Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 145

Nine days of frenzied writing in his scarce free time had resulted in a notebook filled with detailed diagrams and meticulous explanations.

Ren smiled as he handed "Ecology, Characteristics, Abilities, and Cultivation Techniques for Digger Beetles" to Taro, his mushrooms pulsing with quiet pride.

"I want you to be the first to read it," he said while his mushrooms pulsed softly. "Though it’s not entirely complete."

Taro flipped through the pages with reverence, his eyes widening with each diagram he found. There was information about tunnel patterns, living crystal composition, fortification techniques... things he hadn’t even known his beast could do. Each page seemed to hold another revelation.

"Not complete?" he asked without taking his eyes off the book. "There’s enough information here to take a good while reading."

"It only goes up to silver rank 3," Ren shrugged. "I want to include the path to gold, but I need a bit more time to have that information."

"How long?" Taro finally looked up from the book.

"Don’t worry," Ren smiled while his mushrooms pulsed. "It’ll take you some years to reach silver 3, so I’ll have plenty of time to complete it. And I only need one more day to know..."

Taro froze, his mind suddenly connecting the dots.

Tomorrow.

Tomorrow Ren would complete his hundred days of cultivation.

Tomorrow he would reach bronze rank 1.

"Tomorrow you’re going to...?" Taro didn’t complete the question, but he didn’t need to.

"Yes," Ren nodded while his mushrooms pulsed with anticipation. "Tomorrow I’ll know."

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On the 25th day of the fifth month, exactly 145 days after entering the academy, Ren held the final bronze crystal, a golden mushroom and the intelligence rune in his hands.

The moment he had been waiting for had finally arrived.

Liu, Taro, and Min held their breath, clustered around his bed. Their beasts manifested partially, responding to their anticipation.

Lin leaned against the doorframe, apparently relaxed but missing no detail, and ensuring her student wouldn’t try to escape training afterward.

"Here we go," Ren murmured while his mushrooms pulsed softly.

He absorbed the materials and...

The glow was... subtle.

So subtle that for a moment his friends wondered if something had gone wrong.

The previous days of his normal cultivation had been much more intense. This seemed almost anticlimactic in comparison.

"Did it work?" Min leaned forward, his snake mirroring his movement. "Your mushrooms seem to... glow a bit more?"

"Maybe?" Liu squinted, his night bat vision manifesting. "It’s hard to tell if they’re glowing more or if it’s just the morning light."

But Ren was smiling.

In his mind, new evolution paths unfolded like an intricate map. He could see routes that were previously nebulous, patterns that extended all the way to...

"I can see it," he whispered in awe. "Up to gold rank 1... the path is clearer now."

"But what changed?" Taro asked, searching for any visible difference. "I don’t see any new manifestation in your beast."

"In my body I don’t notice much difference," Ren admitted. "But my spore is no longer a simple cloud of inactive tiny seeds. It’s a complete beast now, a real fungus."

The four exchanged expectant looks.

"Could you...?" Min made a vague gesture.

"Show you my beast at bronze rank 1?" Ren completed the question. "I suppose so. Though I don’t love losing the knowledge flow from my head..."

"Most of it is memorized already, isn’t it?" Lin commented from the door. "And I admit I’m curious too."

Ren nodded and, for the first time in a long time, separated his spore from his body.