Weakest Beast Tamer Gets All SSS Dragons novel Chapter 559

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Chapter 559: Chapter 559 - Taming the Fourth Year: Lin’s Punishment

Lin landed as always with feline grace, but her eyes were never as wide with genuine shock.

Ren had achieved the impossible.

He had dodged her completely.

"How...?" Lin murmured, her voice carrying huge disbelief.

"I didn’t have a choice," Ren replied, his voice firmer than before.

The emotional intensity had unlocked something in his connection to the encysted seed. It wasn’t his full power, but it was more than he’d had access to in months. More than he’d dared hope for.

The wind had helped position his body faster, redirected him at crucial moments, while the earth sank into simple formations he could generate quickly to alter his trajectory. Basic techniques, but executed with a precision born of desperation.

Lin didn’t have boosts that were too high, they were actually slightly lower than Ren’s even at his now half power. But that was in her base form. Now that she was fused and tripling her statistics, she was operating at more than double Ren’s base capabilities.

Not only that, but Lin had always been much stronger than her statistics suggested in one-on-one fights against humans. It was her specialization, what could be called her genius aspect.

Even with a Bronze beast, she had been recognized for her skill in personal combat.

Now that her statistics surpassed Gold Rank tamers, she was a true calamity.

Ren, on the other hand, had much less experience. Although he was managing a partial fusion right now, it didn’t even double his base statistics. He had been facing Lin for more than three years, learning with careful attention to every detail. But he was still far from reaching her level, not even when he had his fungus had he truly defeated her in fair combat.

Seeing her in slow motion when he’d had more than double his current base perception, using intense elemental control to exploit her range disadvantages back when he was surpassing her and becoming more arrogant... that hadn’t been a true victory of learning at all.

Rather, it had been a shortcut that was now collecting its true detrimental cost.

Lin walked around him in a slow circle, studying Ren with an intensity she hadn’t shown in their years of training. Not even when he’d had access to his full power.

Each step was a potential promise of violence.

"It doesn’t seem to be the case..." she murmured, her voice now altered by the transformation, deeper and more resonant. "For a moment I thought you had recovered your full power. But your mana signature is still pathetic compared to your old maximum fusion."

She continued moving in a slow circle around him, each step still threatening to launch her toward him. Her claws left small holes in the rocky ground, gouging stone as easily as paper.

The scraping sound set Ren’s nerves on edge.

"Those weren’t just reflexes..." Lin paused mid-step, her transformed eyes never leaving his face. "You know me too well, don’t you? Three years observing every one of my movements."

She stopped completely, tilting her head like a bird of prey evaluating its victim.

"What a dedicated student. Although dedicated doesn’t always mean competent."

Ren didn’t respond. He concentrated on keeping his breathing stable while summoning his dagger from his wolverine’s dimensional space. The weapon settled in his left hand with practiced naturalness, the golden crystal gleaming with an internal light that pulsed in rhythm with his accelerated heartbeat.

The weight felt perfect in his grip. Balanced. Deadly.

Lin’s eyes immediately fixed on the weapon, and she showed genuine surprise for the second time in their encounter.

"That crystal density..." She stopped after half a step, examining the dagger without lowering her guard. "Did you pay Isaac several million for a new upgrade again? You had said it was too expensive before, but I see now... When you decide to stop being stingy to become stronger, you really let everything go."