Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 999

Chapter 999: Chapter 999 - Taming the Last Breath

Min had arrived just on time...

"Stop!"

Ren was about to refuse and jump anyway but...

"Selphira’s sacrifice has to be worth what she asked of us at least." Min said it quickly, and there was pain in his voice and the weight of someone who understood exactly what they were asking for. "That’s what she asked of me. That whatever we did would be worth it, and we still have time since Hikari is already there."

His voice found its footing.

"I have an idea for dealing with the barrier. But I need your help executing it."

Ren looked at Min.

Then he noticed that Hikari had been mentioned and looked quickly in the direction where he could feel the faint, artifact-muffled signature of her mana, the Royal Giant Firefly, barely perceptible through the concealment, but findable if you knew the texture of it.

He found what he was looking for. The position, the angle and the distance.

He didn’t say it out loud because it would have taken longer to explain than to understand.

"No detours," said Ren. "Fast."

Min was already talking.

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Selphira had stopped trying to get up.

Not because she had given in. Because the honest assessment of what her body could do right now excluded getting up from the list of available options, and Selphira had spent enough years being honest with herself in difficult situations to know better than to spend energy contradicting a correct evaluation. Staying down to hold on for one more second was the more efficient use of what remained. That was the calculation, and it was the right one.

The crystallization had reached her cheek.

It didn’t hurt. Which was almost worse, because it meant the body had stopped protesting in the way it protested when something was going wrong.

She thought about the young people of this generation.

Ren, who had been awake now enough for her to feel his mana again, a strong system that had been down and had come back, a bit different from before but present. Julius and Arturo, who were probably in a safe position by now thanks to Kira as agreed upon. Leonel, who had reached the same end she was approaching now, much earlier.

From the essences she could still sense and their locations, they were close to finishing whatever they had planned.

Fortunately, they all seemed too occupied to ruin it by doing something dumb like trying to save her.

She smiled... It was harder on the left side, with the crystallization that had climbed from her neck settling into the muscles of her cheek, but possible. A small asymmetric smile, which was fine. Symmetry was overrated.

And it was worth it.

She had lived long enough. More than long enough... More than anyone she had record of, and asking for more after everything she had been given was the kind of greed that was easy to recognize in others and difficult to see in oneself. It was enough.

It had been more than enough for a very long time, and she had simply been reacting to things too fast to stop and acknowledge it.

The process was about to pass the point of no return, she could feel it without feeling it somehow.

Selphira closed her eyes.

’What a waste of...!’

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