Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 154

Ren was the first to try. Used to moving through the small secret tunnels he’d made, it wasn’t difficult for him to slip through.

Min followed, though he had to contort a bit to pass. His snake remained manifested, being long but not thick managed to slide through the crack with relative ease, its scales gleaming in the strange light.

Taro stayed looking at the opening with apprehension.

"I’m not going to fit," he declared after studying it. "I’m more... robust."

He tried to wedge a shoulder in, but his broad back made passage impossible. After several frustrated attempts, Ren began to laugh.

"What’s so funny?" Taro growled, still stuck halfway.

"I don’t sense anything dangerous here... Deactivate the shell," Ren suggested between laughs. "Your beetle is in your body so it can pass, but you don’t need to keep all its characteristics manifested."

Taro blinked in surprise before blushing. The shell on his back vanished and, indeed, he managed to slide through the crack without further problem.

He was about to make an excuse and say it wasn’t fear, but the words died in his throat when he saw what awaited them on the other side.

Where they thought they would find more rock, earth, or crystal, rose a metallic wall that glowed faintly under a layer of ’antiquity’ (rust).

They were standing on a structure of the same material, some kind of strange bridge or walkway with pulsing blue lines that extended from the crack to the wall.

"Look up," Ren whispered, his voice filled with wonder.

Min and Taro raised their eyes and held their breath.

The metal wall curved upward and to the sides, forming what appeared to be part of an enormous sphere. The same was true when they looked down.

Other bridges similar to theirs connected the crystallized mana wall to the structure at different levels and angles.

All this existed in a space between the crystal barrier they had just crossed and another similar layer that seemed to contain the entire structure, as if the metal sphere had been built in a pocket between two worlds.

"It’s... it’s..." Taro couldn’t find the words.

"Impossible," Min completed, his voice barely a whisper.

Ren was already walking toward the end of their bridge, where a rectangular shape was distinguishable in the metallic wall. As he approached, the details became clearer, it was definitely a door, with engraved symbols that resembled ones he had seen before.

"It can’t be," Min observed the other walkways. "All this has been here, under the academy, this whole time?"

"What is this place?" Taro asked, still trying to process the scale of what they were seeing.

Ren extended his hand toward the door.

"I don’t know," he responded while his mushrooms pulsed with anticipation. "But we’re going to find out."

Ren’s fingers barely brushed the door’s symbols when a bluish glow emanated from them. His mushrooms responded immediately, pulsing with the same strange light.

An overwhelming sensation coursed through his body, as if something ancient and powerful was communicating directly with his mind. Suddenly he understood, every action needed to open the door unfolded in his consciousness like a map.

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An increase in his perception...

And a realization.

"Down!" Ren grabbed Min and Taro, roughly pulling them to the metal floor. "Don’t move."

"What...?" Min began to ask, but Ren silenced him with a gesture.

"Someone followed us," he whispered, his eyes fixed on the crack they had entered through. "They have a beast that can ’jump’, do short teleportations."