Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 427

Chapter 427: Chapter 427 - Tamers War - Opportunity

Hedda felt a shiver down her spine that had less to do with the heat of the attack than expected.

By covering Lyanna with her body she had received the worst part of the fire attack, but her Corrupt Burnt-Wing Bee Queen had protected her back from direct heat, so that physical sensation wasn’t what had bothered her most.

What had disturbed her was something more subtle but equally unsettling: a sensation of purification that had accompanied the attack.

She couldn’t know it, but Director Ignatius’s contribution to the last bombardment had imbued the fireball, result of combined effort from several fire and wind tamers, with traces of purifying power that Ren had unknowingly injected into the director’s phoenix during their encounter, just as he had with Victor.

Being a small part of the general attack, the phoenix’s purifying effect wasn’t too strong, but sufficient for Hedda’s abyssal beast to feel uncomfortable and slightly weakened. The sensation was like having ice water poured slowly down her spine while standing near a bonfire... a contradiction that made her corrupted energy recoil instinctively.

But she found it a somewhat interesting feeling.

When she looked at Lyanna beneath her, she realized the girl had received burns on parts she hadn’t been able to cover completely.

When her beast appeared, it always generated an unpleasant sensation for most people, and this time was no exception. Lyanna had been as close as possible, so surely that had also affected her.

The attack’s damage had affected her considerably, but mainly she was in shock. The girl’s eyes held that thousand-yard stare that came from experiencing something her mind wasn’t prepared to process.

Although Hedda decided not to blame herself entirely...

’So, second battle for you, right?’ she thought with a bit of pity and some more exasperation. ’How can it be true that you have real experience when the first hit leaves you this altered? Little liar...’

Hedda had seen this before, young tamers like herself who confused training exercises with real life threatening situations, who pondered they were ready until the moment actual death came calling.

Lyanna trembled, her eyes wide as she stared into space as if she couldn’t understand how they had gotten there. Her breathing was shallow and rapid, the classic signs of someone whose nervous system was overloaded by trauma.

But Hedda, always ready to find advantages even in the worst circumstances, immediately saw an opportunity in this situation.

With the excuse of taking the girl back to be healed and calmed down, she could perhaps go to the rear guard and escape enemy fire for longer.

If Lyanna was healed and recovered her composure, she could heal other soldiers who had lost regenerative capabilities, so she had real value in the back lines... unlike herself.

A healer, even a traumatized one, was worth preserving.

Then she could take advantage of Master Vex’s gift collar and pass as unnoticed as possible, avoiding them realizing she had a fire resistant abyssal beast so she could stay wandering in the rear line without attracting attention.

The only thing she had to achieve was obtaining permission from her squadron leader to take Lyanna to the rear guard.

Hedda searched for her while they remained under constant bombardment. More wind and water users counter-attacked enemy strikes, it seemed they had finally found the response tempo, but flames continued heating the environment to dangerous levels.

When ice from counter-attacks met the barriers, it exploded into sharp fragments that whistled through the air, creating a secondary hazard that forced everyone to stay low. And that purifying sensation in the fire appeared every three or four attacks, making her beast writhe uncomfortably within her each time. ƒгeewёbnovel.com

Anyway, Hedda was lucky not to be hit full-on again and finally found the squadron leader supporting defense with a wind wall.

’Don’t you dare "stabilize" quickly, idiot Lyanna.’

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