Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1286

Chapter 1286: Chapter 1286 - Taming the Old World - Compulsory Check

It was a steep price...

Selthia weighed the options with a cold, calculating logic she barely managed to sustain without her ancient advisor whispering in her ear.

She had the perfect incubators ready.

The recently emptied elemental mountains, boasting incredibly dense concentrations of ambient mana, served as ideal production nests. There were ten of these dormant volcanoes of power free, now bumped up to twelve thanks to the recent victories clearing out the guardians.

These were secure, highly rich spaces where the corruption could herd its surviving beasts and forcibly accelerate the cannibalization cycle. The concentrated ether would fatten the High-Platinums, pushing them past their natural limits until one finally breached the Diamond threshold.

Yet, the meat exchange was far from a clean trade.

Sacrificing ten elite Platinum 3 for a single Diamond 1 drastically altered her tactical flexibility. It wasted around 65% of the energy and severely compressed the overall power distribution of her swarm.

More importantly, it handed human powerhouses like Ren and Liora massive, glowing targets...

A Diamond mutant was incredibly resilient, devastatingly powerful, and massive in scale. However, that exact size made them distinct liabilities. They were rich, walking prizes of concentrated energy, visible from many more miles away. For a sniper of Ren’s caliber, a towering behemoth was significantly easier to track, isolate, and systematically eliminate than dozens of smaller, more agile threats scattered across a vast battlefield.

Selthia ran the arithmetic in her head, mirroring the exact calculations the ancient corruption would have instantly provided.

She currently commanded a swarm of around four hundred units. What would happen if she condensed that force down to forty, no, even fewer? Not every beast in her high ranks was a peak High-Platinum. Many were low or mid-tier, meaning it would take two to four of them just to replace a single high-tier sacrifice. Consequently, the actual number of Diamonds she could realistically produce was less than ten percent of her total Platinum count.

A sprawling tide of scattered beasts was incredibly difficult for the humans to sweep in a single stroke. Liora could effortlessly incinerate dead bodies, but burning hundreds of living, erratic targets moving across a wide perimeter was an entirely different logistical challenge.

Conversely, thirty to forty Diamond-tier titans represented a terrifying, concentrated force, but they were glaringly obvious targets. They were threats Ren could spot from the horizon, allowing him ample time to construct a flawless plan to dismantle them piece by piece.

Quantity versus quality... The eternal, unforgiving scale of war.

As she pondered the variables, Selthia realized she did not have to commit entirely to either extreme.

"Ten..." She murmured to herself, her voice echoing in the cold solitude of her crystal chamber. "Perhaps twenty. No, fifteen tops. Not more than fifteen..."

A Vanguard of ten to fifteen Diamond mutants would be a perfect addition to her arsenal. It would provide her with a devastating elite fist to deploy at strategic bottlenecks, all without draining the full volume of her remaining swarm.

"Yes, that way maybe they can eat faster and even kill the last Dragons faster too..."