Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 874

Chapter 874: Chapter 874 - Taming the Fifth Year - Attrition - 3

Getting Julius and some more high-rank tamers would mean additional mana in the total pool.

More importantly: Julius was another heavy hitter who could engage command structure while others handled the masses.

"They shouldn’t be late," Arturo agreed while consulting the sun’s position to estimate how much time had passed since the assault began.

Should have completed initial exploration by now.

Should be redirected immediately upon arriving at the castle. Travel time to Goldcrest maybe 4-5 hours at his earth team march pace.

"Julius didn’t know we were coming here. But he’d figure out very quickly what’s happening with the messages I left him."

But even while saying those words, Arturo felt growing unease he couldn’t completely articulate.

Julius wasn’t a person who wasted time. Wouldn’t ignore the urgency of situations involving his own brother. If he hadn’t appeared yet when the sun was already beginning to descend toward afternoon...

That suggested something that they hadn’t anticipated was delaying him.

Which left increasingly concerning possibilities.

Unable to respond because he was dealing with his own crisis.

Arturo didn’t voice these thoughts aloud. No point in adding speculation to their concerns when they had concrete problems requiring immediate attention.

But the absence was noted. Worry grew with each passing hour that didn’t bring reinforcements.

♢♢♢♢

Julius and Zhao stood against the ruin’s narrow passage that barely permitted two people to stand side by side comfortably, in defensive positions they’d adopted approximately 2 hours ago when the situation had escalated from exploration to desperate survival.

The passage was maybe 2.5 meters wide. 3 meters high. Stone walls on both sides. Single entrance ahead where mutants were coming from. No exit behind where the rest of their team was positioned.

The small search group they’d brought was distributed through the tunnel in formation maximizing defensive coverage while minimizing friendly fire risk in such limited space.

They should have been sufficient for anything they’d reasonably expect to encounter in the already explored ruins.

Should have been.

But they were being attacked by a mutant flow that seemed literally endless.

Wave after wave of corrupted creatures entering the ruin with a frequency defying rational explanation of how so many could be attacking such a specific small area.

Not normal mutant behavior at all...

They’d attempted leaving the ruin several hours ago, right after completing the Brain analysis and recognizing that the missing cores meant they couldn’t do anything useful with the immediate discovery.

Simple enough plan. Return to the surface. Report the findings to Arturo at the castle and send a message to Selphira. Inform them of the knowledge that Orion probably had access to technology they hadn’t completely anticipated.

Standard post-exploration protocol. Nothing complicated.

But they were locked in by this strange event none of them had predicted.

Just when they reached the tunnel section from the last chamber connecting to the exit, mutants began appearing.

VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABELVerify