Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1232

Chapter 1232: Chapter 1232 - Taming the Old World - Engineered Doubt

The flow of data abruptly ceased, leaving Ren standing completely frozen before the ancient panel. His right hand remained perfectly slotted within the human-shaped indentation, while the suffocating, heavy silence of the subterranean chamber pressed firmly against his ears.

The rest of the strike force was simply staring at him, having heard absolutely nothing of the cosmic transmission. To their perspective, their Glorious General had merely placed his palm against the metal and stood perfectly motionless for an agonizingly long minute.

"Ren?" Luna took a cautious step forward, breaking the quiet. "What happened? What did you see in there?"

Ren did not formulate an immediate reply.

His mind was frantically processing the phantom echoes of a man who had recorded a desperate broadcast who knows how many eras ago. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

An ancient ’engineer’ whom the corruption spat out as ’the traitor’ with absolute malice in every syllable.

A man who, in the final message he would ever leave for the future, had playfully faked an epic narrator’s voice purely for his own amusement, had affectionately dubbed Ren a lucky bastard, and had asked, with a surprising, almost shy vulnerability, that he please try not to die.

This eccentric, colloquial persona was absolutely not how Ren had envisioned the seemingly omnipotent architect of the ruins’ unbreakable system.

That mythical creator was infinitely more... human.

And that entirely relatable man had just delivered two catastrophic pieces of intelligence that fundamentally rewrote the entire board. First, his golden spore mushroom, his brilliant Mooshito, his most intimate lifelong companion, possessed the latent capacity to turn against him under the wrong conditions. Second, the true enemy was never solely Selthia.

The ultimate threat was genuinely the ancient purple entity that had originally manufactured her, and presumably, the rest of the sovereign dragons as well.

"Ren..." Luna spoke again, her tone noticeably softer, anchoring him back to the physical world. "Talk to us..."

Ren slowly extracted his hand from the metallic indentation, letting his arm drop to his side.

"We need to reach the third vault," he stated in a low, measured whisper. "And I have something monumental to share with all of you... But not here."

He tilted his head upward, gazing toward the cavern ceiling, looking straight through the bedrock toward a surface world where in a monolithic star-prison a monster was currently clawing its way to freedom, and where the final two dragon elements were still waiting to be claimed.

"When we are completely secure," he added, forcing a reassuring calm into his voice. "I will tell you everything, I promise."

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Ren swiftly removed the pulsating green core from the secondary receptacle, and the small doorway concealing the terminal window smoothly slid shut, sealing with a heavy click.

It would be a massive tactical error to leave the window and the data node exposed. If the sprawling network of corruption managed to establish a link to this window it would gain more size, complexity and power... And if Selthia actively utilized her subterranean resources to snoop through the forgotten corners of this sanctuary exactly as Ren had just done, she could potentially intercept the engineer’s encrypted warning.

"Although, it is highly probable she already knows," he thought grimly. "Or perhaps she uncovered the matching data packet on the Yino side, considering her faction had already secured the seven elemental crystals years ago..."

"But the engineer explicitly stated that I merely need to avoid feeding him that specific potion, right?" The ancient architect had been incredibly precise with his terminology; the Seed Fusion Potion was the trigger. "And the colossal artifact, that synthetic ’mecha’ shell, is likely something I cannot ’pilot’ to my advantage anyway, so it makes perfect tactical sense to avoid constructing it until I completely comprehend its architecture."

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