Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 90

"Halt!" one shouted when he saw Ren climbing the slope. "What the hell...?"

"It’s the lucky mushroom boy!" another guard recognized him, his expression transforming from surprise to anger. "Why were you prowling in the lower levels. This time you really...!"

The wall behind Ren exploded.

The hydra emerged from the dust like a nightmare made real, its two heads covered in blood from the beasts it had devoured along the way.

One last effort. One final sprint.

Ren had finished climbing the slope, having gained ground on the beast despite his exhaustion as the beast wasn’t in much better condition than him.

"Run! It’s a gold rank hydra!" Ren’s voice cracked with desperation and fatigue.

The guards exchanged skeptical looks.

At this level, barely 150 meters deep, the idea of a gold rank beast was as absurd as finding a dragon sunbathing in the academy garden.

"Impossible," whispered the supervisor, his expression changing from disbelief to horrified recognition. "A diamond hydra. But they live more than a thousand meters deep..."

The guards barely had time to process his words when the supervisor grabbed his arm, his ice penguin partially manifesting.

The hydra roared, the sound making the mana lamps crack. One of its heads turned toward the guards while the other kept its gaze fixed on Ren.

The other two guards instinctively backed away. Their beasts, an earth bear and a rock mongoose fully manifested. Both beasts were bronze rank 2, their power significant in normal circumstances but dwarfed by the terror before them.

"Block the entrance!" ordered the supervisor while pulling Ren backward. His voice carried the authority of someone used to commanding in crisis situations. "We need to evacuate!"

Knowledge flowed while Ren observed the guards’ beasts. Earth and rock control... The supervisor’s ice penguin, silver 2, was also a beast with ranged control capability.

’Maybe they’re prepared for dead abyss beasts, to contain hordes,’ Ren understood.

The placement of the checkpoint, the specific combination of beasts, it wasn’t random.

They’re designed for the very unlikely case of a horde; hordes only come from the dead abyss but loose monsters from the hordes are rarely found in the caves too... that’s why they fear hordes in the caves.

’But they must only be here to buy time while reinforcements arrive if dead abyss’ beasts ever filter into the caves. To block the path.’

"Wait!" Ren resisted when the supervisor tried to drag him further back, an idea crystallizing in his mind. "Don’t take me yet! Your ice, you can use it to slow it down!"

"What?"

"The slope!" Ren pointed to the ascending tunnel while the other guards began controlling earth and rock barriers. "If you freeze the climb it’ll be harder for it to scale!"

The supervisor hesitated only for an instant. "Hydras shoot light rays don’t be an idiot and come...!"

"Look!" Ren pointed. "Its movements are slower. It only has about ten minutes of energy left at this height, it won’t waste power on rays!"

The supervisor evaluated the suggestion in an instant. His penguin fully manifested, beginning to cover the steep climb with a thick layer of ice.

"More ice!" shouted Ren. "It needs to be thick enough!"

The ice layer grew as they ascended, becoming thicker with each breath from the penguin.

"Now!" he ordered his subordinates. "Block the entrance!"

The earth bear and rock mongoose created layered barriers, compacted earth reinforced with rock formations.

The sound of rock being pulverized approached. The hydra was breaking up the slope a bit to get better footing.