Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1295

Chapter 1295: Chapter 1295 - Taming the Old World - Compulsory Reaction - 6

Larissa and Liora stood by the base of the glowing pillar, staring at him as if a stranger had just stepped into his boots.

The flustered Ren from sixty seconds ago, the boy who had been tripping over his own tongue and hiding behind dry, academic explanations of mana conduits because he could not finish a simple sentence, had vanished into thin air. Standing in his place was a young man with his chin held high, a crooked, almost roguish grin tugging at the corner of his mouth, and his good hand extended toward them with a poise that bordered on brazen challenge.

As the ambient glow of the subterranean ley line shifted, the pale crystals tracing the side of his jaw caught the light. It gave his profile a sharp, masculine edge that, frankly, did not do any favors for either girl’s willpower.

"That..." Larissa blinked twice, her poise wavering as she tried to reconcile the image in front of her. "That is not the same Ren who was stammering at us a minute ago."

"It is the dragon energy," Liora murmured, her voice dropping into a slightly husky register as she kept her eyes locked on his face. "It magnifies everything... And it clearly does not stop at nature or combat instincts."

It was becoming very obvious that the refined essence of the ancient dragons did far more than swell a Tamer’s mana channels or sharpen their reflexes for war. The golden current had also amplified something buried deep in Ren’s demeanor, pouring a heady, unshakeable boldness straight into his bloodstream right alongside the power.

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Thirty paces back, tucked into the shadowed archway of the vault’s entrance behind their concealment artifacts, Min and Mayo had stopped laughing.

Every trace of mirth had dried up in their throats. Now, the two of them simply crouched there with their eyes wide open, frozen in stunned silence.

"...Are you seeing this?" Min whispered, for once in his life coming up completely empty on a punchline. "Ren just... Wait a second, does this mean now Ren Player Patinder will come out of retirement whenever he absorbs dragon energy?"

"The man went from forgetting how to speak his own language to... to that." Mayo slowly shook her head beneath the illusion veil, struggling to process the shift. "And he did it in three seconds flat."

"Nobody upstairs is going to believe us."

"Not a single soul is going to believe us," Mayo agreed, her voice dropping to a fierce whisper. "Which is why we are burning every detail of this into our memories right now, Min. What we are looking at is worth more than any treasure buried in the ancient ruins."

Holding their breath beneath the stealth array, the two of them kept their eyes glued to the center of the cavern as Larissa finally drew in a shaky breath. Her knees were visibly trembling beneath her skirt, yet her stubborn pride refused to let her be the only one of the three to chicken out.

Squaring her shoulders, she took a firm step forward toward the General who waited for her with an outstretched hand and that dangerous new smile.

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