Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1073

Chapter 1073: Chapter 1073 - Taming the Wall - 10th Chamber - Digi-Fight - 2

Ren didn’t attack again immediately.

He read the space instead, the same way he had read the corruption’s signature on the way in, looking for the logic behind how Selthia moved power here, looking for the seams.

"You’ll have to hit me with something considerably stronger than that," Selthia insisted. "Considerably... If you want anything to actually hurt me you need to bring something I can’t simply push back with what the field is giving me."

Ren didn’t respond.

He had used the attack as cover... The time it took to analyze how to reverse the flow, the time Selthia spent moving toward him, the exchange itself, all of it had been useful in a way the attack’s result wasn’t.

He now knew more about how to work against corruption in this space than he had known three minutes ago. He knew more about how to reverse it. He knew what to do with the crystal core to make the process of purifying corruption for Sirius clean rather than messy.

That knowledge was real and it was staying with him regardless of how the rest of this went.

He calculated.

He had found the reduction points, he had read the rune pattern, he had understood enough of the system to know how to reverse Sirius’s crystallization and what the nucleus needed for the process to hold rather than collapse.

All of that was solid in his mind now.

The problem was that Selthia’s preparation in this space was enormous. The exterior runes weren’t only amplification; they were a field advantage that made every exchange one where she had more than she should and he had less, and no matter how well Ren understood how to move against the corruption flow, moving against a flow that came from every wall simultaneously while the person directing it had Platinum-level power multiplied by the field was an equation that didn’t close well.

Not yet...

Selthia launched at him.

Between movements she kept talking, because Selthia was profoundly lonely and even in a fight she couldn’t stop herself from maintaining the interaction, the hope that Ren would engage back and give her something to respond to.

"You’ll need to bring something stronger if you want me to feel it," she kept moving, kept pushing.

Ren took a step back.

Then another.

His eyes moved while he retreated, not erratically but methodically, running an inventory of the space that he kept quiet enough not to be obvious from the front. The blue floor bleeding purple toward the margins, and the rate at which it was moving. The structures the system’s architecture formed at the edges of the space and what they could be used for. The flow patterns the corruption followed in transit, not random, because nothing in a designed system was random if you could read the design.

Something at the left edge caught his attention for a fraction of a second.

A point in the space’s structure where the pattern was slightly different, an irregularity that would have passed unnoticed without the context of the last several minutes spent learning what the pattern looked like when it was consistent. The discontinuity was small. Selthia didn’t catch it because Ren barely reacted and she was annoyed by his silence.

He kept retreating. Then he looked at her and gave her what she had been waiting for him to give her.

Attention... Simple verbal engagement.

Selthia noticed the shift immediately, and while she kept advancing, the pace dropped a degree. Just one.

"So?" Ren said, in the tone of someone starting a conversation without particular urgency.

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