Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 850

Chapter 850: Chapter 850 - Taming the Fifth Year - Devour Thyself, Lesser Ouroboros

A self-devouring serpent.

Theory said it was possible for sufficiently advanced spiritual beasts to consume portions of themselves and convert that consumption into explosive power increase. Not sustainable, but devastating in the moment.

Like burning your own furniture to heat your house. Effective short-term but catastrophic long-term.

But Liora didn’t need it long-term... She just needed to win now.

The severed tail section, still spiritually connected to the main body despite physical separation, began moving. Writhing toward the serpent’s head with unnatural purpose.

The Bashe’s permanent smile widened impossibly as its jaw opened.

And it bit down on its own tail, teeth sinking into spiritual flesh, consuming itself.

The crowd went silent.

Ren’s smile vanished, replaced by intense focus.

A serpent devouring itself in an act defying normal biological logic but resonating with profound symbolism permeating spiritual cultivation.

The ouroboros. The eternal cycle. Death and rebirth contained in a single impossible moment.

Ren sighed while watching the technique in its earlier form, expression communicating resignation more than frustration.

He’d known this was possible... 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Had even explained it to Liora in the Bashe’s potential development path. But he’d expected this particular breakthrough to come much later, not now.

Yet he realised that Liora, like him and his other companions, had obtained an ability they were supposed to acquire later.

The elemental curse ability the Bashe had just unlocked normally required the serpent to be at Gold 3 rank.

Two full ranks ahead of where it currently was. That was the standard progression. But intense battle seemed to have pushed both Liora and the Bashe beyond normal progression limits.

It was a phenomenon Ren had seen before, even in himself, moments where extreme pressure unlocked capabilities prematurely because necessity exceeded considerations of gradual preparation. Survival didn’t care about optimal timing.

The curse ability now activating would allow the Bashe to assimilate wood and earth elements much more easily for a considerable period, thanks to having consumed them along with its own essence in the self-devouring act.

It wasn’t permanent mastery... More like a temporary affinity boost for those specific elements. The Bashe could drain wood and earth mana from attacks and the environment at way higher rates.

It was a significant advantage considering the field was covered with roots and wooden structures that had previously been threats but could now convert into resources.

Every root the wolverine created became potential food. Every earth construct became potential fuel. The battlefield itself had transformed from weapon to buffet.

The disadvantage was that the serpent would be in what ancient texts called "possessed mode" during the curse’s active duration.

It would spend considerably more energy producing large quantities of miasma, consumption that would eventually exhaust its reserves if the battle prolonged too much. The burn rate would be 2× or 3× normal spiritual energy expenditure, maybe higher depending on how aggressively the Bashe used the enhanced power.

But short-term it would provide defensive and offensive power exceeding what a Gold 1 Bashe could normally manifest. Maybe approaching Gold 2 or even Gold 3 levels of output, though without the corresponding increase in base stats.

Ren had genuinely expected Liora and the Bashe to learn this technique upon reaching Gold 2, maybe early but not as far as Gold 1. Seeing it execute now was testament both to the desperation of the situation and to the extraordinary determination Liora had consistently demonstrated.

Desperate brilliance.

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