Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 968

Chapter 968: Chapter 968 - Taming Harassment

Arturo arrived from the south with the army that couldn’t move at Zhao’s pace, plus some reinforcements he had been gathering by messages since the situation started shifting.

He came fast but without unnecessary urgency, at the methodical pace Julius associated with his middle brother when he had been managing something complicated for a long time and had been managing it well despite how it looked from the outside.

Jaw set and eyes clear. The specific composure of an Arturo who had already spent everything that could be spent on emotion and was now operating purely on the remaining structure underneath it.

He positioned himself beside Julius and read the flow in two seconds.

"The southern wall army is compressing the defensive perimeter," he said. "Here?"

"Here’s where I need you."

Nothing else passed between the two brothers, because nothing else was necessary for the immediate function. The words that weren’t said were words both of them already knew.

What followed was work.

Not the kind with large moments or decisive exchanges that could be described in a sentence. But the kind made entirely of small correct decisions executed consistently, one after another, without interruption and without acknowledgment.

Arturo and Julius coordinating the barrier, trading pressure back and forth as reserves demanded. Zhao and his group covering the flanks, keeping the edges from folding inward. Selphira directing from a position that acknowledged her current limits without pretending they didn’t exist, placing herself where her experience and her read of the flow were the contribution, not her output. Healers rotating between the people who needed it most.

The rotation held. Not perfectly...

Functionally, which in this context was the only kind that mattered.

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Orion’s dissenting army and the portion of the southern wall force that had joined them pushed north after being driven back by the mutants.

A second large contingent of soldiers who had been holding the south abandoned their section of the wall entirely to establish a new line much further inside city territory.

The defensive perimeter contracted, leaving the majority of the Goldcrest zone outside its coverage.

It was territory that would need work afterward, reclamation, damage assessment, the slow process of taking back what had been ceded again, but it was territory without enough civilian presence now for the decision to carry a cost in lives that couldn’t be afforded.

The evacuation had been effective when it mattered.

The new perimeter was a little over two thirds of the original. Two thirds was sustainable with what they had. The original size hadn’t been.

Julius verified it, adjusted the weak points, and looked west.

The real problem had arrived in the form of information, which was how the hardest problems always arrived, not as something you could hit, but as something you had to hold in your mind and keep turning over until the shape of it became clear enough to act on.

Orion had been moving his pieces while they were moving theirs.

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