Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 955

Chapter 955: Chapter 955 - Stubborn Tamers Crisis

Orion’s army...

The more ’reliable’ half had entrenched itself close to the castle using the reinforced stone wall formations, they had losses that Orion had already estimated from what he could observe and that fell within the margins he’d calculated for this phase.

Acceptable numbers, given what they’d accomplished.

The other half... The portion that had chosen the least convenient possible moment to develop independent opinions, had broken formation and was now fighting alongside an army that should not have arrived yet. Their techniques were directed against a section of the flow of mutants that was moving with more autonomy than Orion had been actively directing.

He noticed that last part just now.

He pulled his attention to the crystals that were currently serving as the anchors for his barrier and checked the control of the corrupted beasts out of habit.

The flow was present. The connection was there, responsive, functioning.

He made a small adjustment to the mutants’ direction, a slight correction to test the response.

They moved accordingly. No problem.

He held the observation for a moment, then settled it. He’d been underground managing the tunnel for a sustained period, occupied with a level of technical focus that didn’t leave room for active management of the flow, just the previous ordered direction.

But they had changed the target direction slightly not long ago.

The mutants had continued attacking on their own momentum, which was what they did when no active direction was applied. That was their nature, not a malfunction. The connection had been intact the whole time.

He told himself this with the certainty of a man who has reached a conclusion and sees no reason to revisit it.

He redirected the flow in full.

The mutants that the new defender group and the defectors had been contending with shifted direction, pressing with their full numbers toward the new army and the traitors alike, pushing them back from the castle’s perimeter, away from the ground Orion still controlled.

It wasn’t an optimal outcome, the pressure on the city castle and the academy would ease with the mutants partially reoriented, and that respite was a cost he’d have preferred not to pay.

But it recovered the territorial position the remaining half of his army could regroup well first and breathe.

He considered the full accounting of what today had produced.

Selphira and Victor had made it out. That was the entry on the balance sheet that carried the most weight, and he wasn’t going to pretend otherwise or dress it up as something more favorable than it was.

They had escaped. That was the fact.

But Selphira had come out of the tunnel as a woman who had burned through everything she had, her body compromised from crystals as Victor had been first, something she had no way to recover from.

Victor wasn’t in any fighting condition either. Whatever threat either of them represented in their current state was negligible compared to what they would have been at full capacity.

They were no longer useful as fighters. They were no longer a factor he needed to plan around.

They were just hostages.

The second step of the plan had never depended on them to begin with...

It depended on joining the groups waiting on the other side of the city, the ones who had stayed out of today’s engagement by deliberate order, the ones who had watched from a distance while the first moves were made, the ones who would now march alongside what remained of his army with the weight of the crystals behind them.

It depended on clearly making the situation obvious for the people and demanding what’s theirs.

With that force and with the mutants under control, the castle would have no workable choice but to yield the remaining ruins and the access they represented to start his full connection with the crystals.

And then the final step.

But he knew there was a small extra problem he had to address fast first...

Orion thought briefly about the strange boy and allowed himself to feel something that wasn’t quite satisfactory.

With time the kid could find a way to reverse crystalisation...

So he needed to finish him now.

The beam fluctuated. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

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