Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1283

Chapter 1283: Chapter 1283 - Taming the Old World - Shadow Dragons - Last Front - 8

Against the worst odds, the expected army was not there...

And not wanting to waste the opportunity Sirius and Liu moved forward at a fast pace.

They did encounter a handful of straggling mid-tier Platinums on the way out, which proved difficult enough given their exhaustion, but it was nowhere near the apocalyptic swarm they had anticipated. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

The path back to the surface was eerily clear.

Sirius understood the battlefield geometry first. A quiet, heavy pride bled into his tired voice.

"They are still outside," he said, gesturing toward the distant exit. "They failed to secure the dragon’s core, but they did not give up on us... They held the line. They stopped the swarm from flooding the mountain until the last possible second. That is very likely why this tunnel is empty, they have been guarding our backs this entire time."

They forced their aching legs to sprint faster. An empty tunnel meant their allies were fighting a suicidal holding action on the surface. It meant the Vanguard outside was likely in a far worse state than they were.

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On the surface, the human resistance was indeed at its breaking point...

Lin and Zhao were the final two standing fighters, both teetering on the edge of collapse. They had flatly refused Mayo’s frantic attempts to evacuate them. The mere concept of abandoning their former student to be swallowed by the mountain was unacceptable.

Liu was their responsibility.

They had trained him, and they refused to leave him behind, regardless of the impossible odds.

They were not the only stubborn veterans on the field. Yang, completely stripped of his protective armor, was pushing himself off Mayo’s bird, his muscles trembling as he tried to stand without a single drop of mana in his core. The academy directors were doing the same, dragging themselves upright, preparing to throw themselves down, to fall from the sky and back into the meat grinder even though their tanks were empty.

They all shared the exact same conviction. Their student was trapped in the mountain, and none of them would retreat until he walked out, that was their pride as educators.

High above Lin, Zhao unleashed his final volley of feathers.

He watched them strike the massive, stitched-together shadow dragon mutant about to breath on top of Lin who was guarding the entrance. It did cancel the attack but he couldn’t avoid noting how the projectiles lacked their previous piercing power.

His output was fading fast... So he made the only choice left. Flying on sheer willpower, he positioned himself directly behind the towering abomination. He recalled his feathers one last time, summoning them back through the beast’s neck.

The razor-sharp projectiles tore through the mutant from front to back, making the attack explode and inflicting massive internal damage. That specific, perfectly timed strike staggered the behemoth, saving Lin from a crushing blow that would have ground her into the foothills of the crystal mountain.

But that maneuver drained the very last drop of his ether.

Zhao’s core went dark... His winged fusion dissolved mid-air, and he plummeted from the sky like a stone.

Lin was left standing entirely alone before the cavern entrance. The mutant dragon was still recovering but hundreds of platinum mutants still wanted to enter.