Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 896

Chapter 896: Chapter 896 - Taming the Fifth Year - Attrition - Chaos - 2

Min was also practically the only one among Ren’s close companions whom Ren helped most directly in being so... creative with his cultivation approach.

Most called it reckless, an accusation that was born when Min didn’t follow Ren’s novel methods to the letter but experimented with small variations that could have unpredictable consequences.

Already following Ren’s method was a novelty in principle. Why be crazy enough to change even that?

But Ren knew that the characterization of "reckless" wasn’t completely fair.

Min wasn’t as foolish as he appeared superficially. Behind the apparent chaos was a mind processing information carefully before making those decisions that others dismissed as impulsive.

Min always consulted multiple sources before implementing changes to his beasts’ cultivation. He read ancient texts that most considered too obscure to be worth the effort. He spoke with instructors like Wei about minute details of elemental mechanics. And most importantly, he came to Ren himself frequently to discuss potential results that one change or another could entail in a species based on its mana patterns and development.

They were conversations Ren genuinely valued because they forced logical articulation of principles that would otherwise remain implicit in his mind. Having to explain why a certain approach was risky required breaking down reasoning in ways that clarified his own understanding as much as it educated Min.

Ren had explained repeatedly during those discussions that the path to maximum potential was narrow. Narrower than most appreciated. And that he himself didn’t know everything because his knowledge didn’t extend far enough yet to map the complete territory that beasts could eventually reach.

Platinum for now. He didn’t even know the best routes in Diamond rank.

"You could get stuck while watching others ascend to Diamond in the future," Ren had warned during one of the more serious conversations they’d had. "Small changes might have an even greater effect in subsequent phases that I myself don’t know about. I can assure you that certain variations won’t affect your potential until Platinum, which is the maximum rank known to me for now. But I can’t guarantee that those same changes won’t create limitations in phases beyond that."

It was honesty about his own knowledge’s limits. An admission to a friend that even having had access to enormous information, there were territories remaining unmapped because that same information hadn’t explored every possibility.

Ren gave examples frequently to illustrate the concept in ways Min could fully understand the implications. The Wolverine was a perfect case for demonstration. A creature that could be cultivated with specialization in a specific element, a choice that would change development style but wouldn’t affect the fundamental capacity to reach superior ranks as long as the beast’s base was respected.

"As long as the species’ foundations are maintained correctly," Ren had explained, "the Wolverine will reach Platinum regardless of which element you choose as primary. That’s true according to what I know so far. But if I later learn that only certain elements can reach Diamond or greater potential, then perhaps only the multi-elemental line was correct all along, for example. And we would have limited growth by choosing something else without knowing it."

It was the uncertainty making experimentation risky even when it seemed safe based on present knowledge. Because you didn’t know what you didn’t know until it was too late to reverse decisions made years earlier.

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