Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 916

Chapter 916: Chapter 916 - Taming the Fifth Year - Attrition - Final Battle - 15

Everything was going perfectly for Orion because on his side the creatures kept converging toward the academy and other strategic locations like the castle. Directions serving multiple purposes in the broader plan he had prepared.

But it wasn’t 100% perfect, just because his brothers complained extensively in the message about what constant crystal operation had implied for them personally.

Headaches coming from sustained concentration in maintaining a hard balance between the opposed elemental hearts.

It was a litany of complaints filling a good initial portion of the message. Protests about difficulty and demands for recognition for the huge sacrifice they were making in service of their older brother’s plan.

Orion set those sections aside with a disdain he didn’t attempt at hiding when alone.

He thought with irritation that he could continue operating control over seven crystals for considerably longer than the simple day both his brothers had endured. And his task as leader was objectively heavier in terms of mental complexity and mana load than what they faced with only four crystals.

"Lazy idiots," he murmured aloud with a tone having both criticism an fraternal exasperation.

It was a characterization he applied freely when the brothers didn’t meet the standards he considered minimum acceptable for those sharing with him the blood of a family supposed to produce only exceptional individuals.

But then, after a moment of permitting his criticism to express itself unfiltered, he admitted with reluctant honesty that Magnus and Dorian were genuinely useful when truly needed.

They could complain, protest and require annoying supervision... But they executed when it mattered.

They’d kept Julius contained for a complete day despite the difficulties they claimed having. A result justifying the tolerance of their minor deficiencies.

It was a balance Orion had learned to accept during years of working with many other individuals who rarely reached standards he imposed on himself except for his late brother Sirius.

Perfection was unattainable when depending on others inferior to you. So you had to settle for sufficient competence and manage their weaknesses through appropriate supervision to get at least some secondary work done.

The twins were adequate tools...

Not exceptional but functional. And in operations of this scale, having functional tools in critical positions was worth tolerating their whining.

Orion rose from the position where he’d been seated for hours monitoring the information flows the crystals provided. His movements revealing stiffness coming from prolonged immobility.

He stretched briefly to relieve tension in his muscles that had remained static too long. Then began walking toward a deeper section of the ruin.

He descended through the only possible passage. Steps confident not requiring light to navigate the stairs perfectly.

He eventually arrived at the penultimate chamber. An area that had been designated for a specific purpose that few even of his followers knew.

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