Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1305

Chapter 1305: Chapter 1305 - Taming the Old World - Light Dragons - 9

Ren carefully drew back the dense dragon energy currently flooding the channels in his left arm...

He didn’t need to retract Mooshito’s network, as the little mushroom had already condensed its presence deep within Ren’s own core for hibernation.

With the system channels in his petrified arm temporarily clear, Ren reached out to the sprawling ethereal grid of the ancient corruption, the very same poisonous frequency he had been involuntarily tethered to through his spiritual crack for years now.

He carefully invited a tiny, heavily controlled trickle of that dark ether into his system, routing it straight down his left arm. He felt the familiar, sickening nausea, the agonizing burn of a poison his body normally wanted to reject, but it was a manageable dose.

Besides, the nerve endings in his crystallized arm barely registered the pain anymore.

He gathered just enough of the dark ether in his palm to condense a small, dense ball of purple corruption.

He held his hand out and crushed the sphere, unleashing a short, concentrated pulse of dark energy directly into the golden roots wrapping the core.

The instant the purple ether made contact, the golden lines withered, the two opposing energies neutralizing each other on the spot.

The corrupt pulse rippled through the invasive hyphae network surrounding the heart. The vast majority of the golden roots blackened, shriveled, and turned to ash, leaving the Light Core significantly cleaner, brighter, and largely purged of the parasite.

Corruption was lethal poison to this golden web, exactly as it was that time. The immediate reaction confirmed his grim suspicion beyond a shadow of a doubt.

It was an ancient fungal network.

Ren didn’t waste another second... He grabbed the core, physically tearing it free from the few remaining roots, and shoved it straight into his shadow space. The primary objective was secured.

The purge had worked flawlessly. Exactly as he had predicted.

And that flawless execution only made the knot in his stomach twist tighter.

A second later, his worst fear materialized.

The massive carcass of the dragon did not dissolve.

It should have started to evaporate instantly. A dead guardian stripped of its core was nothing more than an empty vessel connected to the ether; its physical form always broke down into ambient mana within moments. This massive body should be dissolving into harmless motes of light right now.

Instead, it began to twitch.

The heavy, viscous flesh surrounding the crater, which had gone perfectly still, began to writhe. And then, defying every known law of draconic biology, the ruined tissue began to actively rebuild itself, frantically knitting back together despite lacking a core to power the regeneration.

Something else inside the carcass was reanimating the flesh. Something completely separate from the Light Core Ren had just stolen.

Something that had been lying dormant in the dark, patiently waiting for this exact moment to wake up.

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"PRESS THE ATTACK!" Ren roared, leaping backward out of the cavernous chest as his bad premonition spiked into full-blown panic. "SOMETHING IS WRONG IN ITS STOMACH! HIT THAT EXACT SPOT WITH EVERYTHING YOU HAVE!"