Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1164

Chapter 1164: Chapter 1164 - Taming the Old World - Scouting

A few hours earlier...

While Ren was quietly tracking the corrupted trail that would send him toward the Fire ring, Zhao was tearing through on his way to the deep zones of Yino.

Fused with his Raptor, his flight was an aerodynamic marvel. It was still entirely silent, but now possessing an immense, blistering speed that his old Owl could never hope to replicate.

He cut across the sky at an altitude and velocity that left the clouds swirling in his wake, moving faster than almost any other Tamer in the Vanguard could.

He didn’t dare approach the guardians directly. He observed them from the absolute edge of the horizon, prioritizing his safety and shaving hundreds of miles off his route. Relying on the enhanced eyesight granted by his now fusion enhanced Owl’s lineage, he peered through the atmospheric haze to check the Shadow Dragon on Yino’s side first.

Following the clockwise rotation, it was the closest and most resilient target on the map.

The Shadow Dragon was intact...

The sprawling dark clouds over its domain churned undisturbed. Zhao let out a slow, shaky breath, allowing his shoulders to drop a fraction of an inch. If the guardian of which same element Selthia was attacking on the other side of the fissure was still standing here, then maybe her assault on Yano’s Black Dragon didn’t mean she had a free pass in Yino.

Perhaps the board wasn’t tilting quite as drastically as Ren and him feared.

But a single surviving dragon didn’t clear the board yet. He pushed forward, diving deeper into the continent.

Then the next dragon in the rotation delivered the worst possible surprise.

And it did it with its absence...

♢♢♢♢

Yino’s Fire Guardian was gone.

Zhao hit the invisible brakes, coming to a dead halt in the freezing air. He stared down at the landscape, his mind struggling to process the sheer emptiness of the crater.

The geography was scarred by a colossal battle, but it lacked the sharp, bleeding edges of recent destruction. The combat felt old, perhaps a month or more. The shattered bedrock had settled. The volcanic vents that should have been spewing liquid fire were choked with cold, gray ash, and the deep scars in the earth were already mostly under that same ash.

There were no corpses... Nothing.

The mutant swarm had packed up and left a long time ago. They had undoubtedly cannibalized their own fallen troops before marching out, ensuring not a single drop of energy was wasted. They left absolutely no trace of the apocalyptic clash, save for the broken, silent earth.

The mountain itself was turned off.

Its elemental heartbeat had stopped.

The ring was gone.

A shard of pure ice slid down Zhao’s spine. He banked hard, pushing his Raptor fusion to its absolute limits, racing toward the next dragon. He prayed to every Dragon God he knew that this was an isolated incident. A single, tragic loss, not a pattern.

But the nightmare simply repeated itself.

Two rings... Empty.

Zhao’s face drained of all color, turning ashen pale.

♢♢♢♢

The third dragon, the Guardian of Water, presented a slightly different scene.

The destruction here was fresh. The battle over the coastal waters hadn’t ended that long ago. Down in the churning surf surrounding the great blue mountain, a swarm of mutants was actively feeding on the massive, submerged corpses.

The corrupted mutant beasts didn’t look comfortable in the ocean. The aquatic element and the shifting tides clashed awkwardly with their land-based biology. But the water here wasn’t weighed down by the crushing, magnified gravity of the deep dark zones, allowing them to paddle and thrash efficiently enough to strip the remaining bones clean.

Sadly...

The water mountain, just like the others, was dead.

Yino was the only territory in the known world with access to the sea. It was a massive coastline that swallowed a quarter of the continent, biting deep into the borders of both the Wind and Wood zones, affecting them.

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