Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 477

Chapter 477: Chapter 477 - Taming the Platinum Ring

The ’playful’ Cat roared again, a sound that now had strange echoes in the dense air of the platinum ring. Each step it took toward Zhao sent massive vibrations through the ground in this new environment.

Zhao maintained his desperate flight, but now struggled against the growing pressure of mana.

Behind him, the Giant Bear Cat accelerated, its body also gradually adapting to the new territory. But the powerful vibrations it sent through the ground were impossible to hide.

And something had noticed them.

The ground trembled with a different rhythm.

These weren’t the heavy steps of the Playful Cat... this was something emerging from below, multiple presences moving beneath the surface.

Zhao felt the change in mana before seeing it. Energy networks activating, underground communication systems lighting up like a giant neural network.

The response was almost immediate, like disturbing a sleeping giant that had sensors scattered across miles of territory. The very earth seemed to come alive, awakening to deal with the intrusion.

"Local inhabitants," he murmured, comprehension and terror mixing in his voice.

The ground beneath the Playful Cat opened.

Massive tentacles, thick as common tree trunks, emerged from the surface like plant serpents awakening from deep sleep.

But these weren’t the Carrion Sprouts he had encountered in the golden ring. These were something evolved, refined, perfected by evolutionary pressure.

Platinum Network Sprouts.

"The scavengers became predators," Zhao whispered, fascinated despite the danger.

The tentacles moved with greater intelligence, not just as reactive plants but as patient hunters waiting in their traps.

They coiled around the Playful Cat’s paws before the creature could react, and when the feline tried to jump to escape, it realized that those annoying vines that always emerged from the earth were for the first time stronger than it was.

What had been an apex predator in the golden rings was suddenly reduced to prey in this more powerful ecosystem. The hierarchy that had seemed absolute for the cat was revealed to be merely local.

The beast roared, but it was no longer the sound of a confident bully. It was the cry of prey realizing too late that it had entered the territory of something more dangerous than itself.

The struggle that followed was brutally unequal.

The Cat was fast, strong, and had all the experience of a third golden ring predator. But the Platinum Sprouts operated on a completely different level and hunted in a huge group.

More tentacles emerged with each second, creating an increasingly dense network around the trapped creature.

"They really work as a network," Zhao realized, observing from a safe distance in the heights while activating his silent flight.

In the distance, barely visible now through the saturated air, rose structures that made the previous trees look like dwarfs.

It seemed there were very few now, in much more cleared spaces.

But now he could see there was something much more complex than the simple distribution of new space: These were assemblies of Golden Noses that had evolved in symbiosis with the Platinum Sprouts.

The massive "trees", now taller and thicker, had hundreds of Platinum Sprouts connected like an extended root system. They shared energy, information, resources. The Playful Cat wasn’t being hunted by a single plant; it was being buried as fertilizer for an entire ecosystem.

The scale of cooperation was staggering. Each tree represented not just a single evolved creature, but a central processing unit for hundreds of subsidiary organisms. The entire visible landscape was revealed to be a single, vast distributed intelligence for a single "tree".

The feline’s roars became more desperate as more tentacles joined the constrictive embrace. Its strength, which had been dominant in the golden ring, was insufficient against the combined power of hundreds of plant predators working in unison.

"It wasn’t fast or strong enough to escape," Zhao murmured, feeling a strange blend of pity and relief.

The cat that had pursued him with implacable determination was now being dragged inexorably toward what appeared to be a communal mouth, a convergence of tentacles that opened and closed with a somewhat hypnotic digestive rhythm.

Soon it would be nothing more than mana nutrients for the vast organism that had claimed it.

Zhao took advantage of the distraction to put distance between himself and the feeding site.

His flight was slightly heavier in the dense air, each silent beat of his wings generating more energy than he was accustomed to controlling.

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