Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1048

Chapter 1048: Chapter 1048 - Taming the Wall - 4

The veterans had been noticing it.

They mentioned it among themselves with the calm of people who had seen enough variations that one more didn’t change their disposition, but who didn’t ignore it either, because ignoring it would have been ignoring precisely the type of information the wall required not be ignored. How many they eliminated. How many arrived afterward. The balance was never clearly positive on the extermination side.

The numbers didn’t appear to deplete... If anything, the opposite.

Dunn had said it on the second night, in the same tone he had used for the wind at position seventeen: "Their numbers don’t seem to exhaust themselves. If anything..."

He hadn’t finished the sentence and yet it was the most precise description available.

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The first afternoon with real activity arrived almost at the end of the first week.

Ren had received the suggestion to keep a low profile for as long as the situation didn’t escalate, the opposite of the instruction they gave all new arrivals with unverified capability levels for the sector, and had decided that following it was also the most efficient way to see how the wall functioned from inside the structure rather than above it.

You learned different things depending on where you stood relative to the system.

So he observed.

What he saw was different from what he would have seen years ago. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

The beasts of the tamers emerging from the gaps in the middle section of the wall were plants, frogs, and creatures that the still-official-but-already-aging bestiarium classified as "common", the most frequent bonds in the general population, the ones that had been available to most people for most of Yano’s history, the standard issue of a city that hadn’t always had better options.

But the levels at which they were operating were not the levels that classification would have predicted years ago.

High Silver... Several Golds in some parts of the wall, among those who had been there less time and had continued cultivating using Ren’s methods, the ones that had been spreading through the population the way useful things spread when there was no reason to keep them contained.

Beasts that in any previous generation would routinely have never surpassed Bronze were operating at ranks that the older cultivation systems would have described as impossible for that type of bond.

The ceiling had moved.

The effect on the wall was immediate and concrete.

Defending from height, the tamers launched their beasts or projected their attacks downward through the angle the structure provided, and what arrived at the equivalent-rank mutant creatures from that elevation, with that density of combined fire, was fundamentally different from the kind of defense the wall could have generated with the same number of people years earlier.

The math of a higher average baseline multiplied by the positional advantage of the structure, compounding into something the enemy side of the equation hadn’t fully adjusted to yet.

The Silver-rank mutant creatures that managed to reach the base of the wall didn’t have enough time to assess how to climb before the attacks reached them.

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