Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 884

Chapter 884: Chapter 884 - Taming the Fifth Year - Attrition - Explosive Healing

The Mantis disengaged immediately, not wanting to be crushed by the huge foot...

Smart.

Don’t overcommit when facing a superior opponent, better hit and fade. Accumulate damage through many small wounds rather than risking everything on a single decisive blow.

The pattern established itself over the next 30 seconds. Mantis would attack from an unexpected angle. Amphibian would shift position to minimize the damage, mantis would disengage before a counterattack could land.

Repeat.

Ren watched the exchanges with a growing recognition that this fight was going to be longer and more difficult than he’d hoped.

But it wasn’t unwinnable based on the amphibian’s reaction speed.

Ren smiled at the improvement in Min’s beast’s healing quality. A good healer friend was always welcome news.

Well, perhaps not when you were facing him in combat.

But this also revealed a capability that Ren hadn’t completely anticipated, a development demonstrating that Min had been training aspects of elemental control that exceeded what they’d discussed during previous sessions.

The amphibian could surely use light better now in its illusions, just like the Mantis could. It wasn’t only capable of becoming invisible but could now project more complex illusions using manipulated light.

The Mantis’s clone technique was out of question now since it wouldn’t work effectively if the enemy beast could interfere with its functioning, because it was already an ability the Mantis could barely control at her current level.

At least it didn’t matter if additional copies of the amphibian appeared distributed around the arena, because with Ren’s mana perception, it was obvious which one was real and which were simply light constructs. The real amphibian had a spiritual signature that was impossible to fake completely, a density of presence that illusions couldn’t replicate no matter how visually convincing they appeared.

Even so, his friends continued surprising him. Min’s progress in light manipulation was faster than Ren had expected. Min had apparently compressed his timeline through focused training and creative application of theory.

"Interesting," Ren murmured with genuine appreciation of the progress Min had achieved.

But as useful as it would be against most opponents, it still didn’t provide an advantage against someone who could simply ignore that visual aspect completely. Mana perception trumped visual deception, and Ren had that particular skill specifically to counter illusion-based tactics.

Min observed Ren’s lack of reaction and sighed again, this time with genuine resignation evident in the sound. "Alright," he said, "I guess we’re doing this the old, boring way then. No elegant tricks. Just hitting each other until one of us falls."

Ren’s smile grew wider at the declaration. Who does the harder hits...

It was time to test whether his friend had managed to improve his response to the greatest weakness in his construction as a tamer, an area that Ren had identified would take considerable time during the planning of his beasts’ long-term cultivation development.

Min would have to reach close to Selphira’s level in water control to have a proper counter. An ice counter against the wood element.

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