Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1229

Chapter 1229: Chapter 1229 - Taming the Old World - Lead - 8

Selphira turned her gaze toward the big window, looking slightly north of northwest, focusing on the exact geographical coordinate where Liora was currently deployed. Surely alive and safe... Standing right beside Ren in the most distant ruin.

At the very least, she had disciplined and educated this one with what appeared to be a sufficiently strict balance of love and reluctant but real scolding.

At the very least, she hadn’t lost this one yet...

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Miles away, buried deep beneath the earth within the final chamber of the first sanctuary, Ren’s strike force cautiously approached the two petrified figures.

The first statue, the moment Ren viewed it from the front, was undeniably Li. The rigid posture, the determined, frozen gesture of his hand still gripping the corrupted crystal. It was exactly the sacrifice they had anticipated.

The second statue stood silently beside him. It was older, the surface of the crystal heavily layered with the accumulated dust of years.

Ren stopped dead in his tracks directly in front of it.

And he felt the oxygen vanish from the chamber, or perhaps it vanished entirely from his lungs; he couldn’t discern which.

Because the second statue possessed a face he recognized with terrifying clarity. Not because he had ever met this specific woman in person. But because he had intimately studied those exact features on a younger face, very often for the past years, and countless times over the past week.

It looked absolutely, undeniably identical to Liora...

Ren turned to look at Liora.

He quickly realized he wasn’t the only one; every single member of the strike force was staring at her, one by one. They were all searching her face for the dramatic reaction the scene seemingly demanded: a petrified figure bearing her exact likeness, ancient and clouded by maybe decades of dust, standing right in the middle of a sanctuary where absolutely no one else should be but Li.

But Liora did not react the way any of them anticipated.

She simply stared at the statue...

Then, something subtle shifted behind her eyes, a fleeting flash of comprehension, as if she had just tied off a loose end she hadn’t previously understood.

Then again, instead of the tears or frantic questions everyone expected, she calmly turned back to Ren.

"Store the statues away," she instructed. "We need to hurry and inspect the threshold... We have to go out as soon as we can, and there are still some dragons out there that need to be eliminated."

Ren went entirely rigid.

His mind began to spin out of control, aggressively overanalyzing every single variable: the ancient statue, the impossible resemblance, Liora’s chilling silence, and the weird way she hadn’t asked a single question. There were far too many jagged pieces on the board, and absolutely none of them fit together cleanly.

Ren possessed a notorious habit of refusing to let go of a puzzle until he had completely solved it.

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