Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 813

Chapter 813: Chapter 813 - Taming the Fifth Year - Impossibility

Each minute that passed without news was another minute of uncertainty accumulating over the previous ones until becoming an almost unbearable weight.

Where the hell had his older brother gotten himself into?

The question had been circling in his head without a satisfactory answer since the first reports arrived late yesterday.

Victor had entered Goldcrest territory with twenty powerful, highly capable men, had descended into the ancient ruin that their enemies had finally opened under political pressure, and then... silence.

No communication.

No progress reports.

Only absence that extended beyond any reasonable timeframe.

Had they really attacked and defeated him?

Julius stopped each time that thought crossed his mind because the implication was fundamentally impossible to accept.

Victor was basically as ’powerful’ as their father now after completing the thousand-day method and the additional cultivation that the resources Ren’s help had freed up had made possible. That put him in a category of tamers who could be counted on one hand throughout the entire kingdom.

Who would dare attack him?

He himself, Arturo and Selphira weren’t far from that level either... all had reached heights that made them forces to be reckoned with in any serious military conflict.

Did the opportunistic nobles really now have a way to deal with so much power overnight?

If that were the case, if they truly possessed capacity to neutralize a tamer of Victor’s level, they would have attacked much earlier when the political situation was more favorable for them. They would have struck when Selphira, Julius and their faction were less prepared, when their political image wasn’t so damaged, when they could have caused maximum damage before they finished their cultivation.

But they waited until now?

How could anyone with even two neurons think Victor could be in danger considering all the factors?

It was impossible.

It had to be impossible.

Selphira and he had let Victor handle the expedition to Goldcrest territory precisely because there was no realistic way to defeat him.

His power put most combatants in a desperate position from the start. His mobility with the fusion of Qilin and Golden Eagle gave him a tactical advantage few could match. He could retreat if the situation became unfavorable, could reposition faster than armies could respond, could strike from unexpected angles and disappear before counterattack was possible.

He was preparing everything necessary to finally send a complete military campaign if that became necessary, work that required meticulous attention to innumerable details.

"It seems so," Arturo responded with a voice showing fatigue from hours working without proper rest. "Reports indicate a concentration of forces we haven’t seen from them in years. As if they’d called in every vassal, every minor ally, every resource they could mobilize and positioned them around that ruin in Goldcrest territory specifically... They mobilized so much that I’m surprised having so much manpower they didn’t act during the war against Yino."

Julius frowned, his mind racing with implications. "That requires coordination that takes weeks to establish. It’s not something they could have orchestrated in response to Victor entering the territory. This was planned in advance; they must have acquired that power recently, but not that recently..."

"Exactly my conclusion, too," Arturo agreed, making a note on one of the documents in front of him. "Which means they might have been expecting someone like Victor to come. Or at least anticipating that someone of our caliber would eventually investigate."

The conclusion was unsettling because it suggested a level of premeditation that transformed this from a simple ruin dispute into something potentially more complex. Julius began pacing again, his footsteps echoing in the office as his brain continued to process the problem from every possible angle.

Was Orion really that clever?

How on earth had they managed it?

He kept returning to that fundamental question. Accepting for a moment that they had somehow neutralized Victor temporarily, that they had him contained or restrained in some capacity... how?

What method had they employed that could work against a tamer of that caliber?

And then Jin’s case came to mind. Ren and Professor Zhao had reported that incident days earlier...