Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 331

Having to share the room with Jin and Kai continued to be a major annoyance for Han. But for another six months, he had no choice.

"Feel what?" he responded automatically, recovering his facade.

"Don't play dumb, it was very intense," Jin insisted. "That... thing. Like someone was crushing the air."

Han shrugged, the gesture calibrated to convey casual dismissal. "Probably some professor conducting an experiment."

"An experiment?" Kai narrowed his eyes. "That was more than a simple experiment. It was... tense, aggressive."

"Shall we investigate?" Jin proposed, practically bouncing with anticipation. "It could be something interesting."

"Fine... Let's do that," Han responded, accompanying his answer with a smile as false as it was perfectly executed. "You two go ahead. I'll put something away and catch up with you."

The two ex-bullies, much less arrogant since their flash defeats by Ren but still impulsive, nodded and headed toward the perceived origin of the disturbance.

Han watched them leave...

The small scroll in his bag seemed to weigh a ton. His sister's life against his emerging conscience. His duty against what he was beginning to recognize as right.

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In the Gray Wing room, Ren sat up abruptly in his bed. The mushrooms in his hair pulsed with an urgent rhythm.

"What's happening?" murmured Taro, in response to his friend's sudden movement.

Ren didn't respond immediately. His senses, sharpened by the combination of his beasts and the relic, captured something that went beyond the physical. A presence, a combination of energies he had never experienced before.

Unlike Han, whose perception was limited to identifying the type of energy, Ren could discern much more. The specific energy signatures, the unique characteristics of the beasts involved, even the interactions between the different layers of power.

"A golden lion of unknown level," he murmured, his eyes distant as he analyzed the sensations. "And something else... a simurgh. But corrupted by..."

His mushrooms continued processing the complex information flowing through his enhanced senses.

"Against... a black turtle and a white serpent, fused in a different way. And there's more... qilins. Three of them, a tiger and a phoenix."

"What are you talking about?" asked Min, rubbing his eyes.

Ren blinked, slowly returning to immediate reality. The mushrooms in his hair dimmed slightly as he refocused on his friends. "There's a confrontation in the academy. It feels like a demonstration of powers, most far superior to gold 1."

He rose, approaching the window. In the distance, barely visible, he could distinguish a gathering of figures near the main gates. The night air carried faint traces of the energies clashing there, like the scent before a lightning storm.

"I think the Goldcrests are here," he continued, his voice strangely anxious. "And they're not alone or friendly."

"The Goldcrests?" repeated Liu. "You mean Klein's family?"

Ren nodded.

"They must have come for Kassian and Klein after what happened in the tournament," he deduced. "But there's something else. The abyssal energy I purified from Klein during our combat... it's present in another individual, but much stronger, more integrated."

Min and Taro exchanged concerned looks.

"Should we do something?" asked Taro, his voice low and worried.