Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 346

Chapter 346: Chapter 346 - Tamer’s Memory Brain

Selphira led Ren through the corridors, moving away from the usual student traffic until they reached a small private meeting room.

The space was furnished with a dark wooden table, two high-backed chairs, and an unlit fireplace whose embers had long grown cold. The walls were covered with intricate runic patterns that Ren understood through his mana flow, sophisticated privacy enchantments that would ensure their conversation remained completely confidential.

"Take a seat," Selphira ordered, her voice maintaining the formality Ren had expected, though he detected an undercurrent of something else... Perhaps curiosity? Concern?

Once they were settled, the elderly Ashenway went straight to the point, surprising Ren with her first question.

"Can you purify anyone who’s gone abyssal?" Her eyes gleamed as she studied him. "For example, if I were corrupted by such energy, could you cleanse me?"

Ren blinked, momentarily thrown off guard by the serious topic. Weren’t they going to talk about his mushroom escaping? About what happened last night? But he quickly focused on the pressing question she’d posed, sensing its importance.

"No," he responded honestly, shaking his head. "I couldn’t."

Selphira leaned slightly forward. "Explain."

Ren organized his thoughts carefully before continuing, remembering the sensations he’d experienced during his encounters with abyssal corruption. "The abyssal energy... from what I’ve been able to observe, I believe it behaves like a parasite to mana. It attaches to it, uses it to amplify its own potency. Someone with more mana naturally seems to have a higher aggregate power when they somehow accept abyssal energy into their body."

The mushrooms in his hair pulsed softly as he worked through the logic of information he’d gathered when confronting it those few times. "I believe I could eliminate abyssal energy from someone in the Silver rank if I used all my power... but someone like you?" He looked up at her with genuine concern. "It would be absolutely impossible right now."

Selphira sighed, her expression becoming more thoughtful as she processed this limitation. Her eyes seemed to age another decade with the weight of whatever possibilities had just closed before her.

"Then... can you teach me the technique?"

Ren hesitated, struggling with how to explain something he barely understood himself. The words felt inadequate for the complexity of the process. "It’s something instinctive. I’m not sure I could replicate it in a system different from my own."

The elder arched an eyebrow, a flash of something shrewd gleaming in her eyes as she leaned back in her chair. "I too have a ring at my disposal. I can cast light similar to yours. I know you’re using the third ring and its power in some... unique way."

Ren’s heart accelerated, but remembering his confession to Han and the trust that moment had built between them, he decided to be honest here as well since they seemed to have already discovered his secret.

"My mushroom... it ate the ring without my permission," he admitted, noticing how Selphira tensed slightly.

"The form of my mushroom, which is actually more like a giant network, is what helps me configure the light ray. I use the absorbed ring’s power, but I have absolutely no idea how to translate it to mana flow for you, or how to recover it from inside my beast even if we wanted to."