Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 1313

Chapter 1313: Chapter 1313 - Taming the Old World - Ominous Silence

Selthia’s army was caught in a brutal crossfire: blasted from the front by an elusive guardian they could no longer clearly see, and systematically frozen and shattered from behind by a four-hundred-year-old matriarch hunting them for sport.

Without the ancient entity to talk her out of her panic, the girl had walked straight into a tactical trap of her own making again.

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Down in the capital of Yano, Ren was busy running his own numbers.

Before heading to the command post, he had made a quick detour along the inner wall to check on his parents. Reed and Fern were right where they had been since yesterday morning, their faces lined with dark circles after yesterday’s hours channeling restorative mana into wave after wave of wounded soldiers.

Despite being dead on their feet, the two of them were in one piece, and the instant they spotted Ren, they immediately launched into a dual lecture. They fussed over his pale face and his crystallized forearm, scolding him like he was still a ten-year-old boy tracking mud into the house for wasting his precious free minutes checking on them instead of taking care of himself.

After enduring their scolding with a sheepish grin and making sure they had eaten, Ren walked up to the central war table, where Arturo and Julius were waiting for him over the spread parchment.

"Let’s go over it fast," Ren said, resting his good hand on the edge of the table. "The two hundred Platinums and the six Diamonds retreating from the south are almost at our doorstep. If we add the hundred Platinums and the single Diamond that left here for the north, assuming they pull a U-turn and march back, we are looking at a ceiling of three hundred Platinums and seven Diamonds total. Though they would only converge here if they all committed to the city... say, if I decided to fly north."

"Even if that northern column turned around right this second, it would take them nearly an hour of hard marching to get back," Arturo pointed out, tapping the road markers. "So the seventh Diamond is not an immediate factor."

Ren nodded, keeping his eyes on the terrain lines as he posed the two questions that actually mattered.

"I need two numbers from you, Arturo. First: how many top-tier Tamers do we have to keep behind these walls to guarantee the city holds against that absolute worst-case scenario of three hundred Platinums and seven Diamonds? Second: how many heavy hitters can we safely peel off right now to fly north and back up Selphira?"

Arturo already had the equations half-built in his head; he finished the math out loud without needing to check his notes.

"To hold the walls against seven Diamond titans, my math says we need fourteen Tamers operating at my level," Arturo said, gesturing toward the veteran commander beside him. "Right now, we actually meet that threshold, though only because the curve is skewed at the top. You and Liora alone count for four or five elites on a defensive line, and Luna and Larissa cover at least another three between them; moreover, you can pick Diamonds apart one-on-one fast. If we keep the four of you here alongside Julius, Victor, Taro, and our thousands of Gold Tamers managing the Platinum crowd, the capital can weather that full siege without cracking."

"And how does that change if we want to reinforce the north?" Ren asked.

A dry smile touched the corner of Arturo’s mouth.

"If you personally stay on the ramparts, we can afford to shave our margin and send one or two fast strike pairs up the coast," the strategist replied. "Victor has the airspeed to fly up with Larissa, and Liu could make the trip alongside Sirius or Luna. Perhaps one more, if we stretch the line. It isn’t an army, yet dropping four or five people of that caliber into Selphira’s fight is more than enough to break any stalemate the 100 plus one can make."

Arturo raised his eyes from the parchment, his expression sobering. "The entire equation hinges on those three words, though: if you stay. Selthia pulled her garrison away from our gates to go win the north, yet her whole play right now relies on keeping you glued to this place. To force you to stay home, she has to park those six southern Diamonds right outside our walls as a gun to our head. If you don’t take the bait and fly north to help Selphira, you might spook Selthia into turning those hundred Platinums and that seventh Diamond back around to hit the city while you are gone, leaving us short-handed against seven titans... But the beauty of sending fast flyers like Liu and Victor instead is that if Selthia’s northern column tries to U-turn toward the city, our people can beat them back to the walls by air."

Ren stared down at the map, taking in the three active fronts, the marching columns, and the spacing between them.

Selthia’s game plan was transparent.

It was not a brilliant, multi-layered trap; cut off from the purple dragon, she did not have the head for grand chess matches anymore. Even so, it was a blunt, functional bind. She was using her six southern Diamonds as a heavy anchor to pin him to Yano’s walls, banking on his refusal to gamble with civilian lives so that she could buy herself the time to butcher the Northern Light Guardian without him interfering.

If Ren stayed in the capital, the northern front had to fight without him. If Ren flew north, he left the city exposed to a seven-Diamond hammer.

It was a classic choice between two bad outcomes, the exact sort of fork every commander hated facing because neither lane offered a clean win.

Except Ren had no intention of playing by her rules.

"Liora and I are more than enough to hold the fort here," Ren said, his eyes fixed on the northern peak as the lingering warmth of the castle’s dragon energy hummed quietly through his veins, his mind already piecing together the third option that nobody else in the room had spotted yet. "Don’t just send four people north. Send six of our strongest hitters up right now; you can decide whether to put Taro or someone else in the final slot."

He looked up at Arturo, a calm, knowing glint in his eyes.

"Selthia has no intention of throwing those six Diamonds against our walls; she is terrified of losing them to me, so she is just going to park them on the grass outside to keep me on a leash. Let’s let her believe she has me trapped..."

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Minutes after the war room adjourned, six silhouettes launched from the castle courtyard and tore northward up the coast.