Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 915

Chapter 915 - Taming the Fifth Year - Attrition - Final Battle - 14

But resisting wasn't the same as being immune.

And the beam's push was enormous. Constant pressure forced Julius backward even when he planted his feet and used his fusion power and his allies pushing to maintain position.

It was an energetic flow practically making advancing impossible without spending resources at a rate that would exhaust the fusion long before he could escape completely.

And when the purple energy merged too… The beam wasn't just blocking. It was actively pushing him back. Slowly but persistently.

The purple energy now, the mutant beasts, the timing, and there was something else strange.

The same mutant creatures that had been entering like mad had stopped suddenly shortly after they reached the final chamber's tunnel. Didn't continue the pressure just a bit before when the beam began. Instead their nearby energy signatures now waited at the tunnel's entrance as if awaiting the energy confrontation's result without directly participating.

That was when Julius realized finding the ruin just now perhaps also hadn't been a coincidence.

His group of seekers had finally felt it when they approached the place, the strange sensation of the ancient chamber's mana. But the distance had seemed odd to him.

It was very close to it.

It had been a great help in avoiding getting lost in the final parts of the purple crystal labyrinth. The crystallized roots of corruption created a maze that would have taken days to navigate without a beacon to guide them.

But they'd realized they weren't that far from it. So why hadn't they sensed it before? The mana signature should have been detectable from a much greater distance if the chamber was actually open.

Julius understood then that perhaps someone had unblocked the door just recently. Letting energy out... Had they done it with some crystal barrier or high-level beast ability like the biofilms of spiders able to prevent mana passage?

It didn't matter… If it was true then this confirmed everything.

It was a cumulus of behaviors almost absolutely confirming this was an orchestrated trap rather than an unfortunate coincidence.

The creatures were being controlled by something or someone who'd calculated exactly when to let them lose.

Let Julius and the others advance just far enough to commit. Block them at the final moment when they were most invested. Force them to either exhaust themselves breaking through or retreat and abandon everything they'd gained.

Classic tactical manipulation. And Julius had fallen for it completely.

Unfortunately, recognition that this was deliberate didn't provide an immediate solution to the problem they faced.

Julius was still blocked by the beam and consuming energy just by resisting. And his fusion's clock continued running slowly but surely towards a point where his power would exhaust and leave him vulnerable.

If he couldn't overcome the beam in the next minutes, he'd literally run out of the time window necessary to escape the ruin while still having the capacity to move independently.

And then he'd be trapped in the depths of this cave again. Except this time he'd be in a critical state requiring others to carry him instead of being able to contribute.

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