Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1308

Chapter 1308: Chapter 1308 - Taming the Old World - Light Dragons - 12

The Light Dragon devoured the chimeric creature whole...

But the golden mushroom beast was not truly defeated, nor was it digested. The myriad of stolen survival traits it had acquired during its long exile allowed it to survive inside the guardian’s stomach.

It quietly extended its golden fungal threads throughout the host’s body, silently siphoning the dragon’s ambient energy and slowly metamorphosing over the years, without anyone, not even the guardian itself, realizing it was still alive.

That history explained everything...

It explained the horrific sight Ren had witnessed inside the chest cavity.

The golden hyphae suffocating the core.

The baffling ease with which the dragon had fallen, because the guardian had never been operating at its true peak; it had been secretly drained from the inside out for years.

It explained why the golden network felt so terrifyingly identical to the mycelium that had been woven through Ren’s own ’rebirth’ place.

But Ren did not know much of that history.

He knew little of the ruined forest, nothing of the chimeric creature, or the rogue explorer who had documented it. To Ren, there was only a familiar fungal web wrapped around a stolen core, a sickening premonition in his gut, and a headless corpse that was currently pulling itself off the ground when it should be turning into dust.

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The golden creature was finally awake.

It woke because its massive host had died.

And it woke because a vile, unmistakable surge of corrupted energy had just brushed against its golden threads.

The tiny pulse of dark ether Ren had used to purge the core had acted as an alarm bell.

That peculiar corrupted frequency was the only thing in the world the chimeric creature recognized as its mortal enemy. It was the exact same poison that had burned the net in its home forest to ash years ago.

It was the same energy the creature had sworn an oath to annihilate when the purple horde slaughtered the fungi its network depended on.

It had just felt that poison again.

It felt it radiating directly from Ren.

The small pulse of corruption Ren had summoned to kill the hyphae and secure his prize had not gone unnoticed. The creature recognized the scent of the venom it had sworn to avenge. It awoke inside the ruined shell of its host with a single, overriding directive hardwired into its aberrant nature.

Annihilate the source of the corruption...

The severed neck of the white dragon no longer ended in a dragon head.

Instead, massive clusters of golden mushrooms erupted from the ruined flesh, growing at a visible, sickening speed and taking the darkness and fire as new energy.

They anchored themselves to the dead light tissue, rapidly bridging the gaping wounds. Where the guardian’s head used to be, a colossal, pulsing mass of golden fungi bloomed, crowning the reanimated corpse and throbbing with a heartbeat of its own.