Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 85

Here, a bronze beasts line reigned supreme:

The mushrooms pulsed in warning when Ren detected the first trace: claw marks on the walls, so fine they seemed carved with diamond. Knowledge flowed revealing fragments about a new species: the Deep Assassins.

The Assassins were the true predators here.

Their bodies, long and segmented but with hyper-articulated elongated limbs, allowed them to move along walls and slip through narrow tunnels, while also being covered in vibration sensors that could detect the slightest movement through the rock.

Their bodies, a matte black that absorbed all light, made them practically invisible in darkness.

But most terrifying was their proboscis. Discover exclusive content at freewebnovel

'Like a diamond sword,' Ren thought while examining one of the marks.

Knowledge showed him how the beast used this lethal tool: first locating its prey, then piercing through up to 50 centimeters of rock and its prey's skin or shell, then injecting enzymes that paralyzed and liquefied internal organs to slowly suck them out.

Their prey remained alive through most of the process.

They seemed like a nightmare born from the fusion between an assassin bug and a hunting spider, but perfectly adapted to subterranean life.

The Assassins primarily hunted deep worms and Living Tunnels, ambushing them from the other side of walls that weren't yet reinforced.

The Assassins were the reason why all other beasts at this level built reinforced refuges. _{frёewebηovel.cѳm}

But nothing was completely safe. The Assassins always found a weak point, a thinner section, an unprotected angle.

Some abandoned tunnels showed signs of ancient battles: walls perforated with small holes, abandoned galleries full of circular marks, remains of emptied shells.

Ren had less than fifteen minutes before the mana overloaded him.

It was time to advance, but first he would need to ensure no killer decided to add him to its core collection.

All creatures here were practically blind. Ren intensified the glow in a pulse that illuminated the distance just once.

A movement caught his attention.

A killer emerged from its hiding place, its nearly 5-meter body moving with disturbing grace. Four white and opaque eyes, blind, glowed faintly against Ren's light, while specialized antennae tested the air for prey.

The beast slid along the wall without making the slightest sound, its legs detecting vibrations that revealed the position of creatures in nearby tunnels. Its proboscis, normally folded beneath its head, briefly extended, it was almost as long as Ren was tall.

'A perfect predator,' Ren observed fascinated as the Assassin located its prey: a greater worm excavating too close while expanding a tunnel.

The beast calculated the exact angle to pierce the rock.

With a fluid movement, the Assassin pressed its proboscis against the wall. There was no sound as it drilled, the precision such that it barely displaced material. In seconds, it had created a perfect hole toward its victim.

Ren was grateful the killer was too far away and occupied to hear his steps.

He stopped in a small side cavern, acutely aware that any wall could hide a lurking killer. The mushrooms pulsed showing him it was clear.

The air was now much denser, charged with mana that made breathing require conscious effort. Ren advanced cautiously, each step measured while his senses adapted to the increasing pressure.

The prepared shadow stalker tentacles absorbed some of the excess mana, but he could still feel it accumulating in his system.

The tunnels here didn't look like rock caverns anymore, transforming into something that seemed less mineral and more organic.

The connecting tunnels and walls had a yellowish tone that melted into deep oranges, as if he were entering the entrails of a colossal beast.