Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 900

Chapter 900: Chapter 900 - Taming the Fifth Year - Attrition - Balanced Chaos - 2

Having eliminated fire and water as viable attack options, since both would just feed the serpent’s reserves, he evaluated the remaining elements the Wolverine had available.

Earth seemed the most promising option.

It had no inherent weakness to fire or water... Wind and wood would then be weak too.

Earth versus the dual water-fire system seemed to have no obvious interaction disadvantage. Earth was just... Neutral.

Solid. It didn’t burn easily, didn’t dissolve easily. It just was.

And that neutrality was exactly what made it effective. The serpent’s sophisticated elemental balance system had no special mechanisms for handling earth-based attacks beyond the standard options any Gold 1 beast possessed.

Light and darkness could serve as well. They operated in a different spectrum from the thermal and fluid interactions water and fire dominated. But they were slightly more expensive in mana terms for comparable effectiveness.

That additional cost came from the complexity of manipulating energies that most beasts couldn’t naturally perceive or interact with.

And Ren preferred conserving that investment considering Luna’s battle still waited after Min’s defeat. That confrontation would almost certainly require extensive mana usage.

He didn’t want to face it without much of it...

So he decided to defeat Min with earth for now. It was an element providing sufficient power without draining reserves he needed preserving for the exam’s final phases.

He could experiment more with the new interactions between other elements and the serpent’s balance system later. When competition pressure didn’t limit how much he could invest in pure curiosity.

And couldn’t scold Min for taking large risks without warning or asking him. Even if it was slightly hypocritical given Ren’s own tendencies...

The Wolverine changed its approach completely, abandoning any other elemental techniques in favor of earth manipulation that exploited mass and density as primary weapons.

Rocks emerged from the ground and launched toward the serpent with velocity converting fragments into dangerous projectiles. It was bombardment forcing constant evasion instead of the tranquil absorption the serpent had been enjoying until now.

Earth wasn’t absorbed... The serpent’s dual-element system had no mechanism for processing solid matter imbued with earth mana like Liora had. Fire and water were energies that could be integrated into the rotational balance.

Earth was just... mass.

Heavy, solid, unyielding mass that had to be dodged or deflected.

Min responded with the creativity that was characteristic of his combat approach.

The explosions he generated weren’t simply defensive but also offensive and he was also using them to propel the serpent in unexpected directions, with calculated detonations providing thrust complementing the creature’s natural mobility.

It was an innovative use of a technique that most would have limited to direct attack. Transformation of limitation into advantage through intelligent application.

But the tactical situation shifted immediately. From sustainable attrition through absorption to resource-depleting evasion through continuous movement.

Every dodge cost stamina, every deflection cost mana and the Wolverine had vastly deeper reserves to sustain the bombardment than the serpent had to sustain the defense.

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