Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 827

Chapter 827: Chapter 827 - Taming the Fifth Year - Spirit of the Torch - 3

Ren channeled the decision he’d made into clear instructions through the bond with the mantis.

The beast responded immediately, understanding without need for extensive elaboration what it needed to do.

The scythes that served as the mantis’s primary weapons, those sharpened extensions of its exoskeleton that could cut through defenses that would stop conventional ones, began igniting with brilliant light.

It wasn’t simply external illumination but a manifestation of elements integrated directly into the weapons, light flowing through the scythes like energy waiting to be released in a devastating cut.

The intensity increased with each second while the mantis prepared the next exchange, brightness eventually reaching a point where several spectators had to squint to observe without discomfort.

And then the mantis disappeared.

Not with conventional invisibility it had been using until now but with a shadow jump, a completely different technique that operated under principles that defying normal physical understanding.

The mantis’s body behaved strangely during the transition between light and shadow, its existence becoming ambiguous in ways that made it difficult to track even for a creature that perceived the world purely in terms of spiritual energy.

Because in shadow jumps, the mantis didn’t simply move faster than eyes could follow.

It became shadow temporarily, a state where its presence in the physical world was questionable and its mana signature fluctuated and didn’t follow predictable patterns. It was as if it stretched here and there... as if it existed and didn’t exist simultaneously during the fraction of a second it took to complete the jump.

The mantis used that strange property of shadow jumping deliberately to deceive the spirit’s vision that saw energy directly.

When its mana fluctuated between states during transition, the Will-o’-Wisp lost the capacity to track it with the perfect certainty it had demonstrated until now. It was a brief moment of confusion where the spirit searched for a clear signal of where its target had gone.

And in that moment of confusion, the mantis emerged from the shadows in a position the Will-o’-Wisp hadn’t anticipated, scythes glowing with light that now served double purpose.

Not only as a weapon but as deliberate contrast against the darkness from which it had just emerged, enmity of light and darkness used together in a way that amplified the effectiveness of both.

The scythes cut through the Will-o’-Wisp with power that hadn’t been possible before when the mantis depended only on physical speed and attacks to close the distance and hit.

The spirit shrieked, a sound that was more vibration in the air than real voice, manifestation of pain that a creature without physical form could express.

The light integrated into the scythes didn’t simply cut but burned spiritual essence in a way ordinary elements couldn’t, penetration that went beyond superficial damage.

The Will-o’-Wisp attempted to teleport immediately, escape before a second cut could connect.

But the mantis was ready for that, had anticipated the response based on the pattern the spirit had established during previous exchanges too.

It jumped to shadows again just as the fire disappeared, following it through the transition with timing that suggested instinctive understanding of how the spirit’s teleportation worked.

They reappeared almost simultaneously, the mantis emerging from shadows in the same moment the Will-o’-Wisp materialized in a new position.

And the scythes cut again before the spirit could adjust, a second blow connecting with force that dispersed a portion of the Will-o’-Wisp’s mass temporarily.

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