Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 745

Chapter 745: Chapter 745 - Taming the Fifth Year - Stars of the Past - Betrayal and Its Consequences

Sirius invoked what little remained of his shadow control, feeling mana respond sluggishly after all the combat they’d survived. Wrapped the black egg in darkness and hid it in the small dimensional space he’d learned to create years ago.

’The potions can be divided between us, five and five without problem. If I leave them here with Lykea’s barrier protecting them, Luna could come when she’s older. Use them politically for her benefit or for herself when she’s better positioned in our family rank.’

The thought of Luna brought fresh pain. His daughter waiting above, unaware her mother had been transformed into crystal. Unaware that her father had failed to save the woman who’d loved them both with so much embarrassing intensity.

He kept thinking about it while walking in circles around the sealed door, his mind working through problems that had no obvious solutions.

How to obtain the other two cores?

In which ruins would they be located?

What secret did this door guard that required three different keys to open?

Was there really any way to recover Lykea or was the heart everything that remained of her?

Questions spun in his exhausted mind without finding answers, circular thoughts that led nowhere but couldn’t be stopped.

Eventually exhaustion won where reason couldn’t, physical limits overriding mental determination.

He collapsed beside the pedestal where the white heart rested, feeling embraced by the warm light emanating from the crystal that contained everything remaining of the woman he loved.

His last conscious image was of a soft light glowing steadily, a heartbeat, a rhythm that might have been imaginary but felt real enough to provide comfort as his consciousness slipped away...

Hours later a violent tremor yanked him from unconsciousness, its intensity suggested something catastrophic occurring.

The floor shook beneath him with strength sufficient to make dust fall from the ancient ceiling that hadn’t moved in centuries. Something had changed above in the surface world, something massive enough to be felt even in these sealed depths.

Sirius stood up looking toward the stairs ascending to the surface, toward whatever had just occurred while he’d been seeking answers in the depths.

Dread filled his chest as he recognized the tremor’s pattern, the specific way when beasts moved in massive numbers that made earth shake with their passage.

Orion came running into the chamber with a face showing fear that looked genuine rather than performed, an expression suggesting whatever was happening above transcended their personal conflict.

"We have problems!" he shouted desperately, words tumbling out with urgency that demanded immediate response. "Corrupted beasts are invading us!"

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ORION AWAKENS

Pain was the first thing Orion felt upon regaining consciousness, a sensation cutting through the fog of unconsciousness with sharp insistence.

Sharp pain in the arm that had been left at a strange angle during the explosion, bones grinding against each other in ways they weren’t designed for.

Stabbing pain in ribs where several superficial cuts healed slowly, flesh knitting back together at Gold-rank speed but not fast enough to prevent discomfort. A pulsing headache suggested he’d hit the wall with more force than his body could comfortably withstand, and his brain bruised inside a skull that had protected it from worse damage.

He sat up with effort, groaning while each muscle protested the movements with burning complaints. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

The ninth chamber was empty except for him and the evidence of a battle that had nearly killed them. The faded remains of fused spirits left no trace of their existence.

’The bastard is keeping everything for himself.’

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