Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 888

Chapter 888: Chapter 888 - Taming the Fifth Year - Attrition - Explosive Pirouette - 2

Min was in trouble...

It wasn’t delicate vegetation that could be easily torn away but now rather robust vines with root systems penetrating deeply into the battle arena and interweaving in a network that covered the battlefield increasingly completely.

Some roots were now 2-3 meters deep. Others spread horizontally for 5-6 meters before diving down again. The network was becoming three-dimensional, creating a structure that was harder to push back with each passing second because destroying surface growth no longer eliminated the underground infrastructure.

Min responded with the same tricks and explosions that were almost identical but progressively smaller each time.

The pattern was clear. Each explosion consumed reserves that weren’t being replenished as fast as they were being used. The Amphibian was still generating the secretions needed for detonation, but production rate couldn’t match consumption rate when Min was forcing full-body detonations every some seconds.

It was a tug-of-war developing at a good pace that made it easy for spectators to follow the exchange of techniques and counter-techniques that escalated with each passing second.

Mantis planted...

Amphibian cleaned.

A cycle consuming resources on both sides at rates that weren’t sustainable indefinitely.

But who would have more mana at the end?

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Hundreds of minor adjustments and tactical decisions compressed into sustained high-intensity combat.

After several minutes of intense exchange, the Mantis was operating at approximately 40 percent of its base capacity according to indicators that Ren monitored carefully.

But it had cycled considerably more than 100 percent of its total mana when accounting for energy it had stolen from the Amphibian, with the incoming flow from parasitic plants providing constant supply that permitted aggressive attack expenditures that would normally have completely exhausted its reserves already.

On Min’s side, the situation was different but equally strained.

There had been multiple explosions, with each one requiring the Amphibian to spend precious secretions to remove those plants threatening to establish permanent dominance over its body. And constant maintenance of techniques to keep them away consumed resources at a rate that accumulated dangerously even for a creature with massive Gold-rank reserves.

The Amphibian had used less than half of its reserves but considerably more mana than the Mantis in absolute terms, with repeated expenditures adding up to a total exceeding what almost any lower-rank creature could have managed.

But base capacity mattered enormously in Min’s sustainability evaluation. In principle, the mana that a Gold-rank beast could contain didn’t compare remotely with what Bronze could store, a disparity that would normally make victory inevitable if battle prolonged sufficiently.

The standard calculation worked like this:

If ordinary Bronze 2 was worth 2 points of mana capacity then Gold 1 was worth 100 points, so under normal circumstances the Gold would simply overwhelm through superior reserves even if usage efficiency wasn’t particularly refined.

Ratio: 50:1 advantage for Gold rank. Insurmountable under equal skill conditions. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

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