Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 997

Chapter 997: Chapter 997 - Taming Torpor - 4

Orion walked.

Not running. Walked... the steady movement that communicated exactly what it was meant to communicate: that there was no hurry because the result had been calculated and the calculation didn’t depend on the speed at which one approached it.

Each step measured. Each step saying the same thing the barrier said, the same thing the scattered bodies across the hall said, that the space between where he was and where Julius and Arturo lay on the floor was his space, and he was crossing it at whatever pace suited him.

His brothers moved with him beneath the barrier’s coverage, keeping pace without needing to be told, focused on the maintenance work that kept the fire-and-water surface rotating steadily rather than on anything that would have required them to run. And maybe it was Orion’s consideration with them too.

Many tried to stop the advance...

Yang fell first. A beam that arrived while he was covering three soldiers who were shielding the way too and would have gone down earlier without that coverage.

Lin caught him before the floor received him completely, using the arm that wasn’t already compromised from the fighting outside. She lowered him carefully, assessed him and returned her attention to the room without changing her expression in any way that would have been useful to Orion.

Wei held longer. He had been managing damage since before the ceremony started, awareness that came from decades of knowing exactly what his body could sustain and for how long. The beam that finally reached him did so with enough energy that the question wasn’t whether he went down but only when he would get back up.

Orion moved with the deliberateness of someone who had the barrier and therefore had no reason to hurry. Each step chosen, each target evaluated.

The tamers at the margins who could still move tried to intercept him. Two doubles found positions where their techniques would have had the right angle and under other conditions would have represented a real threat. The beams reached them before their attacks could complete. Before the barrier surface so much as flexed.

Ignatius tried with the Fire of his fusion.

It was a genuinely powerful offensive attack, the kind that justified the rank he held and the years of development behind it. The fire-and-water barrier received it and neutralized the damage when the twins’ fire recognized fire from another source and absorbed it before it could become a problem.

Ignatius set his jaw and tried again from a different angle.

The result was the same.

Zhao and his beast still carrying Taro and Liu also rained attacks to no avail.

Orion reached the place on the floor where Julius and Arturo were.

He stopped in front of the two brothers.

The crystals rotated slowly in his right hand, not charging, not threatening, just present, like a tool was present almost as a toy when the person holding it had already decided how it would be used but was enjoying the moment.

"I’m sorry," he said, with the same cordiality that had the same origin as all the cordiality he had shown today. "But some things need to be made clear for what comes after to function properly."

The beam left his hand.

Selphira came out of nothing before it reached them.

Not literally from nothing... From the new position in the hall where the mana-suppressing artifacts had been slowly, imperceptibly relocated over the course of the battle, the same hidden space that had concealed Ren long enough for him to "jump" at the center of ceremony in time, the same space where Victor still lay without the ability to move.

They had been trying to drag that position close enough to cover Julius and Arturo before Orion reached them.

They had almost made it.

Selphira had been managing exactly where and how they moved for the last several hours, looking for any angle from which the concealed group could affect the battle without exposing themselves before the moment was correct. The answer to that question had changed the instant Orion aimed at Julius.

She stepped in front of the beam and took it on the lateral of her most crystallized arm.

The crystallization she had been carrying since the ruins responded to the impact in a way that wasn’t simply damage. It was as though the mana already integrated into her structure recognized the incoming energy and made a decision, not to resist it, not to deflect it, but to incorporate it, extending the crystal network already present in her system outward rather than absorbing the blow as raw force.

The existing formation accepted the new energy and grew from it.

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