Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1064

Chapter 1064: Chapter 1064 - Taming the Wall - Preemptive Strike - 10th Chamber - 2

The integration to the door was seamless, the boundary between the crystal and the ancient stone so perfect that distinguishing one from the other required the kind of attention Ren had trained specifically to apply.

It would be hard to take off. But first...

The corruption was consuming it from inside, slow and methodical.

The wind crystal that had been Sirius’s contribution to the door was becoming something else, and it had been becoming something else for long enough that nearly half the work was already done.

Ren looked at it for a long moment, reading everything the surface showed and what the deeper layers implied, calculating what the intervention would cost and what it would cost if he waited.

He had not come this far to wait.

Ren raised his hand to use elemental control at range.

If he could separate the core from the door before the corruption advanced further, if he could reverse even half of the damage that had already been done, if there was still enough of the original structure left to work with...

"No need to hurry... You’ve already won."

The voice came from behind them.

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Liora was on fire before she finished turning, the purplish spiritual flames jumping from her palms with the speed of a trained reflex, and what she found when she completed the turn was a figure with both arms raised in surrender, no visible hostility, wearing an expression that was somewhere between amused and tired and corresponded to none of the ways Liora had imagined this moment was going to look.

Selthia...

The white-haired figure, shifting subtly between what looked like a young girl and an adult woman like something that existed in a space while not entirely existing in it, the specific way her presence was present without being fully committed to the room it occupied.

"I only came to say hello in the spirit of peace," she said, "before you ruin all my work without my being able to offer any resistance."

"Not even a ten-year-old Ren would believe that," Mayo said from her position behind Liora, in the tone of someone who found the joke too easy to resist but wasn’t going to pretend it required effort.

Selthia laughed... Genuinely, the sound a real person made when something actually struck them as funny and they weren’t performing it, short and unguarded before it settled back into something more composed.

Then she sighed.

"The simple fact that you’re here this soon is already a catastrophe," she said, and now the register was different, the tone of someone doing the inventory of a plan that hadn’t resolved the way it was supposed to.

"No matter how much energy I accumulate, how much I anticipate, how much silence I maintain so nobody detects the movement, he always arrives at the worst possible moment." She looked at Ren with something that was almost exasperation but also a warmth longing, the kind that was more genuine for being out of character.

"I managed to acquire enough mutants to produce one with the capacity to project a crystal core here, which in itself is no small achievement, but the process of corrupting the nucleus that was already integrated into the door takes several days. Days I clearly didn’t have..." She tilted her head slightly. "You realized because the numbers dropped and they stopped attacking the city walls, didn’t you?"

Mayo looked at Liora.

Liora looked at Mayo.

"Why are you telling us this?" Liora said, the distrust in her voice clear enough that the question sounded like what it was, not a request for information but a challenge. "If you’ve already lost, simply leave."

"I’m feeling very lonely," Selthia said, as though that explained everything by itself. Then, with an expression of genuine irritation: "Also I’m too fat now and I can’t fit through the ninth chamber."

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