Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1273

Chapter 1273: Chapter 1273 - Taming the Old World - Shadow Dragons - Reinforcements - 6

The city was fighting a battle that grew more desperate with every passing minute.

Even Julius and Taro, who had arrived later and actively conserved their energy during the flight, were running on fumes now. There was simply no way to pace themselves against monsters of this caliber and volume.

Bringing down a single high-tier mutant demanded a massive, devastating strike, and just one of those high-octane spells carved a deep hollow into a defender’s mana reserves.

A dual fusion allowed them to hit significantly harder, yes, but those transformations operated on a strict countdown. That their mana-biological ticking clock pushed against them just as relentlessly as the endless tide of rotting flesh.

Strike after heavy strike, their mana pools evaporated. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

And inevitably, a few mutants began to slip through the cracks.

They reached the inner walls in the end. It wasn’t a massive or a catastrophic breach just yet, but enough horrors slipped past the vanguard to severely endanger the sections lacking a high-caliber fighter.

There were still pockets of great strength scattered across the defensive grid.

Like Ren’s parents who anchored their designated perimeter with huge, seemingly impenetrable water and wood barriers, while Isaac held his ground as a dual-fire powerhouse. Yet, they were merely isolated islands of stability along a defensive line that remained far too long for the exhausted army to properly cover.

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Over in Klein’s sector, the situation turned grim.

A Platinum 3 behemoth had broken through the line. Klein had pushed his body to the absolute brink trying to stall it. He fought with everything he had, buying the surrounding troops precious seconds across multiple city blocks. But his mana core finally ran dry, leaving him gasping and utterly drained at the worst possible moment...

He collapsed onto the shattered pavement with the gargantuan mutant looming directly over him, its jaws parting to consume him whole.

And standing right there in that doomed sector, purely due to a ridiculous administrative accident, was Finch.

The aging accountant had bumped into Klein earlier purely for territorial bookkeeping purposes. He had been meticulously auditing the sector’s supply inventories right before the official order to retreat to the inner city was broadcasted days ago. When the chaos erupted, Finch had simply stayed put, getting swept up and trapped in the quarantine zone alongside Klein’s working group.

Finch was not a fighter... He heavily dramatized that exact role in his daily jokes, but it was the undeniable truth. He was a man of ledgers and ink, the kind of person who stared down a mismatched financial column with far more steely determination than he would ever point a sword.

His contracted fungal spore had eventually reached the Gold rank, allowing him to link with a third beast, a very unimposing messenger bird. Officially, that made him a triple Tamer, but even that miraculous upgrade had not transformed him into a warrior.

The golden networks of mana-hyphae rapidly intertwined, mimicking the exact same communal structure Ren utilized.

Finch nervously adjusted his spectacles, the thick lenses magnifying his eyes into two moons of polite terror. "A glorified bookkeeper and his rodent assistant fighting in a siege... Theodore, the universe has a remarkably poor sense of humor."

Yet, despite his endless complaining, he never stopped moving his feet. Because giving in to panic was one thing, but letting a foolish, brave kid die right in front of his nose was an entirely different ledger entry.

The network finally locked into Finch and Theodore’s central node... It flared to life, expanding rapidly and glowing with the specific, golden frequency that directly countered Selthia’s corruption.

That golden mana fundamentally interfered with the mutant’s tether to its external energy source, an effect that caused agonizing pain even to a Platinum-tier behemoth.

Theodore had launched himself from Finch’s shoulder with astonishing speed. Even if only having support beasts, he was a triple in the end... And because multiple minor tamers had linked together, their stacked enhancements easily pushed past the two hundred percent omniboost threshold, flooding the tiny beast with systemic power.

The moment the mouse’s tiny paw slapped against the monster’s hide, the giant mutant convulsed.

The freshly connected network didn’t kill the creature; they lacked the raw firepower for an execution. But it completely ruined the beast’s feeding cycle. The golden shockwave severed the flow of the corrupted runes sustaining its elemental mana feeding and some of its movement, making the gargantuan monster stagger backward its head just as it was about to snap Klein in half.