Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 152

Suddenly, Ren stopped. His mushrooms pulsed briefly.

"What’s wrong?" Taro halted the excavation upon noticing his expression.

"I can feel it more clearly now," Ren closed his eyes, concentrating. "One of the entrances. It’s close."

Min and Taro exchanged looks while Ren pressed his hand against the tunnel wall, his fingers tracing patterns only he could sense.

"There’s energy leaking," he murmured. "Through the enormous crystallized mana wall. It’s... different. More intense than anything I’ve felt before."

"Should we continue in this direction?" Taro asked, his Living Tunnel awaiting instructions.

"No," Ren opened his eyes. "We need to adjust course. About twenty degrees to the left and..." he calculated for a moment, "five degrees upward."

"Are you sure we want to go toward that?" Min asked nervously, his snake coiling tighter around his arm.

"I can feel the entrance more and more clearly. It’s like... a whisper calling to me."

Min felt ignored again... but didn’t argue against Ren.

Taro nodded and directed his beast to begin excavating in the new direction. Ren’s hydra joined the effort, its crystalline claws tearing through hard earth with renewed purpose.

"Well... At least, whatever’s there," Min murmured while collecting the last tooth, "must be important if it’s protected behind a mana wall."

Ren smiled while feeling the strange energy growing stronger. "We’ll find out soon."

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Luna’s cousin frowned when she saw Liu enter the food storage for iron rank students.

The place was barely used, most students uninterested in its existence.

Maybe the occasional couple of lovebirds...

’Why would someone come here alone?’ she thought while sliding silently after him.

The air grew colder as they descended. Liu constantly looked over his shoulder, as if afraid of being followed.

The cousin maintained her distance, using the shadows of old containers as cover. There was something very strange about all this, and she was determined to discover what it was.

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The other cousin had reached the mines and registered.

"Lucky mushroom’s group?" the guard checked his registry to remember the time. "Arrived about ten minutes ago."

Luna’s cousin nodded, maintaining a casual expression while signing her entry. Ten minutes wasn’t much time, in theory, they should be easy to catch up to if they were limited to the first hundred meters like all first-year students.

But after searching all the main tunnels of the first level, she had to admit she was wrong. There was no sign of them anywhere.

She stopped at an intersection, considering her options. The tunnels were quiet this early in the morning.

’Where could they have gone?’ she thought while observing the rock walls. And then an idea crossed her mind.

Her beast specialized in minerals.

If Taro’s Living Tunnel had been using its special ability to create living crystal, it would have left a distinctive mineral energy signature. And since that type of crystal was only found naturally after three hundred meters down...

A smile formed on her lips while she manifested her beast, making sure no one saw. Any use of that crystal at lesser depths would be like a bright signal pointing directly to them.

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