Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1168

Chapter 1168: Chapter 1168 - Taming the Old World - Safeguarding Home - 3

Finally, the carriage slowed as it approached the bridge.

Looming directly ahead was a colossal gate. It was essentially a massive tunnel carved straight through the Great Wall, which now extended deep into the central city, effectively closing off the first half of the defensive circle.

Before passing through the shadow of the gate, Li looked out the windows one last time.

To his left, the royal castle pierced the clouds. It was the absolute seat of power, the beating heart that had violently reordered the world he grew up in. To his right, fading into the hazy distance, lay the Southern perimeter. His home... The exact spot on the Wall he would return to in two days.

He was only going to be gone for a little over one day.

Yet, a strange, hollow sensation settled in his stomach. This was the very first time he was actually leaving his city. It was the first time he was crossing the threshold into Yino, rather than just staring at its distant silhouette from the parapets.

The carriage rolled forward into the tunnel.

He sat with that weird vertigo for a moment looking at the insanely deep rift. It was also the feeling of crossing a border that had always just been an imaginary line drawn on a map, only to realize it was a very real place.

Li crossed the massive, multi-kilometer bridge spanning the divide, officially entering Yino.

His initial impression upon exiting the mirrored gate was surprisingly positive.

The immediate border zone, which historically had been a tense, heavily armed military checkpoint where two rival powers stared each other down with open suspicion, had completely transformed. It was now an explosive, chaotic bazaar specifically dedicated to trading local Yino materials.

Families that had been absolutely decimated during the horrific crystallization era, bloodlines that had lost every single Silver and Gold Tamer they possessed to the tragedy, were finally healing.

They walked the market proudly flanked by a brand-new generation of Gold Tamers. These were young kids who had received the exact same lifeline Ren had tossed to Yano. They even used the same Spore method, received the same financial backing, and climbed the same grueling ladder up to the Gold tier.

They didn’t boast even a third of the total military numbers Yano commanded. But it was enough...

It was more than enough for the vast majority of Yino’s surviving families to finally live comfortably. A reality that would have sounded like a naive fairy tale just some years ago.

However, as the carriage pushed past the bustling market and ventured deeper into the territory, the illusion of prosperity shattered. The contrast between the two cities became suffocating.

The further Li traveled from the bridge, the emptier the world became.

The second half of Yino was a ghost town. It was practically abandoned.

It looked infinitely worse than the Goldcrest slums of the old days. It looked worse than the dirt-poor outskirts where Li himself had starved as a child.

Row after row of hollow houses stared back at him with empty windows. Entire avenues lay untouched, buried under thick layers of unbroken dust. It was the absolute silence of a place that used to hold thousands of beating hearts, now reduced to nothing.

Logically, Li knew it was to be expected. Yino had lost a staggering percentage of its population to the crystallization. The survivors had naturally retreated inward, fleeing toward the bridge, clustering near Yano for the illusion of safety. They had permanently abandoned the remote districts that simply lacked the manpower to defend or populate.

Even knowing the history, witnessing it firsthand was a heavy blow.

It was one thing to read a report stating Yino was half-empty. It was an entirely different experience to ride a carriage through miles of dead streets, feeling the crushing weight of all that abandoned space.

Half of a massive city, permanently reduced to a rotting memory of itself.

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