Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 425

Chapter 425: Chapter 425 - Tamers War - Impact

The explosion gradually cleared, revealing a transformed battlefield.

Sirius gasped after the tremendous effort, feeling how every fiber of his being protested against the power he had channeled. Knowing the cost of maintaining fusion any longer, he decided to cancel it immediately.

That way he would still have some energy to jump in shadows and try to escape, as long as enemy beasts had been badly wounded and couldn’t follow him at full speed.

But retreating had to wait, he wanted to make sure he had achieved something significant. If the Lion was near death or dying, perhaps it was worth trying to finish the job before fleeing.

When visibility returned completely, his heart sank.

Unfortunately, the Lion was still standing, though it was quite wounded. Its golden fur was stained with fluids that could have been blood or dispersed energy, and several deep wounds marked its left flank.

But it had survived, and Sirius could see why.

The Man o’ War had energy absorption, and that had helped it regenerate damage using the dark mana from Sirius’s attack impact itself. Additionally, the Scorpion’s black-purple armor was almost completely destroyed, but had been barely sufficient to keep the fused creature standing during the most critical moment.

However, Sirius noticed something more: the purifying force of his attack, the light energy from his tiger, had affected Kharzan’s corrupted beasts so much they were disintegrating.

He couldn’t see it, but it had even affected Kharzan directly through the connection with his Lion. The enemy tamer looked pale, as if something fundamental had been altered in his bond with abyssal beasts.

On the other hand, there was more bad news for Sirius.

What Kharzan’s army beasts had achieved with their counter-attacks was not to win the power struggle but to significantly diminish the power of Sirius’s ultimate strike. Approximately half the lesser monsters that had supported the Lion were eliminated, but the farther from impact, the less damage the remaining ones had received.

Kharzan’s army didn’t have too many abyssal soldiers yet, being less than 5% corrupted ones, so most weren’t affected by purification.

Sirius hesitated whether he should try to bring down the Lion completely before the front beasts and tamers recovered.

Perhaps he could do it with a shadow jump that positioned him for a direct attack... but then it would be much more difficult to escape without energy for another maneuver.

In the end, thinking fast again about what his daughter represented and that he mustn’t allow them to reach the bridge pushed him to take the risk.

He began charging a wind and light attack, combining elements he had handled all his life and learned to balance during decades of training.

Then he jumped in shadows directly in front of the wounded Lion, appearing at close combat distance where his attack would have maximum impact.

The Lion lifted its claws too. Both were struggling to push their bodies, the Lion and him.

It was a desperate gamble for Sirius that bet everything on one last decisive blow to take away just over half of Kharzan’s power.

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While Sirius charged his final attack, Kharzan had realized something disturbing about his opponent’s power.

The energy emanating from Sirius’s light was strange, different from anything he had faced before. He felt deep repulsion toward the purifying energy, as if something in his corrupted being instinctively rejected that influence.

But worse still, the Scorpion and Man o’ War felt extremely weak in proximity to the explosion of so much of that ’purifying’ power. His Simurgh’s corrupted link beasts were also anxious and affected, though to a much lesser degree due to their distance from the epicenter.

Faced with the reality that his corrupt beasts were fundamentally vulnerable to the type of energy Sirius wielded, Kharzan made a drastic decision.

Just as Sirius was about to release his last powerful attack at point-blank range...

He decided to absorb his Lion. The beast was serving as a shield for the army, and despite this meaning he would lose quite a few troops to Sirius’s frontal blow...

The reabsorption was instantaneous and allowed violent and chaotic energy to enter the ranks. The fused Lion-monster dissolved into pure energy that flowed back toward Kharzan just in time.

Sirius saw, exhausted, the enormous impact of his power, and also saw his target be sadly missed.

Valdris, observing from his position beside Kharzan, immediately saw the opportunity ahead.

Sirius was panting, drained from using so much power, weakened by multiple high-level attacks, and now compromised in an exposed position right in front of the wall destroyed by his final attack.

"We should finish him now!" Valdris shouted.

Kharzan didn’t hesitate for an instant at his ally’s suggestion.

"Kharzan will advance toward the bridge without approaching the castle," she had argued, "and if Yino enters the territory, they’ll attack this very castle first. Retreating to Selphira’s mansion would actually be safer for me than staying on this ’the next front line in line’."

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