it at all.

Several Silver-tier beasts had it. From Gold upward the situation became significantly more complicated and rare. Certain ranges of high Gold and Platinum lost the capacity before recovering it at high Platinum or Diamond, and at those levels the force involved was too great for the precision this kind of work would require.

The window was narrow and the beasts inside it were not common.

Zhao had been a Gold rank crystalisation problem, Julius and Arturo around high Gold and low Platinum, Selphira and Victor were maybe a mid Platinum rank problem, Sirius high Platinum and maybe Dragarion was somewhere in Diamond.

All different so some of them didn’t have any option in their rank...

But the most fundamental problem was that absorbing crystallization wasn’t the same thing as reversing it. Not remotely.

What Zhao who had accumulated small crystal fragments in his system needed, was one thing, essentially extracting what had become a foreign object, repairing the damage it left behind, and allowing the tissue to recover over time with healer support and careful management. Tedious. Potentially dangerous if any crystal was too big or positioned badly.

But the kind of problem that had a ’normal’ surgical path through it.

Arturo and Julius had been the intermediate cases, closer to Zhao’s situation in principle even if more severe in degree. So as a warmup they were good for Ren.

But when the damage was at Selphira’s level, or Victor’s, or beyond...

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