Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1280

Chapter 1280: Chapter 1280 - Taming the Old World - Shadow Dragons - Last Front - 5

"Maximum efficiency," Sirius stressed. "Every single drop of mana counts. We move fast, we secure the prize, and we keep enough in the tank to carve our way out. If we run dry in here, it does not matter how far we make it. We will just be trapped in a tomb holding a ring that would still not be ours in the end."

Liu did not offer another verbal confirmation.

But his actions shifted immediately... He tightened his movements, rationing his sonic pulses with extreme prejudice. He only unleashed his power when a barrier absolutely required it, hoarding every possible reserve for the exact nightmare Sirius had just described.

The two men pushed deeper into the dark of the southern ruin. Behind them, the corrupted swarm shrieked and tore itself apart to close the gap. Their internal mana clocks ticked down just as relentlessly as the encroaching tide.

Ahead of them waited the ultimate prize.

Behind them, a sealed door and a hungry army.

And caught between the two, two commanders calculated every breath, every spell, and every fleeting second, determined to pull off the impossible without wasting a single spark of energy.

So Sirius executed the identical strategy repeatedly...

Every time the rushing tide of corruption threatened to swallow them in the dark, he turned. Utilizing his most mana-efficient techniques, short-range shadow jumps and concentrated claws of light, he severed the legs and arms of the leading monsters.

He created grisly, thrashing bottlenecks, meticulously hoarding the vast majority of his core reserves for the true extraction.

The strategy was working flawlessly. Beast after beast, corridor after corridor, the two commanders carved a path toward the final trial chamber protecting the elemental ring.

But just as the finish line came into view, the entire dynamic shattered.

Sirius spun around to deliver another surgical strike, only to find himself staring straight up at a Diamond-tier mutant.

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This apex predator had not come into the mountain from the outside. It had been manufactured right here in the tunnel, and Sirius himself was almost entirely responsible for his existence.

The gruesome barricades Sirius had been leaving behind, the crippled, mutilated Platinums thrashing in the dirt, had been consumed by a single monster dragging itself at the very rear of the pack that had realized the feast was free.

Gorging itself on the crippled bodies Sirius generously provided and inside a high mana ambient like the inside of a Diamont rank crystal mountain, this single mutant had forcefully cannibalized its way up the evolutionary ladder. It absorbed the staggering biomass of its fallen kin, inflating its power until it finally breached the Diamond rank.

Sirius’s brilliant delaying tactic had essentially spoon-fed a titan.

And right now, that newly birthed Diamond was breathing down Liu’s neck.

Sirius launched himself backward, moving with the fluid confidence of a man who had successfully butchered dozens of monsters today.

He discovered, in a fraction of a second, that this creature operated on an entirely different scale.

He couldn’t even slow it down. Even with his double fusion beasts kept inside his core and system pushed to its absolute maximum output, Sirius’s claws of solid light barely managed to scratch the Diamond’s hyper-dense carapace.

And what little damage he did inflict knitted itself back together almost instantaneously.

Sirius was already exhausted... He had been fighting without pause for a while. He had dueled the Shadow Guardian, held the line against the corrupted tide, and navigated this lethal ruin. His core was aching, and his fusion was beginning to flicker under the relentless strain.

Severing the limbs of a peak Platinum 3 had already been a grueling chore. A Diamond was a completely different species of nightmare.