Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 78

The mushrooms in his hair pulsed weakly in alert.

"Who is it?" he asked, his voice betraying some of his exhaustion from the intense cultivation session.

"That doesn't matter," a female voice answered from the other side. "Could you open for a moment?"

Ren quickly looked around the room. The containers were sealed, Shadow Stalker skins stored away, work area dismantled. But the smell... a mixture of poisonous fungi and decomposing tissues still lingered heavily in the air.

"Who are you?" he insisted, buying time while considering opening a window to clear the suspicious scents.

"It will only take a moment."

"It's... it's very late and I'm not presentable," Ren responded, his exhausted mind trying to process the situation. "Could it be tomorrow?"

There was a pause, barely a heartbeat...

The tone changed.

"Open the door, fungus," Luna's voice cut through the silence, cold and direct. "I need to talk to you."

Ren froze. Of all people...

"Luna," he tried to make his voice sound firm despite the exhaustion. "I was about to take a bath..."

"Can it really not wait until tomorrow?"

"No."

Ren looked around the room with desperation. Everything was stored, but the smell... And he was shirtless, covered in sweat, his veins still glowing faintly from the mana manipulation...

"Luna, it's really not a good time..."

"You have ten seconds," her voice didn't change tone. "After that, my wolf will find another entrance."

As if to emphasize her words, Ren felt the shadow wolf's presence manifesting on the other side of the door. The mushrooms in his hair pulsed more strongly.

"Five seconds."

No choice. Luna didn't seem like someone who made empty threats.

Ren opened the door.

Luna stood there, her shadow wolf partially manifested in the shadow beside her, her blue eyes studying him with clinical intensity. Her gaze traveled over his bare torso, stopping at the veins that still glowed weakly with residual mana.

"Interesting," she murmured, gently pushing him to enter the room. Her nose wrinkled slightly. "Though the smell is... peculiar."

"Luna, please..."

"Sit," she ordered, closing the door behind her. "We need to talk about what really happened during the expedition."

The mushrooms in Ren's hair pulsed with resignation.

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"Where were you when the tent fell?" Luna began while her wolf materialized more clearly, its eyes glowing with a silvery tone that seemed to pierce through him.

"In the hole with everyone else... but you already know that," Ren responded, noticing Luna's gaze focusing on his chest when he answered, studying his mana patterns.

"When did you leave?"

"When you saw me do it... This is strange, you already know all this, why..."

Ren stopped, understanding something...

Mana flowed subtly to Luna's eyes, a pattern that Ren knew generated in some beasts that used enhanced perception.

"Why did you leave?"

"I wanted to verify something."

"Lies," Luna didn't change her expression, but her wolf growled softly. "The real reason."

Ren blinked, surprised by the certainty in her voice. The mushrooms in his hair pulsed while analyzing the mana flow in Luna's eyes again.

"I wanted to help," he answered carefully, observing her reaction.

This time Luna didn't contradict him, but her eyes glowed more intensely. "How did you know you could?"

"I didn't know," Ren measured each word, noticing how the mana in Luna's eyes fluctuated with each response. "I just... had an idea."

"When did you see Zhao?"

"A while after leaving the hole."

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