Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 218

Though there shouldn’t be anything beneath them in this area.

The conversation drifted toward plans for the following day. The boys’ voices gradually lowered as fatigue from the day’s exertions settled in their bodies.

Gradually, the conversation died down, replaced by deep breathing and occasional snores. The night silence was only interrupted by the distant sounds of local fauna and the crackling of the central fire that remained lit all night.

Ren was about to fall asleep but still awake, his mushrooms pulsing softly in a slow and constant rhythm.

It was then that he felt it.

A subtle vibration, almost imperceptible, transmitted through the skins. So slight that anyone else would have confused it with their own breathing, or perhaps with the movement of a nearby companion.

But Ren managed to distinguish it.

This vibration was different: deep, rhythmic, and above all, impossible.

His mushrooms pulsed with greater intensity while he processed what he was feeling.

It was a...

It was a...

A...

A lesser worm?

It was undoubtedly the characteristic movement of a lesser worm, but there was something fundamentally wrong with it.

Worms shouldn’t be able to come so close to the surface, not in this area.

Ren mentally reviewed the subterranean geography he knew from the information that had never failed him.

Mana in the subsoil was and wasn’t distributed uniformly at the same time.

It wasn’t a simple sphere of mana that behaved the same throughout the world. It was more like an icosahedron from which one of the points originated in the city’s castle, with distribution lines that followed specific geometric patterns.

The main mana arteries, those major veins that transported energy from the depths, followed predictable trajectories based on the points of this geometric figure.

Between these arteries, the figure’s lines connected in a straight and direct manner, but because the earth is a sphere, the subsoil’s mana was distributed in a gentle but constant slope as it moved away from the points.

Surface mana, on the other hand, radiated from the light abyss crack and acted as a force field, like an atmosphere that lost its strength as it moved away from that crack. Like a belt for the planet...

An incomplete shield.

At the current depth Ren could perceive it, so close to the surface of the iron ring, there shouldn’t be enough mana to sustain a worm for long, not even a lesser one.

The closest point with the appropriate concentration would be about two hundred meters underground, a considerable distance for a displaced worm… even if it was being pursued, it wouldn’t have gone that far.

Or at least not a big chance to be escaping perfectly vertically for more than 50 meters.

Those 200 meters should also always be free of mana, without exception.

’I need more information before causing an uproar; it’s not trying to reach the surface anyway,’ he decided, remaining alert and focused on the movement. _{freёwebnovel.com}