Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 739

Chapter 739: Chapter 739 - Taming the Fifth Year - Stars of the Past - 5

Selphira kept recounting the story, this time without the sanitized edges Sirius had given his daughter.

"The door did open. Not immediately after the statues descended. But later. When the ancient mechanisms finished processing their... sacrifice."

Ren absorbed this, connecting pieces.

"And the crystallized hearts?"

"Were keys. Not just for that door but for the entire ruin system." Selphira’s expression darkened. "The ancients built failsafes. Required living sacrifice transformed into crystal to access deepest secrets. Maybe because they believed only those willing to pay the ultimate price deserved knowledge that could reshape the world."

She paused.

"Maybe they were idiots... But very powerful idiots."

"When Orion activated the final mechanism with the Platinum core," Selphira continued, "he completed the sequence. The door opened."

"And?"

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And around him, the survivors of the expedition began to process what had happened.

To understand that the two factions of one the great houses had just lost their queens. That families would be shattered. That children would grow up without mothers.

That all of this... had come from greed, impatience and refusal to follow rules that existed for reasons.

Orion stood alone, staring at where Lyzea had vanished.

Not moving, nor speaking... Just standing like a statue himself.

And Sirius, kneeling on warm stone, finally understood something that would haunt him forever:

He’d saved Orion.

Had pushed himself beyond limits to save his brother from the consequences of his terrible decisions.

And in doing so, he’d made the woman he loved sacrifice.

Had ultimately, even if indirectly, let Lykea die so Orion could live.

The guilt of that would follow him for the rest of his life.

Because living meant remembering.

Remembering the already done damage every day.

The damage that would ripple through families and factions and ultimately destroy a little girl’s world when she learned what happened to the mother who loved her with intensity that was embarrassing.

The mother who would never embarrass her again.

Never hold her too tight.

Never proclaim love in ways that made everyone uncomfortable.

Because all that remained was crystal somewhere beneath stone.

And a heart that had been extracted and left embedded on a door.

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