Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 95

The presence vanished suddenly, as if it had never been there.

Except Lin knew that sensation. Her crane partially manifested its wings and slightly elongated her legs while following the trail, her beast's enhanced perception tracking the faintest disturbances in the air.

A flash of movement to her right, someone appeared for an instant before vanishing again.

"Interesting," Lin murmured. The jumps were becoming more abrupt now, almost clumsy in their haste. Whoever it was, they were more concerned with speed than subtlety.

Another flash, this time to her left. Lin adjusted her course, her crane helping her maintain the pace while analyzing the pattern of movements.

"Why the rush?" she whispered while following the flashes of movement, her experienced eyes noting how each jump seemed to cost the fleeing figure more effort than the last.

The chase led them toward a more densely wooded section.

"Clever," Lin had to admit it. "But not enough."

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The girl staggered upon appearing on the last branch before the administrative building.

Her jumps had become clumsy, each transportation consuming more energy than the previous one.

'One last jump,' she thought while focusing on the director's window. Her beast protested, too many jumps in too little time, especially after the strain in the depths.

"Your jumps are terrible today, I didn't teach you to..." The director began, having perceived her long before she arrived.

When she appeared inside the office, her legs gave way beneath her. She held onto the edge of the desk to avoid falling.

The director rose alarmed. "What happened?"

"I saw..."

"Sit," the director quickly moved a chair toward her, his concern evident. "Are you hurt?"

She shook her head while dropping into the chair. "Just... tired. Too many jumps."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes... I was following the mushroom boy as you asked," she began, her breathing still agitated. "He entered the caves this morning."

"The caves?" the director frowned, but then remembered. "Ah, Wei is out today," his expression becoming understanding, "economic troubles. Wouldn't be the first student trying to recover their investment working extra in the mines... But I don't see how that's reason to..."

"It's not that," the girl shook her head. "They carried him out unconscious. Mana poisoning."

"What? How far did he go..."

"But that's not the important part either," she interrupted. "Yino," she managed between heavy breaths. "An agent... in the caves. About 300 meters deep."

The director straightened immediately.

"WHAT?! The boy went down to three hundred meters," the director almost shouted, then visibly controlled himself. "And you followed him there?"

The girl nodded. "Partly yes, I don't know how far down he fell... They carried him out unconscious, it must have been coincidence. Then ending in mana poisoning. But that's not the important thing."

"Of course it's important," the director began pacing the office. "You were supposed to just watch a normal boy from a safe distance. If something had happened to you, your father would have..."

"The Yino agent had two beasts, a gold rank hippogriff and an abyssal scorpion."

The director stopped dead. "Explain."