Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons

Chapter 889 – Taming the Fifth Year – Attrition – Explosive Digestion

Ren was calculating a victory that would come slowly but inevitably, a scenario where the Mantis would remain even if in critical condition from exertion but where the Amphibian would fall first under the assault of constant drainage that would eventually exhaust even its Gold-rank reserves.

The Amphibian’s reserves would hit less than 40% capacity, at which point the explosions would fail. The healing would slow. The defensive options would collapse.

And then the Mantis, despite being at 20-25% reserves itself, would finish the Amphibian through the roots that the weakened beast couldn’t adequately defend against.

The arena will still be full of wood element growth.

It would be the ideal result that would leave Min with considerably reduced chances for the subsequent confrontation thanks to his second beast also receiving some attacks from the Mantis before it was destroyed or withdrawn.

Advantage sustained going into the Luna confrontation that still waited.

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The strategy was working perfectly. The Amphibian could no longer keep the plants at bay even with explosions because they were too weak against such density and lushness.

The vegetation had reached critical mass. Too many plants interconnected and deeply rooted. Clearing surface growth no longer solved the problem because the underground network persisted stronger, ready to regenerate within seconds.

Min was going to lose his first beast…

That was what the numbers indicated. That was what logic and calculation suggested was inevitable.

But then something changed in the battle’s dynamics.

The Amphibian exploded in a sudden release of energy that wasn’t an offensive detonation but rather a pure manifestation of mana being liberated from a restriction where it had been contained.

The digestion of the beasts it had consumed before had finally completed, with the absorbed beasts converting into highly usable power.

It wasn’t a gradual process… It was a flood. It was timing that Min had waited patiently, knowing around how long it would take for the amphibian to get this buff and planning the exchange so that the boost would arrive at the moment where his last hidden card would matter most.

Min had realized to keep exploding despite the losing efficiency in mana, had known that if he could maintain combat for just slightly longer, the window of opportunity would appear right when Ren thought victory was secured.

He wouldn’t expect what the peak in mana would let the amphibian do.

Ren wouldn’t recognize the attack until it was too late to adjust appropriately. Because Selphira didn’t either…

By the time it became obvious, the strategic calculations would already be obsolete.

“Rain Dance!” Min shouted with enthusiasm that was absolutely genuine, with the satisfaction of seeing a complicated plan execute perfectly resonating in every syllable.

The Amphibian channeled a huge quantity of mana into a single technique, with the equivalent of 10 percent of its total reserves releasing in less than one second. The rain dance was a massive expenditure that would have completely exhausted a lower-rank creature but that the Amphibian executed as if it were a reasonable investment rather than a desperate gamble.

That was more energy than the Mantis’s total mana contained in its body at any given moment.

More than the Mantis had started the battle with.

All of it, deployed at once.

The sky above the arena darkened as moisture condensed with impossible speed. And then it began to rain.

Not a gentle drizzle. , but deluge. Ren observed the development with perplexity about the logic of the specific technique Min had chosen. “Are you insane?” he murmured while processing the implications, his mind running through the consequences that would follow.

Yes, it had temporarily fed the plants more water than they could absorb for immediate use, providing brief relief from the parasitic drainage. And yes, it had destroyed the plants close around itself through a roll that took advantage of the flooding and osmotic pressure that burst water-saturated cells.

But now the entire arena was completely soaked. Saturated with humidity that was literally ideal for the growth of more plants.

The Mantis wouldn’t absorb too much energy to do anything dramatic like exploding from taking it. It would simply leave the water in the plants to feed them as they grew and multiplied, extracting only the same manageable quantity of mana for its own body to keep within safe cycling limits.

Within moments more seeds would begin germinating again. And with that much water available they would grow even more aggressively than before, with invasion and absorption accelerating to the point where the Amphibian would lose control completely.

It was a massive tactical error that made no sense coming from Min, who had demonstrated sophisticated understanding of elemental dynamics throughout the entire battle. Unless Min had a final card that converted water saturation from disadvantage into advantage, a technique requiring exactly this kind of setup to execute effectively.

But it was too late to do anything about it regardless if Ren realized now…

Min played his absolute final card. A capability that would not have been possible for a tamer with only one Gold Amphibian as a beast but that became feasible when you remembered a critical detail about Min’s construction as a tamer.

Min was a double.

He had a second Gold-rank beast that shared buffs with the Amphibian and that provided access to elemental control that the creature alone could never have manifested.

The Amphibian began absorbing large quantities of air through its mouth and emanating cold through its skin, with temperature descending precipitously as a technique that shouldn’t have been possible executed with a control born from extensive practice.

The descent was rapid and accelerating, not gradual cooling but active heat extraction from the environment as the Amphibian’s body became a living freezer radiating sub-zero temperatures in all directions.

Seeds that had welcomed the deluge began absorbing moisture voraciously, their structures expanding visibly as they prepared for explosive growth that would exploit the abundant resources. Roots extended. Leaves emerged. The entire arena was transforming into a garden inflated by water that was about to leave the Amphibian’s control.

But not yet…

And every drop was mana-infused. “I’m sorry, Ren,” Min called with a voice carrying a playful apology mixed with the satisfaction of a chess player executing a checkmate that the opponent hadn’t seen coming. “But grandmother Selphira gave me permission and her blessing, so I’m going to have to borrow your special element for a moment.”