Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 428

Chapter 428: Chapter 428 - Tamers War - Storm Queen - (1/3)

Selphira finally reached the range where she felt most comfortable using her devastating attacks.

It wasn’t that she couldn’t launch them earlier or at greater distance than the novices she was about to face, (after four hundred years of experience, her range surpassed that of any other tamer present), but rather a matter of pure efficiency.

Launching mana at long distances was considerably more costly than using it in the immediate vicinity, and besides, she had a powerful beast that required proximity for maximum effectiveness: her Gold 2 White Serpent.

It wasn’t the most powerful beast or the most defensive she had, those titles belonged to the other creature in her arsenal, but it was the one that moved fastest and created the most "waves" of destruction when deployed appropriately.

That’s why Selphira preferred using it to overwhelm this kind of soldier formations when they were densely grouped.

And for this tactic, she didn’t use the serpent’s natural body. It was a large target, so even if fairly resistant... in the end it would receive too much unnecessary damage if exposed directly to concentrated enemy fire.

Instead, she always gave it ice armor.

The armor was a way to expand even further the damage area, adding spikes and angular forms specifically designed to deflect attacks. While the armor remained intact, the creature received almost as much defensive resistance as her turtle, but became a terrible threat to entire armies.

First of all, attacking it directly could backfire because attacks could ricochet and damage their own people around them.

Charged attacks in such proximity were also a bad idea since they couldn’t be charged in time, and the few that managed it sent ice fragments flying in all directions like shrapnel.

For all the above reasons...

Many people began summoning their Silver-rank beasts to send them into direct attack...

But found themselves with the same problematic situation.

They could hardly damage ice reinforced with power and mana density greater than their forms, and many large beasts ended up being thrown back by the impact force when overwhelmed by the enormous armored creature, crushing the very soldiers they were trying to protect.

Selphira wasn’t on her first rodeo or even her tenth. She was a true veteran of more conflicts than any of these soldiers would ever manage to experience.

The accumulated wisdom of centuries showed in her every movement, every decision, every application of power. She had fought in wars when most of these soldiers’ grandfathers hadn’t even been born, had perfected techniques through trial and error across all that time.

She was unstoppable.

Even if her idea of attacking the castle and angering Kharzan hadn’t worked and the coward continued in the middle of his army, Selphira was determined to reach him.

And perhaps she could have tried to go directly toward where Kharzan was, in a straight line through all this soldiers, but reality was that not all enemies had Silver-rank creatures or large beasts she could ignore.

Gold creatures dispersed in various parts of the march were capable of weakening her armor. Many were fast, others flew, and those with specialized fire or wood attacks... ice armor couldn’t resist them as well as other elemental types.

But Selphira wanted to at least reach the height of the opened wall through the soldiers and make her own ice wall... just that, before avoiding their flow and getting ahead to search for Kharzan from one of the march’s sides.

Besides...

If she wanted the wall she would help create to be ’respected’ for a while, she first had to make them ’respect’ her by creating a bit of chaos and fear.

And despite conservation methods and efficiency, she had to consider her energy expenditure carefully.

’It’s time to rise.’

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