Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 473

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Chapter 473: Chapter 473 - Taming the Golden Light - 2

Bloodwyn’s corruption manifested like a storm.

Three out of his six beasts fused with him simultaneously. Dark wings spread from his back while his hands grew elongated claws designed for more than simple combat.

The absorbed power from the Deep Leviathan Worm flowed through him, and when he released it, the very air seemed to recoil.

The corruption struck the mushroom field like a tidal wave of darkness.

Where the golden fungi had pulsed with gentle light, now there was only withering shadow. The creatures of light dissolved on contact, their radiance extinguished as if they had never existed. The mana they had consumed was canceled by the one in the darkness, leaving behind only scorched earth.

"Effective," Hagen commented, watching the destruction.

But as the corruption cleared the field, something unexpected happened.

The claw-shaped tree, which had been fully covered in the golden mushrooms, didn’t lose all of them. Instead, the remaining fungi began to glow with higher intensity, their light becoming so bright it was painful to observe directly. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

And then the claw closed.

The gnarled branches, which had been spread wide like an open hand, contracted. The movement was smooth and purposeful, clearly the action of something ’alive’ rather than the random falling of a dying plant.

"That’s not a tree," Hagen said.

"No," Bloodwyn agreed, his enhanced senses analyzing the structure with growing interest. "It’s clearly not."

The vampire spread his wings and launched into the air, his Vulture Vampire Beast granting him aerial view. Wind gathered around him as he channeled his beast’s power, creating a focused tornado that struck the closed claw with devastating force.

The structure was torn from the ground with a sound like a mountain breaking.

What emerged from the earth remained neither a tree nor a hand. The claw was connected to a massive sphere buried deep in the soil, its surface covered in the same golden mushrooms that had been spreading through the forest floor. But where the fungi on the ground had been destroyed by Bloodwyn’s corruption, these seemed to draw power from the sphere itself.

"Impossible," Bloodwyn muttered, studying the structure with worry and new respect. "Nothing in this ring should have accumulated so much mana to resist my power."

The sphere pulsed with energy. This wasn’t a natural formation, it was something that had been growing, accumulating power for decades, perhaps centuries.

"Unless it’s been here for a very long time," Hagen realized, pieces falling into place.

The closed claw began to move again, this time with clear hostile intent. Spores erupted from its surface, creating a cloud of golden particles that drifted toward the soldiers.

"Scatter!" Hagen shouted, his survival instincts overriding his fascination.

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The battle that followed was weird and unlike anything Hagen had experienced.

The claw-arm-sphere moved with intelligence, its defense and attacks powerful. Each time Bloodwyn struck it with corruption or wind, it resisted, learning from the assault and adjusting its next attacks accordingly.

"It’s studying us," Bloodwyn growled, pulling back from another failed attack.

The sphere’s surface had changed, becoming more resistant to corruption with each exchange. The golden mushrooms that covered it seemed to block the dark energy and convert it into common mana, which was absorbed and made the structure glow even brighter.