Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 885

Chapter 885: Chapter 885 - Taming the Fifth Year - Attrition - Explosive Healing 2

Min’s improvement was a huge surprise...

It was another technique Ren hadn’t expected to see until much later in his development.

Skin secretions from the amphibian. Substances that Ren had noticed before losing access to his fungus’s complete knowledge and hadn’t analyzed fully because he hadn’t expected to encounter them so soon.

The mechanism was elegant in its brutality. The Amphib’s skin constantly produced various compounds, oils, mucus, enzymes, as part of its natural biology. Most amphibians did this to maintain skin moisture and provide basic defense against parasites and minor injuries.

But Min’s control over water had apparently reached a level where he could manipulate exactly how those secretions were constituted and behaved upon contact. It was something like specific chemicals being released in concentrations that caused a massive exothermic reaction when exposed to oxygen or when mixed with foreign substances or pressure.

The energy from the Mantis’s strike had apparently acted as a catalyst. The moment it hit, it triggered a cascade that reacted... Violently.

The result was an explosion that turned defensive hide into an offensive weapon. Every attack became a risk now, every strike carried the possibility of detonating in that specific area of the amphibian’s body.

Min had even waited until Ren calculated the speed with his preemptive strike and committed to a bigger, slower one.

It was brilliant... Frustrating, but brilliant.

It seemed, making jokes was not the job of an "unintelligent clown" as Jin had once called him.

The Amphibian lunged forward suddenly, faster than its previous movements.

More surprises...

Min had apparently been feinting slowness, keeping the beast’s full speed in reserve for a trap.

It even attempted to follow up with a bite while the mantis was still recovering from being thrown backward, its massive jaws opening and snapping forward with surprising speed for something so large.

But the Mantis had already activated her own incredible agility, using her superior speed to twist in midair and avoid the incoming attack by maybe 0.2-0.3 seconds. Close enough that it could feel the displaced air from the jaws snapping shut, but far enough that teeth didn’t connect with the exoskeleton.

Too close still... Much too close.

Ren’s jaw tightened.

Min snapped his fingers in disappointment at the bite’s failure, but he smiled with satisfaction at seeing the explosive technique’s effectiveness. "Do you like it?" he called across the arena with pride he didn’t try to hide. "I spent weeks perfecting the exact mixtures of secretions and the concentration necessary to make the ’explosive defense’ work consistently. Turns out water isn’t just for healing or cutting or making ice. If you understand it well enough, you can convert it into a weapon that explodes like a good hysteric laughter when you want it to explode."

It was a revelation demonstrating a level of sophistication in Min’s approach that Ren hadn’t fully appreciated until this moment...

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