Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 872

Chapter 872: Chapter 872 - Taming the Fifth Year - Attrition

Arturo counted maybe 20-25 Gold-rank signatures underground. Possibly more, sensing through earth and stone was imprecise.

It could mean that Orion anticipated the Silver army was expendable while he maintained a core of true power in reserve.

Either possibility was unsettling for different reasons.

If Orion considered the surface army expendable... What did that say about his strategic calculations? About how much power he actually had access to? About what he was planning next?

Questions without immediate answers. But questions that would need answering soon.

For now, Arturo needed to concentrate on neutralizing the immediate threat of hundreds of tamers in the immediate range and the thousands still organizing for more coordinated responses.

The enemy army, despite having lost some hundreds in Selphira’s first attack, was still very large in absolute numbers.

More than 4000 Silver-rank combatants remain mobile and mostly capable of healing and rescuing the frozen ones. Gold-rank leaders still directing them. Enough mass to be dangerous if properly organized.

And they began implementing even more defensive tactics that were effective specifically when you had many people available to coordinate, approaches leveraging volume over individual quality.

It was an iteration of elemental power, each tamer contributing their mana to the construction of the collective.

Smart tactics. Exactly what you should do when outnumbered but not outmassed.

The walls formed a rough channeling structure, not complete fortification but enough to direct attacking forces into kill zones where fire volume could concentrate without risk of hitting allies by mistake.

Classic defensive design. Any academy would have approved.

And that fire volume began manifesting as dozens of tamers with fire affinity coordinated attacks amplifying each other.

One tamer launched modest-sized fireball, maybe basketball-sized, strong but not overwhelming.

But when it passed through space where three other fire tamers were channeling flame energy, the ball grew exponentially.

By the time it reached its intended target, a projectile that had started as a minor threat had transformed into an inferno that could melt steel and vaporize water instantly.

And they could launch maybe 10-15 of these per minute. Creating continuous barrage that would overwhelm even golden rank defensive techniques through sheer sustained output.

Again, decent smart tactics. Using numbers advantage appropriately. Creating threats that individually superior opponents would still have to respect.

These were tactics functioning precisely because the enemy had massive numbers permitting coordination at scale that a small group couldn’t replicate.

If Selphira and Arturo had tried facing that with a conventional approach of simply charging directly toward the enemy formation’s center, they’d have been overwhelmed by the pure volume of elemental attacks converging from multiple directions.

Even Gold 3 couldn’t tank 10+ amplified fire attacks simultaneously. Even Selphira’s defense had limits when focused fire exceeded those limits through accumulation.

Even if she had finished Ren’s 1000 days extra cultivation.

But Selphira and Arturo’s group was small in numbers, and that smallness was also advantageous when applied appropriately rather than a disadvantage needing compensation.

Arturo gave signals that all tamers under his command recognized immediately. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

All fingers raised. Sharp downward motion.

Disperse.

The group divided into small cells of 5 tamers each.

35 tamers became 7 cells. Each cell capable of operating independently but maintaining tactical communication with other cells through signals established previously.

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