Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 919

Chapter 919: Chapter 919 - Taming the Crystal Hearts - 3

Orion would escape toward the ruin’s depths where overcoming a bottleneck in unmoldable terrain would be difficult...

Where pursuing would require fighting through confined spaces favoring defenders.

She needed him to stay visible. Needed him committed to surface confrontation where she could actually reach him, confident enough in his position that he wouldn’t immediately flee when she arrived.

So she was holding back... Deliberately.

Making the advance look difficult rather than easy. Making it seem like she was struggling against the army’s coordinated defense rather than merely inconvenienced by it.

Let him think she was near her limits. Let him believe the day of continuous combat had depleted her to the point where breaking through three thousand soldiers required all her remaining strength. Let him feel secure in his numerical advantage and prepared defenses.

Then strike when he was committed and escape routes were cut off by her ice.

The White Serpent continued weaving through attacks. Ice shields continued deflecting what couldn’t be evaded. And Selphira advanced meter by meter through the army’s defensive fire.

Looking tired... Looking like someone fighting at their absolute limits.

To make every one unaware that the old woman approaching was considerably more dangerous than she appeared.

She couldn’t fuse yet...

It was a risk she couldn’t take when the primary objective was reaching Orion and Victor, not demonstrating dominance over an army that was secondary to the real confrontation that mattered to her.

For the moment Orion seemed not to be retreating despite her advancing aggressively through defenses supposed to protect him.

It was behavior that was still intriguing in its lack of appropriate caution despite her acting.

Perhaps because she was alone too now and that made him underestimate her? Did he think an individual tamer without backing of her own army was a threat he could handle even if that tamer was Selphira?

It was good, but still another thing that enraged her slightly, yet something that also provided advantage. If Orion’s arrogance kept him in a position where she could reach him before he recognized his evaluation error, better for her.

Let him think he was safe. Let him believe his army and prepared defenses were sufficient. Let him stay visible and reachable.

That’s all she needed.

Selphira kept pressing directly through the army without deviating toward the flanks or attempting some maneuver that would have taken more time even though it might cost her more mana.

It was an approach that used more shields to literally run over soldiers who didn’t move fast enough to get out of the way.

The White Serpent didn’t slow for individual soldiers. It just flowed forward like an avalanche. Anyone too slow to dodge was crushed under its mass or sent flying by an impact with the ice shields protecting its body.

It was brutal...

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