Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 280

In the reserved stands of the high nobility, three figures observed with radically different expressions.

Kassian Goldcrest narrowed his eyes with disdain. "Pathetic," he murmured. "The mushroom boy sends his lizard to die and runs behind like an idiot. The commoner doesn't even know the basics of beast combat... The spy I have following him is a waste of time."

His fingers drummed rhythmically on the armrest of his seat. The ineptitude he was witnessing from the commoner with noble aspirations was personally offensive to him.

It was a waste that such a subject had a second beast. The fungus in the first place didn't count as a beast, so he was practically just a common tamer...

'What nonsense!'

Several seats away, Sirius Starweaver observed with an indecipherable expression. Unlike the other noble who openly showed his disdain, Luna's father seemed intrigued. He remembered the child with an unusual beast being interrogated that day, but his expectations had been betrayed...

"Terrible tactical choice," he finally commented, his tone neutral but his eyes intensely fixed on the small tamer. "I wonder if I expected too much."

Finally, Selphira Ashenway showed an enigmatic smile. Unlike her companions, she didn't seem surprised or annoyed. Her eyes, sharp as a hawk's, followed Ren's every movement with interest.

"The boy has guts and heroic desires," she said softly, almost to herself. "Or knowledge that we don't possess."

Her long fingers interlaced over her lap as she leaned slightly forward.

"Either way," she added with a spark of amusement in her eyes, "this will be... revealing."

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Ren ran after his beast, spear in hand, prepared to attack...

The enormous stone monster, detecting the small creature approaching, activated its attack mechanism. Using elemental control over earth and the brute force of its hind legs, it launched itself into the air, diving directly toward the small hydra.

"It's finished!" someone exclaimed from the stands. "The Lurker is going to bite that lizard!"

Ren adjusted his position, preparing the spear. Many assumed he would try to throw it when the monster opened its mouth, but those who knew the Stone Lurker's anatomy knew that would be useless; the beast palate was reinforced with a structure as hard as the external rock itself.

Yet at that critical moment, Ren did something unexpected.

With a quick gesture, he retracted his hydra, which transformed into a beam of light returning to his body and merging with him. Instantly, the transformation began: reptilian scales appeared on his skin, his muscles grew slightly, and the characteristic translucent armor materialized over his chest.

But the most surprising thing was happening with the Stone Lurker in mid-air. Its trajectory changed abruptly, as if an invisible force was pulling it. Its head was thrown back, its mouth opened wider than normal, and...

Its belly was completely exposed in front of Ren!

"What the hell is happening?" Confusion was widespread among the spectators.

The answer came an instant later, when the effort to hold onto the beetle broke the invisibility of Min's amphibian. The translucent beast suddenly appeared on the shoulder of the Living Tunnel, Taro's enormous beetle that had been waiting behind the Big Stone Lurker the entire time, invisible thanks to the amphibian's ability.

The beetle was pulling the monster's head back forcefully, having reached its back during those initial five seconds of apparent immobility.

"They were there the whole time!"

"The amphibian made them invisible!"

Now Ren had a direct shot at the Stone Lurker's cloaca, the most vulnerable point of its anatomy that connected directly to one of its vital organs.

With gritted teeth, he concentrated all his energy.

The veins of light glowed intensely throughout his body, channeling maximum power to his muscles already reinforced by the hydra.

With an explosive movement, Ren launched the modified proboscis. The projectile shot out with devastating force, cleanly piercing the Stone Lurker's cloaca and boring all the way to its brain, which retained the same basic anatomy as its lower-rank counterpart.