Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 803

Chapter 803: Chapter 803 - Taming the Fifth Year - Immovable - 15

The two teams worked on their arrangements simultaneously. Each trying to predict the other’s thinking. Adjusting orders based on assumptions about what the opponent would prioritize.

It was a chess game before the pieces even began moving.

When they finally revealed their orders to Zhao for confirmation...

Larissa had won the arrangement matchup.

By a narrow margin.

But sufficiently.

She’d predicted correctly most of Ren’s decisions about positioning.

And had adjusted her own order to exploit those anticipated decisions.

Guaranteeing early victories that would build momentum before facing him directly. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

It was a small advantage. Ren’s team was weaker on average than Larissa’s anyway... he’d had fewer quality options in the random teammate assignment lottery.

But every advantage counted in this situation.

Especially when you knew eventually you’d have to face the monster at the end of the line.

Larissa allowed herself a small smile when she saw confirmation that her prediction had been correct.

Ren noticed the smile. Understood what it meant.

And nodded with genuine respect. "Well played."

Larissa inclined her head in acknowledgment. "Thank you. But this only means I’ll reach you with two or three victory advantages. Doesn’t change the outcome."

It was true and both knew it.

But Larissa would take any advantage she could secure.

The initial battles began with a ceremonial announcement.

First member of Larissa’s team against first member of Ren’s team.

Victory for Larissa as she’d anticipated.

First against second. Victory for Larissa again. Faster this time.

First against third. Ron entered here, demonstrating why he was one of the team’s strong cards. Won cleanly against his opponent.

But the score remained 2-1 in Larissa’s favor.

The pattern continued until Larissa obtained the final victory in the first phase, reaching Ren’s turn with some more members than expected still having advantage.

And then it was Ren’s turn to enter the field.

He stood on the opposite side. Observing her with a neutral expression that revealed nothing of what he was thinking.

Everyone expected Ren would use the mantis first as always. It was his most frequently deployed beast lately. The most famous now after its tournament performance. The one that had destroyed opponents with ease during the entire exam.

But Ren manifested the hydra instead.

The beast appeared in an explosion of blue-green mana. The now famous two heads rising on serpentine necks. Diamond scales gleaming brilliantly under the afternoon sunlight.

And Ren had an expression that Larissa recognized immediately.

He wasn’t here to just win.

He was here to showcase his beast.

The next member of Larissa’s team, a student with earth beast at Silver 2 rank, prepared defensively.

The hydra didn’t wait for the opponent to establish position.

The first head rose smoothly, its mouth opening to reveal the glowing interior.

Light concentrating in the throat with visible intensity.

And then it fired almost instantaneously without prolonged charge time.

A beam of pure light crossing the field in fraction of a second.

The student’s beast attempted blocking with an earth barrier. Raising a thick wall of reinforced rock but it didn’t even reach half the necessary height for coverage on time.

And the beam still struck only the upper portion with half its circumference and penetrated as if the barrier didn’t exist at all. Impacted the beast directly behind the inadequate defense. Exploded in brilliance that made several spectators avert their eyes from the glare.

When the light dissipated...

The remaining half of the beast was dispersing into mana on the ground. The bond severed cleanly.

One strike. Not even five seconds of battle total.

Zhao raised his hand, barely able to process how rapidly it had concluded. "Victory: Ren Patinder."

Score now 9-6.

The seventh member of Larissa’s team entered with determination.

Same result. The hydra fired a light beam... One strike.

Victory.

9-7 now, another point in Ren’s favor.

"This is the minimum my hydra can accomplish. This is the level where it operates."

She’d known it would be one-sided.

But seeing it was different from knowing it.

Four consecutive eliminations. Four one-shot victories.

Without the hydra even using its second head to help in any coordinated attacks.

Just the first head firing repeatedly.

Like target practice.

She swallowed against the tightness in her throat.

This was what she’d trained so hard to face.

This was the standard she’d been trying to reach.

And the gap was... larger than she’d hoped.

But she couldn’t afford dwelling on that now.

Because it was her turn.

She was the last member of her team remaining.

The only one with a real chance of changing the outcome.

The final obstacle between Ren and complete victory.

And she had to give everything she had.

Although honestly...

It wasn’t going to happen.

Larissa walked to her position on the field with measured steps.

But that wasn’t really the point.

The point was to put up a proper fight. To show improvement. To prove that the training and resources invested in her were worthwhile.

And mainly...

To see exactly where she stood compared to the standard Ren represented.

Larissa stared at the hydra in front of her.

And honestly, she had no idea how to proceed against that immovable wall.