Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 150

"Exactly at 100 meters!" Ren announced as they headed toward the tunnel he used for his habitual escapes. His mushrooms pulsed with excitement, casting dancing shadows on the rough walls. "The perfect entrance."

"Perfect for what?" Min asked, but Ren was already turning at the familiar corner.

"This way," Ren didn’t answer and slipped through an opening so narrow that Min had to hold his breath to pass.

"How did you even find...?" Taro stopped at seeing the network of tiny tunnels stretching before them. "Oh. So this is where you always sneak off to."

"Sorry," Ren laughed while advancing through a passage that seemed specifically designed for someone his size. "It’s just..."

"It’s just that you didn’t want us following you to your secret vein to keep all the crystals for yourself," Min completed the sentence, his snake hissing with mild indignation.

"Not really, it’s because you would..."

A distant sound, like claws against stone, made them all freeze.

"What was...?" Taro began, but Ren silenced him with a gesture.

They advanced silently until reaching a crack in the floor. The darkness emanating from it seemed deeper, more threatening than that of normal tunnels.

"My secret route," Ren whispered, his mushrooms pulsing softly. "I’ve been going down here every day."

Min peered into the abyss. "But... the monsters..."

Another sound, like something dragging itself across stone.

"You guys don’t know how to avoid the worms... one wrong step and you attract them," Ren nodded. "That’s why I couldn’t bring you before, but now we are stronger." Continue your journey with freewebnovel

Taro and Min exchanged looks.

How had Ren managed to spend an entire semester moving among monsters without being detected? The question hung in the air, but neither dared to ask it for a long explanation here.

"We’ll go down to two hundred meters," Ren began descending through the crack with the familiarity of someone who has made the journey dozens of times. "That’s where I need your help, Taro."

The descent was tense. Every brush of clothing against stone seemed amplified in the darkness. The tunnel twisted like a snake, sometimes so narrow they had to move sideways.

But Ren was super happy that the mana didn’t feel as oppressive anymore.

"Living tunnel beetles like yours start at three hundred meters," Ren explained when they finally reached their objective. "Which means..."

"That if we make a tunnel here," Taro completed, his eyes gleaming with understanding, "and coat it with my Living Tunnel’s crystal..."

"The lesser worms won’t be able to enter," Ren nodded. "The crystal is too hard for them."

"It’ll be a safe tunnel..." Min understood.

"And better yet," Ren smiled while his mushrooms pulsed with anticipation, "they’ll think a lower-level creature was expelled and is hunting due to lack of mana. No common monster will risk entering once it’s finished."

"Are you sure about this?" Taro asked.

"Completely," Ren pointed toward the school’s direction. "I can feel the ruins more clearly here. We just need a direct path..."

"A secret tunnel," Min whispered. "Straight to whatever’s under the school."

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Ren guided them to another "slide" that led to a solitary zone at 200 meters and asked them not to move to avoid vibrations, while he decided for the perfect location.

"That’s a good place to start," Ren manifested his hydra, its crystalline scales gleaming with his mushrooms’ light in the darkness. At his side, Taro’s Living Tunnel emerged in all its glory.

The two beasts began excavating with supernatural efficiency.

"Taro!" Ren called without stopping coordinating his hydra’s movements. "Have your beast start coating the walls! The worms won’t take long to notice the vibration!"

Min moved nervously while watching the first meters of tunnel form. "Shouldn’t we...?"