Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 746

Chapter 746: Chapter 746 - Taming the Fifth Year - Stars of the Past - Betrayal and Its Consequences - 2

Orion clutched the purple core, feeling corrupt power pulsing against his palm with a rhythm that felt wrong, unnatural, like a heartbeat from something that shouldn’t be alive.

Sirius had earned this through his actions...

By leaving him here unconscious and vulnerable. By stealing Lyzea’s crystallized heart that should have remained in Orion’s possession. By always, always acting as if he were better, more moral, more deserving of respect and authority.

By making Orion feel inadequate through his simple existence, through achieving Gold 2 easily when Orion had struggled to reach Gold 1, through being the golden child their father had favored while Orion had been the disappointing spare.

All the resentment from years of living in Sirius’s shadow crystallized in this moment, all the jealousy, inadequacy and suppressed rage finding focus in a corrupt sphere that promised revenge if he was willing to pay its price.

He knew what activating it would mean...

He understood the consequences that would ripple through close families and territories neighboring his. Recognized that innocent civilian deaths would result from summoning corrupted beasts into populated areas without proper defenses in place.

But Sirius deserved all of it for his arrogance, for his theft, for leaving Orion behind like worthless trash.

The rationalization felt thin even to himself, justification that couldn’t quite cover the enormity of what he was about to do. But fury and jealousy made excellent blinders, letting him ignore most of the consequences by focusing on the immediate satisfaction of ’revenge’.

Orion activated the core.

The sphere cracked in his hand, purple light exploding in wave that passed harmlessly through him but carried corruption into the world. Summoning signal that would attract every corrupted beast within a massive radius, drawing them toward the heart of this Starweaver territory and a bit of his for appearances sake, like moths to a flame that would burn them and everything else around where they land.

He felt it propagate through stone and earth, felt the corruption spreading like a disease. Felt the moment when those beasts began responding to the call, thousands of corrupted creatures turning toward a signal they couldn’t ignore even if they’d wanted to.

He’d never use it on himself, but the enemy of his enemy, today, was his friend...

Satisfaction warred with horror in his chest as he realized fully what he’d done, what couldn’t be undone now that the core had activated and the signal had spread.

This wasn’t just revenge on Sirius anymore. This was something that would make him responsible for atrocities he’d rationalized as justified when they were anything but.

But it was done.

The core was spent, its energy released into waves that couldn’t be recalled. The beasts were coming whether he regretted the decision or not.

So he pushed the horror down, buried it beneath the anger that was easier to feel than guilt. Convinced himself Sirius had forced this choice through his actions, that this was consequence rather than cause, effect rather than independent decision.

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