Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 146

"But one day my influence will touch every corner of the world! I'll know all the secrets! All of them!"

Something about seeing the tiny creature claim it occupied such an enormous expanse of land made the boys unable to stop laughing.

"Hmph!" the mushroom puffed its cheeks in what had to be the most adorable display of indignation they'd ever seen. "Ren! I don't want to be in front of these mocking troglodytes! I'm going back inside!"

Without waiting for a response, the small mushroom vanished, returning to Ren's body. The mushrooms in his hair sprouted and pulsed once more with their characteristic glow.

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"Well, what now?" Liu asked, still smiling at the spore's peculiar evolved personality. "How are you supposed to get your second beast?"

"It's simple," Ren smiled while approaching the hydra egg resting on his desk, its crystalline surface catching the morning light.

"Simple?" Min arched an eyebrow. "Nobody outside the highest-ranking nobles and the royal family knows about methods for a second contract... It can't be simple."

The words died in his throat when Ren touched the egg.

Fine mana roots, invisible to the normal eye but clearly perceptible when gathered in large quantities, began emerging from Ren's body. They spread like an ethereal web, each strand pulsing with power.

"What's...?" Taro stepped back as the roots completely enveloped the egg, creating a cocoon of pure energy.

Before their astonished eyes, the egg began transforming. Its physical form gradually dissolved, becoming a pure mana construct that pulsed with its own light. The air around it seemed to bend and twist.

There was no ceremony. No rituals or magic circles like in the stories they'd heard.

The egg, now a brilliant mass of pure energy, simply flowed into Ren's chest as if it had found its natural home.

"Impossible!" Lin moved closer to see better. "That's not... that's not how..."

Ren's body glowed for a moment, the energy reorganizing and settling within him. When the glow faded, the mushrooms in his hair had disappeared.

In their place, new features began manifesting.

His teeth visibly sharpened, becoming similar to a predator's fangs. His ears lengthened and refined, taking on a more reptilian aspect. Crystalline claws replaced his nails, and scales of crystal blue began covering his arms in elegant patterns that caught and reflected light.

"Is that... an iron rank hydra?" Liu whispered in awe.

"So this is what it feels like," Ren flexed his hands, observing how light played across his new scales. "The knowledge was correct."

"But..." Min shook his head, his snake coiling anxiously. "Getting a second beast is supposed to require special rituals! Potions! Preparation!"

"Only if you do it like in the stories, but we don't even know the true traditional way," Ren smiled, his new fangs gleaming. "My spore uses a different path, their own one."

"Your mushrooms?" Taro looked around. "Where are they?"

As if answering the question, the mushrooms briefly reappeared in Ren's hair before vanishing again.

"I can alternate between manifestations like any normal double tamer," he explained, shifting between forms with ease.