Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 886

Chapter 886: Chapter 886 - Taming the Fifth Year - Attrition - Explosive Healing 3

The seeds were designed for rapid growth...

Normal plant seeds took days or weeks to germinate. These took seconds.

They had been enhanced through elemental manipulation until they could exploit any available moisture to fuel explosive growth.

And the Amphibian was covered in moisture. Its entire skin wellness consisted of maintaining high surface hydration.

Perfect conditions for aggressive germination.

The seeds sprouted on contact. Tiny roots penetrating into the outer layers of skin. Tiny shoots reaching upward toward sunlight. Small, but growing. And multiplying as the Mantis launched more seeds in a continuous barrage.

Min observed the development instantly with narrowed eyes. "Damn," he muttered loudly enough that Ren could hear even at a distance. "I knew you’d eventually force me to deal with this properly."

It was an admission that while Min had worked on mitigating the weakness to wood, he still hadn’t reached the point where he felt confident against that element completely.

The Amphibian attempted using a water layer to drown the seeds before they could establish themselves, a technique that would work against ordinary plants requiring air as much as moisture.

Yet wood mana drained water... That was the fundamental relationship.

The logic was sound, create a film of water over the surface that was thick enough to prevent oxygen from reaching the germinating seeds. Suffocate them before they could take root.

But these seeds had been activated with wood mana, and water imbued with mana no longer functioned the same way. Now it was liquid energy for them rather than a drowning hazard.

The water that should have killed the seeds instead nourished them. Accelerated their growth beyond what ambient moisture alone would have provided.

It was a feedback loop working against the Amphibian in ways that Min clearly hadn’t fully anticipated. And its small wounds made the situation worse, the more light it used to heal the damage the small wood attacks, the more energy it provided to the plants parasitizing it, with their growth accelerating in response to abundant resources.

Stop healing and accumulate damage. Continue healing and feed the parasites. Neither option was good.

And the more the plants grew, the more moisture they absorbed. The more moisture they absorbed, the weaker the Amphibian’s water-based abilities became.

Not only healing efficiency would drop... Explosion potency would decrease.

Min’s expression shifted from confident to concerned as he watched the plants spreading across his beast’s body. He’d prepared for wood, yes... Had developed the explosive defense specifically to counter, but likely not for this much.

Or so many may have thought...

But the Amphibian wasn’t defeated. Far from it.

Min hadn’t practiced only defensive explosions during his months of preparation.

The first localized explosion had been only the preamble, a proof of concept demonstrating the effectiveness of the technique Min had refined during months of experimentation.

But Min wasn’t a person who contented himself with small victories when he could execute something considerably more dramatic. Finch and Theodore knew this about him from only looking in his eyes.

The Amphibian inflated in a sudden action, with its transparent skin changing color from within as secretions redistributed throughout the massive body. Not localized concentration at an impact point but complete saturation, with every centimeter of surface preparing simultaneously for a reaction that would make the previous explosion seem like a firecracker compared to a real bomb.

The transformation was visible even to spectators in the distant stands. The Amphibian’s body, which normally had a translucent quality showing hints of internal organs and fluid circulation, became opaque.

Ren recognized what was coming in a fraction of a second before it occurred, but fortunately it was enough time to order the Mantis to retreat somewhat farther to avoid collateral damage.

But Ren didn’t freeze before the demonstration of power. Instead of retreating and regrouping conservatively, he made the decision to double down on the wood attack despite that meaning spending the Mantis’s mana much more aggressively and riskily. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

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