Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1078

Chapter 1078: Chapter 1078 - Taming the Wall - True Ruins

Mayo touched down right behind Liora. Her face was a complex mask of relief and lingering shock, the expression of a tamer that can’t be fun when she’s still processing the sheer scale of the mission they had just survived.

The sharp, rhythmic sound of destruction echoing from the upper stairs had ceased.

Lin emerged, followed closely by Shizu and the rest of their squad.

Lin stopped and met Ren’s eyes. Her posture was impeccably straight. Her expression was cool, collected, radiating an aura of absolute control. To anyone else, she looked completely untouched by the battle.

But Ren knew her too well.

The exhaustion of using her own fusion was there, hidden in the small details. He saw it in the way she shifted a fraction more of her weight onto her left foot. He noticed the split-second delay between her eyes tracking the room and her mind formulating the words.

"The upper chambers are disabled," Lin stated, her voice crisp.

"Good," Ren replied.

He accepted the report with the exact same brevity she used to deliver it.

Ren let his gaze sweep over his assembled group. They were battered. Their breathing was heavy. They were undeniably tired.

But they weren’t out of commission. They weren’t broken, and they were nowhere near the state where pushing forward would be irresponsible.

Ren mentally sifted through the information Selphira had shared about the guardians...

In this specific branch of the ruins, they would be facing elemental constructs of wind and earth. He had a strong suspicion they wouldn’t pack nearly the same catastrophic punch as the entities of light and darkness.

He also considered what he knew about the door systems distributed throughout these ruins. Then, he looked down at his hand.

Sirius’s core rested heavily in his palm. Leaving it in its current, half-corrupted state for longer than necessary felt like a ticking clock.

He pushed his mana into it, attempting to continue the purification process manually. The resistance was immediate and viscous. Pulling the corrupted energy out and cycling pure wind mana back in was a grueling task without the door’s ancient mechanisms to stabilize the crystal’s form and without being inside it in energy form to absorb the stuff easier in him.

The corruption clung to the core, fighting back and not wanting to change from crystal to energy. It was going to be a slow, agonizingly complex process, one he would have to manage passively while they fought their way down.

If they decided to go down...

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"We keep moving," Ren finally announced.

No one raised an objection. Except for Mayo.

"Just one question," Mayo said. She used that specific, dry tone she reserved for when she already knew the answer, but needed it stated out loud for the official record. "If the lunatic with a sudden fixation on you decides to come back, is the plan really to let her trap us in a stairwell where we can barely fit one person at a time?"

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