Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 775

Chapter 775: Chapter 775 - Taming the Fifth Year - Concession - 2

"Somewhere different," Victor murmured while examining the dead-end chamber. "Not like what Selphira described for the end chamber."

This was a terminal point... A final destination.

There was nothing beyond this chamber because there was no door leading anywhere else.

It was simply a final repository. A place where sacrifices without hearts could rest in peace. Or where hearts could activate their protective barriers without cost of wear from constant use.

But without the required hearts to activate defenses... without a door to advance further into whatever secrets the ancients had hidden...

This was all the Goldcrest ruin contained.

Victor surveyed the rest of the chamber methodically, checking every corner. Searching for additional secrets, hidden passages, anything the Goldcrest might have concealed even from their own faction members.

He only found empty pedestals where prizes had surely rested once before being claimed.

The Goldcrest had looted everything they could carry away over years of having exclusive access.

But the chamber wasn’t completely empty despite their thorough pillaging... Victor saw something that generated more questions than answers, something that made his instincts sharpen immediately.

Two forms on the opposite side from the chamber’s entrance.

He approached slowly to examine them more thoroughly, professional caution warring with curiosity about what had been left behind.

And his breathing stopped completely.

They were statues made from dense crystal that gleamed faintly with internal light.

Just like his father’s one..

Two human figures preserved perfectly as if they’d been converted to crystal in the middle of movement, their expressions frozen in the final moment before transformation. Every detail captured with impossible clarity... individual strands of hair, the texture of clothing, the lines around the eyes.

Victor attempted touching one carefully. His hand encountered a surface that felt more solid than the stone of the ’unbreakable’ bridge his father had created before leaving the kingdom on his shoulders.

His mind worked rapidly through implications while examining the statues with growing horror.

’If there are two here... And the pattern is the same as the Starweaver ruin...’

’Then there’s a high probability that Lykea and Lyzea are at the end of the other ruin. The door with three indentations. The one requiring three cores to open even deeper than this chamber goes should lead to them.’

Victor returned his attention to the statues before him, studying details that were still visible clearly in the chamber’s strange ambient light.

Both had hollows in their chests that drew his focus immediately.

Perfect cavities... Geometric precisión.

As if something with complex connections had been removed perfectly intact without damaging surrounding the crystalline structure at all.

Where the mana hearts had been before transformation.

’Is it impossible to recover the person even by returning the heart?’ Victor wondered while tracing the hollow with his fingers.

’Or perhaps the Goldcrest never returned them,’ he thought with sadness mixing with anger. ’They may have obtained the crystallized hearts and simply... kept them. Using them as weapons. As political tools for leverage and power.’

’But if that’s true... where are they now?’

The question troubled him more than the discovery itself. Because if the hearts weren’t on pedestals protected by barriers or returned to their owners’ chests...

Then someone had them somewhere, using them for purposes unknown.

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