Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1287

Chapter 1287: Chapter 1287 - Taming the Old World - Compulsory Check - 2

Ren listened to the entire debriefing in quiet relief...

He was a bit sad but mostly thankful that the crisis he had been forced to miss by being in a different front had resolved itself with minimal casualties.

He wanted to believe Selphira’s words, "they were necessary" and "not your fault".

But couldn’t avoid wanting to be stronger to make even those unnecessary...

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The group finally descended into the excastle’s hill in Yino housing the star array. Ren stepped forward and pressed his palms flat against the massive, metallic like surface of the dome, preparing to weave his surplus energy into the huge prison.

But the moment his ether connected with the structure, he paused.

Something was wrong with the tunnel timeline.

The accumulated buffer of 5 days they had painstakingly built up to trap the purple dragon had depleted more than the standard erosion rate normally justified, there were close to only 3 days left.

Ren focused his senses, probing the thick layers of reinforced wood, metal and rock sealing the entity’s escape tunnel.

The side near the outer threshold was weirdly thin for just a bit longer than 1 and a half days. Like almost a full 2 had passed.

Only one answer...

The trapped entity was digging faster.

Ren furrowed his brow. He kept his hands pressed against the warm, vibrating metal, feeling the relentless, mechanical scraping echoing from deep within the earth. The rhythm had changed. The colossal machine trapped inside possessed more kinetic force than it had yesterday. It was pushing against the plates with a renewed vigor, gaining ground at a pace that defied his previous calculations.

He did not understand the sudden spike in output fully.

But first he pushed his mana forward anyway, fixing the tunneled rock, pushing the mutant back and packing dense layers of earth metal and wood back into the excavated tunnel, actively buying humanity half a day more time while his mind raced to find an answer.

Now he would make it go back from around 3.1 to around 3.6 days...

As he worked, a quiet, chilling theory took root in the back of his thoughts.

’’Is it digging faster because Selthia obtained the Shadow Core?’

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Miles away, cloaked in the silence of her crystal chamber, Selthia was figuratively pacing.

She was anxious... But her unease no longer stemmed from the humiliating outcome of her three-front offensive. She had deployed a sprawling army, burned a ton of elite units, and in return, she had only managed to salvage the Shadow Core; a meager consolation prize for a day of staggering losses. The humans had successfully stolen two elemental rings, incinerated her vanguards, and dismantled her grand strategy.

Yet yesterday’s failures no longer mattered. She was anxious about tomorrow.

She knew exactly what the humans were doing... 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖