Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 857

Chapter 857: Chapter 857 - Taming the Fifth Year - Pieces of the Board - 2

The timeline wasn’t coincidental.

Orion had known the Dravenholms would eventually find the brain, the corruption spreading through Yino’s tunnel systems was only a temporary obstruction, not a permanent seal. Given enough time and enough tamers clearing paths, Julius’s earth tamers team would inevitably reach the destination.

But arriving at a destination without the key was meaningless.

Like finding a locked door and having no way to open it. The discovery meant nothing without the means to use it.

’And each time I understand and control the keys better.’ he thought to himself.

3 years of study...

3 years of careful experimentation, testing boundaries, mapping the energy patterns, understanding how each stone interacted with the others.

He was further along in that comprehension than anyone suspected.

Orion thought with satisfaction that the advantage had been enormous for Yino... They had it all during years when the city had been under control of leadership that understood the real value of what the ancient ruins contained.

’All that ancient knowledge at their fingertips...’

It was knowledge that made the current-generation techniques look primitive. Understanding of elements, of spiritual cultivation, of power systems that current academia had rediscovered only fragments of over 5 centuries of painstaking research.

Everything the old civilization had known. Everything they’d built into those ruins before they vanished.

And he wondered internally, not for the first time, how the hell Yino had lost the war against Yano if they had access to all that information and technology that should have given them absolute superiority in the last large-scale conflict.

It was a question that had bothered him for years of planning, a contradiction that didn’t fit cleanly with his understanding of how relative power should determine outcomes of confrontations on that scale.

Superior crystal technology, superior ancient knowledge and access to ruins that Yano had barely begun to explore. Resources that should have been overwhelmingly decisive.

And yet Yino lost.

How?

The question mattered because if Orion didn’t understand why Yino had failed with superior advantages, he couldn’t guarantee his own plan wouldn’t fail for the same reason.

But he had an almost perfect answer.

’It has to be that... They trusted that damn crystalline entity invader, they let it use them instead of using the stones’ power for themselves. Look how they contaminated them...’

The theory had been forming for many years now, pieces clicking into place as Orion studied the stones and the corruption that permeated Yino’s underground.

The crystalline entity had landed from the sky in Yino’s territory.

And instead of treating this unknown entity with appropriate suspicion, Yino’s leadership had ended up welcoming it. Had listened to what it suggested. Had allowed it access to the ancient ruins and the crystal hearts and the knowledge systems that should have been the foundation of Yino’s power.

Trust given to something that shouldn’t have been trusted.

The corruption spreading through Yino’s tunnels... the purple crystalline growth that made navigation difficult and that had been slowly poisoning the city’s underground for years, was a direct consequence of that trust.

The entity had been feeding... Or growing... Or something between the two that didn’t translate cleanly into concepts human minds processed easily, something to do with crystals.

’Idiots. They had everything and they gave it to something that didn’t save them in the end.’

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